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Cave Spring Caverns
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Historic Railpark & Train Museum
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The
Lost River Cave and Valley near Bowling Green, Kentucky is the
only underground boat tour in the region and perhaps the nation,
with a Butterfly Habitat that will amaze and delight you.
Ripley's states that the river is the shortest and deepest in
the world, with a constant 57 degree temperature, allowing you
to fully enjoy the outstanding tour that takes you into a
wondrous world that will astound you. The tour is about 45
minutes, about half on the boat and half walking, but it still
depends on how much you enjoy it and want to just look. Other
activities available at the site include; geocaching, Blue Hole
trails, Lost River mining, wetlands, bird watching stations and
children's activities. Their rock and mineral sluice is perfect
for the whole family to enjoy, grabbing a bag of sluice
materials, you keep whatever treasures you find, whether it be
gemstones or fossils, crystals or emeralds. Some of the
outstanding rocks you might find include; pyrite, garnet,
aventine, quartz, peridot, calcite, sapphire, raspberry quartz,
topaz, rose quartz, obsidian, sodalite, smokey quartz, moon
stone, emeralds, fluorite and amethyst. You might also find
fossils like amber, ammonite, petrified wood, horn coral,
gastropod, shark teeth, trilobite, sponge coral, coral, sea
urchins, orthoceras, crinoids, brachiopod and pelecpod. Along
with beautiful forests, trails, creeks and more. The site has
been excavated by archaeologists from Western Kentucky
University with many cultural relics being discovered. There
have been numerous artifacts discovered here, including one of
the few Dalton points discovered in situ in southeastern
Kentucky by Dr. Jack Schock of the university, and this unusual
spearpoint is dated to some 8000 years ago. It is a rare find
and one that has put Lost River on the maps. These Paleo Indians
made bone tools and started to bury their dead and cremate them,
always traveling in small groups and leaving many treasures
behind for today's explorers and archaeologists to find. Many
have created big shell mounds near the Green River and these
trash heaps are excellent opportunities for the diggers of today
to uncover the materials buried inside and decipher them. The
lost river cave and valley surrounding it have become a
veritable mine of prehistoric relics and bring many visitors
here to just explore the area and see what can be found. 
St.
Joseph Catholic Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky has been around
since 1859 and is one of the oldest churches in the city. Kentucky
was the fifteenth colony and would be the first western star added
to the flag of America after it became a state in 1792, and by 1775,
Catholic pioneers were coming to the region, mostly from Maryland,
to settle and start a new life. The amount of Catholics that had
arrived here by 1808 had become so significant that a bishop,
Benedict Joseph Flaget, was consecrated and started the oldest
inland American diocese of Bardstown in the new nation. The bishop
and his priests would ride horseback to cover the more than 800
miles so that they could minister to their new flock, and in 1841,
the headquarters of the diocese was transferred to Louisville, a
bigger city and growing river port. Soon after, it would become the
railhead of one of the main railroad lines of the country. That
railroad would start construction of a bridge over the Barren River
in 1856, and the village of Bowling Green would became a scene of
much movement and construction as Irish and German Catholic laborers
came to the region. The area became so large that they asked the
bishop, Martin John Spalding, to appoint a priest from them, so he
sent Rev. Joseph DeVries as the missionary pastor of the southern
Kentucky counties. Joseph had come from Gerwen, Holland in 1853 and
was ordained in Kentucky in 1855. The pastor was asked to start a
church and organize the parish for Bowling Green. The story of the
construction of that first frame church is very interesting, as is
the subsequent church and the additions that helped it grow into the
beautiful church it is today. It is a great parish and they are
always ready to welcome someone new to the city and their church,
even if only for a visit during their vacation or trip to Bowling
Green.
Grand Isle, Bowling Green is home to one of the oldest log
cabins in the nation. It is a one and a half story cabin built in
1783 by Jedediah Hyde, Jr. with 14 to 18 inch cedar logs, measuring
Riverview at Hobson Grove is also called the Hobson House or
Riverview, and is the historical house with classical Italianate
architecture that sits in west Bowling Green, Kentucky, in Hobson
Grove Park. It was involved in parts of the Civil War, and is
considered a marvelous example of the Victorian period, and listed
on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The house was
constructed as the home of Atwood Gaines Hobson and his wife, Juliet
"Julia" van Meter Hobson on a small rise and close to the Barren
River, which is how it came to be named riverview. The construction
begin in the 1850s, but had to be interrupted because of the Civil
War starting, and since Atwood and his oldest son were avid Union
supporters they became fearful of the house and property. His oldest
son, William, was made a colonel in the Union army. When the
Confederate troops arrived, under the leadership of Simon Bolivar
Buckner, who had fought with Atwood's brother in the Mexican
American War, Simon agreed to spare the partially constructed house
and had his men put a temporary roof over the basement so they could
use it as a munitions magazine in the winter during 1861 and 1862;
as the city of Bowling Green became the capital of Kentucky for the
Confederacy. After the war, the house would be worked on until it
was finished in 1872 and has many of the Italianate features like
arched windows, a cupola and deep eaves with ornamental brackets.
The house had two parlors with painted ceilings and the Hobsons
added some unique ideas to the house for that period. They placed a
copper-lined wooden collection tank in the attic, attached to the
outside gutters that provided running water for the second floor
water closet. They also added a hole in the ceiling beneath the
cupola, that is often called a oculus, and it became part of the
house's ventilation system. When the eight windows of the
observatory were opened and the windows and doors opened on the
first floor, a vacuum would be created that would pull the hot air
up through the house and out the hole, that way keeping the air
constantly moving in the house and helping it stay cooler; like an
attic fan of today. The family and their descendants would live
there until 1952, with more owners and tenants living there, until
1965. The city considered buying it to put in a golf course, which
meant taking down the house, but a nonprofit called the Hobson House
Association was created and began restoring it to its original
condition. The golf course was built next door and can be seen from
the hill that the house sits on. It was opened for tours in 1972,
and can be visited six days a week.
Beech
Bend Park is located near Bowling Green, Kentucky and is the home to
an automobile race track, campground and amusement park in Warren
county. The park gets its name from a bend in the Barren River, by a
stand of beech trees that can be seen all through the area; which
was used as a picnic area during the 1880s. Charles Garvin bought
the property in the early 1940s and began adding amusements over the
following years, with a pony ride first, then a roller skating rink,
dance hall, bowling center and swimming pool. Sometime after WWII,
Garvin began to add mechanical ride to the park, starting out with a
Ferris wheel bought from the Chicago World's Fair, and racing
started about the same time with motorcycles. Car racing started out
on a 3/8 mile oval track made of dirt, and today, although paved, it
is still the same track underneath; and then in the 1960s, a drag
strip was constructed. The 1960s was when the park reached its
pinnacle, with ten cent gate admissions and then promotions like
County Days that would highlight a county in the area each week.
Carnival style rides were all around, with the famous Wild Mouse
becoming the most popular and midway games like Skeeball and
Fascination being those favorite. The campground evolved over the
years and has over 1000 spaces available for campers, and had been
billed as the world's biggest. That campground had the original
store that would grow into Camping World, a big camping supply
retailer that was started by Garvin's son, David; and a small zoo
appeared. In the 1970s, the park began to see a decline in business,
which could be attributed to more competition from themed parks like
the Opryland USA in Nashville. Garvin's health began to decline as
well, and in 1979, he passed on. The park would close except for the
third party racing facilities that were still under lease, and
eventually the park would be purchased by a group that included
country music singer, Ronnie Milsap; which ran without making any
money from 1981 to 1982 and it closed once more, and ownership
reverting back to Garvin's heirs. Dallas and Alfreda Jones bought
the racetracks in 1984 and started hosting national drag races that
had been sanctioned by the National Hot Rod Association, and they
did good, for the first three years, so the couple bought the rest
of the park that had been overrun by nature. Nothing was done to the
park until the 1990s, and the Joneses started clearing out the park
and began restoring the campground. Then the pool was reopened and
the couple began adding more amusement rides back, almost like
Garvin had done previously. By 2005, the park had over 40 rides, a
water park, big picnic pavilions, restored racing facilities and 500
campground spaces with all the amenities. The race track began
hosting Corvette racing events since it was close to the plant and
the museum, and a yearly NHRA Hot Rod Reunion. More rides were added
over the ensuing years, and in 2009, it debuted the Chance Sea
Dragon ride that had been bought from Michael Jackson's Neverland
Ranch and said to be his favorite ride and in 2010 a big water park
is planned to open. One noteworthy item to mention is that Jim
Varney's first commercial as Ernest P. Worrell was for Beech Bend.
