The cave has a lot of information about it that is not found in the other pages of this site.  We are going to highlight a few of these and only a few:

 1.  There was an Indian tribe called the Fierce Ones that once lived in the cave. These were believed to be giants.  There home was actually in the Cranberry Glaze area.  The cave was used during their hunting trips for lodging. 

 2.  When the sloth bones were found, the bones of a human nature kind were also found. According to Jefferson, they were much larger than the bones of humans of that time.

 3.   The cave was used during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 for the mining of salt petre for gun powder.

 4.  The cave was a church house for the confederate soldiers.

 5.  There is a Civil Defense shelter in the cave.

 6.  The limekiln on the grounds of the cave is the one and only of its kind in the state.

 7.  The cave had the first electricity in the community.  It actually had the Thomas Edison light bulbs which was  ran from an old Delco generator and 73 back up batteries.

 8. There are a lot of anastomosis in the cave from things that had died inside the cave when the cave was being formed by water.

 9.  Robert E. Lee and family traveled through the cave many times while staying at the Greenbrier prior to the Civil War and after the War of 1812.

10.  The stage coach used during the stage coach tours in 1822 is owned by the Greenbrier, whether they still own it is unknown to us at the present time.

11.  The Route 63 which is traveled to get to the cave is the old Salt Sulphur Turnpike and was a toll road.

12.  The cave has lots of writings that have never been deciphered and probably never will.