Demonbreun's Cave is a cave in

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which is listed on the

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(NRHP) in 1979. The cave was named after a

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named

Timothy Demonbreun Jacques-Timothée Boucher, Sieur de Montbrun (; 23 March 1731 – October 1826), anglicized as Timothy Demonbreun, was a French-Canadian fur trader, a Lieutenant in the American Revolution, and Lieutenant-Governor of the Illinois Territory. H ...

History

There is a large crack in the facade along the

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which is named for

. The cave was originally a home for Demonbreun in an area of Tennessee which was home to the indigenous

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tribe. He used the cave for a short time because it was near a plethora of

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s. The cave appears to be a crack in the rocks along the Cumberland River: today there are steel bars across the entrance. It is approximately one mile upriver from Nashville on the right river bank. The cave was listed on the

in July 1979. It was first explored between 1750 and 1799.

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Video – Exploring Demonbreun Cave, Nashville's first residence
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