Horse Cave, Kentucky This article is about the town/city in Kentucky.
Horse Cave, Kentucky Downtown Horse Cave, December 2006, looking Eastward down Main Street/HWY-218.
Downtown Horse Cave, December 2006, looking Eastward down Main Street/HWY-218.
Location of Horse Cave, Kentucky Location of Horse Cave, Kentucky View from inside Hidden River Cave at the American Cave Museum in Horse Cave, Kentucky Horse Cave is a home rule-class town/city in Hart County, Kentucky, United States.
According to Enumeration data, the populace of Horse Cave was 2,311 in 2010. The landowner donated territory for an L&N station in 1858 on the provision that it be titled after close-by Horse Cave. The improve around the station advanced quickly, so that a postal service was erected in 1860 and the town/city was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1864. The cave for which the town/city is titled is positioned on the south side of Main Street.
One is that Native Americans[which?] or outlaws hid horses in the cave; another is that an early carriage may have lost a horse when it fell into the opening by accident; a third reason involves the 19th-century use of "horse" as slang for anything big or huge, related to a similar use of the Swedish hoss.
The cave has also been known as Hidden River Cave, for an underground stream positioned inside. That stream was used to power a dynamo and, for a while in the late 19th century, Horse Cave was the only town/city in Kentucky apart from Louisville and Ashland to have electric lights. Around World War I, the only air-conditioned tennis courts in the world were positioned near the entrance of the cave. The stream also provided the town's waterworks but mistaken evolution caused raw sewage to seep into the water and forced the closure of the cave for fifty years.
The town changed its name to Caverna in 1869 but the inability to change the name of the barns station prompted the improve to reconsider and restore the name Horse Cave in 1879. Owing to its early rail connection, Horse Cave was a primary center of agricultural commerce for Hart, Metcalfe, Green, and Barren counties since the 1870s.
Tourist attractions include Kentucky Down Under/Kentucky Caverns, Hidden River Cave/American Cave Museum, and the close-by Mammoth Cave National Park.
Civil War Days are an annual tourist event, amid which time parades down Main Street and reenactments of the Battle of Rowlett's Station between Horse Cave and Munfordville are staged.
A small-town theatre formerly known as the Horse Cave Theatre and/or the Kentucky Repertory Theatre once directed in Horse Cave but is no longer in business.
Horse Cave was the place of birth of Jack Robert Thompson (September 4, 1893), the father of noted author and journalist Hunter S.
Horse Cave is positioned at 37 10 34 N 85 54 22 W (37.176230, -85.906143). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.0 square miles (7.8 km2), all land.
A large bamboo research station is north of Horse Cave on U.S.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 21.8% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 26.4% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 20.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $21,134, and the median income for a family was $28,026.
Clarence "Cave" Wilson, Harlem Globetrotter Team Captain List of caves in the United States Kentucky League of Cities.
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Municipalities and communities of Hart County, Kentucky, United States Bonnieville Horse Cave Munfordville
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