Talk:Dunbar Cave State Park
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Under "History of the cave", the current description of Dunbar Cave State Park states that:
"In 1973, the State of Tennessee, under then Governor Gordon Browning, purchased the land from (Roy) Acuff, and classified it a State Park."
According to my research, this is incorrect. Documents on file at the State Natural Area Program office in Nashville, Tennessee and newspaper clippings on file at the Dunbar Cave State Natural Area Office in Clarksville, Tennessee, state that Dunbar Cave was purchased from Mrs. McKay King in 1973 and was designated a State Natural Area.
For further information on Dunbar Cave, I would refer you to a new book: "Dunbar Cave: The Showplace of the South" which was written by Larry E. Matthews and published May, 2005 by the National Speleological Society.
Submitted by Larry E. Matthews on October 10, 2005.
