Howe Caverns Essay, Research Paper

Howe Caverns

Howe Caverns was dicovered back in the spring of 1842 by a man named Lestor

Howe. Now Lestor Howe discovered the cavern by noticing on hot summer days all

of his cows would gather up on the same hillside, in the same spot. He was very

curious why they were doing this, so he went up there to investegate. When he

reach the spot on the hillside he noticed a large hole in the ground, were cold

air was blowing out of. The cows would gather around the hole to cool off. He

started to explore this hole as soon as he got a light and a rope to climb down

into the cavern. This is when Howe Caverns was dicovered.

Several years after Lester Howe discovered the cavern he sarted up a little

buisness giving tour of the cavern. His tours would last 8 hours and you were

giving lunch as part of the tour. These tours ended in 1900 when a cement co.

bought the land of cavern for its rich grade of limestone for making cement.

The cavern didn”t reopen to the public untill 1932, when walkways and lighting

systems were put in.