The Hall City Cave is a limestone cave system near Hayfork, California, United States. Exploration was documented in 1903, with a Permian age ammonite fossil discovered.
A cavern in the Hall City Cave contains a deep shaft of water.
The Hall City Cave was a sacred place for the Nor-el-muk and other Wintu Native Americans. Edith Van Allen Murphy interviewed a long-surviving Wintu woman named Lucy; the papers are kept at the Held-Poage Museum in Ukiah, California in the Estle Beard Notes, box 2, Notebook g, p 15
Treasure
The cave is purported to contain a treasure consisting of $40,000 in gold. The story goes that two miners carrying the gold were ambushed and murdered by two natives. The natives were tracked down by a posse who demanded to be told the location of the gold. The natives stated that they had dropped the gold in a water-filled shaft at the back of the cave. However, there appears to be no newspaper reports of this particular ambush and murders, though there is a report of two miners being murdered and the gold being buried on one of the river flats of the upper Trinity River.
In 2012, a DIY open-source remotely operated vehicle (OpenROV) was used to explore the shaft.
References
- Irwin, William (1972). "Terranes of the Western Paleozoic and Triassic Belt in the Southern Klamath Mountains, California" (PDF). Geological Survey Research: C106. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- Massey, Peter; Wilson, Jeanne; Titus, Angela (1 August 2006). California Trails North Coast Region. Adler Publishing. p. 72. ISBN 978-1930193222.
- Genzoli, Andrew (13 July 1968). "The Hall City Cave Story". The Times Standard. Eureka, California. p. 9. Retrieved 11 May 2019 – via newspapers.com.
External links
- Coordinates: 40°24′41″N 123°00′43″W / 40.41139°N 123.01194°W / 40.41139; -123.01194
- Remotely Operated Vehicle exploration by OpenROV
- Cave diving the Hall City Cave by Dave McCracken
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