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Unincorporated area in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Mammoth Cave became a tourist attraction in the 1840s, utilizing enslaved labor for the purpose of tours and site maintenance. The first post office in Mammoth Cave was established on December 23, 1842, with Archibald Miller serving as postmaster.

Bibliography

Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 186.
Horton H. Hobbs III, et al, eds.,Mammoth Cave: A Human and Natural History (New York: Springer International Publishing, 2017), 39-62.
USGS: Earth Explorer, "Mammoth Cave, Kentucky,"https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on December 8, 2020).

Citation

Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281617 (November 12, 2026).

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Daniel W. Lindsey to Edward K. Owsley
1865-03-13

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