DeSoto Caverns - Childersburg, AL
N 33° 18.357 W 086° 16.672
16S E 567225 N 3685438
DeSoto Caverns was named for the famous Spanish explorer who traveled through the area in 1540.
Waymark Code: WMG62H
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 01/17/2013
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From the Alabama Historical Marker:
"Named for the famous Spanish explorer who traveled through this area in 1540. Over its rich history it offered shelter for native Indians for centuries (a 2000-year-old Woodland Period burial was excavated by archeologists in the mid-1960s), became the first officially recorded cave in the U.S. (1796), and served as a Confederate gunpowder mining site during the Civil War. One of the largest show caves in the southeastern U.S., the main room of the caverns stands 12-stories high and is as large as a football field. The cavern’s onyx-marble stalagmites and stalactites are among the most concentrated accumulations to be found in America."
In addition to the caverns the park offers some 25 attractions including Gemstone Panning, Bow and Arrow Shoot, DeSoto's Cave Wall Climb, DeSoto's Park Express Train, DeSoto's Lost Trail Maze, Wacky Water Golf, DeSoto's Disc Golf Course, and DeSoto's Cave Crawl Box.
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