Mammoth Cave National Park
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...PARK 52,830 acres (21,396 hectares), central Kentucky, authorized 1926, est. 1941. Located in a hilly...Native American habitation before it was explored by Kentucky pioneers in 1799. During the War of 1812, saltpeter was mined...