Laurel Caverns
Laurel Caverns is the largest cave in the Pennsylvania, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by volume and area. Located in the community of Farmington, Pennsylvania, Farmington, it sits on the Chestnut Ridge near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Uniontown, roughly southeast of Pittsburgh. Initially an unregulated :Wild caves, wild cave that was known by locals and word of mouth as "Dulany's Cave" (alternate spelling: "Dulaney's Cave") during the early 1900s, it was owned, during the 1930s, by Norman Cale and his brother, and then later by Cale and his wife, Helen, who opened it to the general public as a show cave on July 1, 1964, and marketed it as "the caverns in the clouds". History and notable features Named after Thomas Dulany, the early nineteenth-century owner of the land where the cave was located and first achieved local prominence, Dulany Cave (alternate spelling: "Dulaney's Cave") was reportedly first explored on September 11, 1816, by a party of six men. Headed by John A. Paxton of ...
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Farmington, Pennsylvania
Farmington is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Wharton Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located along U.S. Route 40, the National Road, about southeast of Pittsburgh, and is the closest settlement to Fort Necessity National Battlefield. It is also home to Historic Summit Inn Resort, the 4-star Nemacolin Woodlands Resort and the New Meadow Run and Spring Valley Bruderhofs, two of a group of international Christian communities with about 200 members in each. As of the 2010 census the population of Farmington was 767. Geography Farmington is located in northeastern Wharton Township at geographical coordinates 39° 48′ 28″ North, 79° 34′ 1″ West (39.807220, -79.566154). Via US Route 40, Uniontown, the Fayette County seat, is to the northwest, and Cumberland, Maryland, is to the southeast. Pittsburgh is to the northwest via US 40 and Pennsylvania Route 51. The U.S. Postal Service ZIP code for Farmington is 15437 ...
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