Friday, January 20, 2012

Devil's Cave in Harris Hill (Pt 2)

The Niagara County historian had posted a link to an article in the Buffalo News regarding the underground caves in Lockport. That was the necessary boot to the posterior to scan the copies of a file on Devil's Cave in Harris Hill that that had been donated to the Clarence Historical Museum shortly after I had originally written about the cave here on the blog.  Scanner issues were the original problem, then flat-out procrastination...

Even with a new scanner it can be hard to read some of the newspaper articles on this site (click on them to enlarge), so I loaded them on to Flickr also, which has a better "make bigger" feature.

The opening to Devil's Cave was located around the middle circle behind Nativity, and runs from approximately the old stagecoach stop (left) to a sinkhole behind Samuel's Grande Manor (I redrew google map as the one provided didn't scan well). It had been written about in scattered pieces throughout the years, and the articles, along with a personal observation/commentary, are presented here.  Very intriguing!









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3 comments:

  1. JillJanuary 21, 2012 at 12:06 PM

    This was *so* interesting!

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 22, 2012 at 10:46 PM

    That's my grandpa in some of those pictures.

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  3. Bill StatlerFebruary 17, 2022 at 12:08 AM

    A decade late, but thanks for the two Devil's Cave articles. I lived within bicycling distance in the 1960s, but the entrance was sealed up at that time (and just as well, because I'd probably have landed in the bottomless pit otherwise!). I never knew how big that cave was. The "Underground Railroad" link was widely believed and even taught to us in school. Fascinating bit of history if true.

    (Clarence Class of Would-Have-Been-73-Except-We-Moved.)

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