Horse Cave is a small town located in the heart of Kentucky’s karst country, also home to Mammoth Cave. The city derives its name from a large cave system that can be found literally on Main Street in the center of town.. Known now as Hidden River Cave, cave has been at times the city’s water supply, source of electricity and a dumping ground for waste. Tours were offered from 1912-1943, until the increasing pollution and World War II led to a halt in tourism. And it wasn’t for another 50 years that interest in the cave returned, and the American Cave Conservation Association (ACCA) took on the task of rehabilitating the cave, In 1992 the first phase of the current museum and cave tours was developed. And today thousands of visitors come to the cave to enjoy the interesting geology of the karst regions of Kentucky. The cave boasts the longest underground suspension bridge in a cave system.
A view of a smoothbore bronze cannon at the Chickamuga Civil War battlefield. The Battle of Chickamauga was fought between September 18-20, 1863, between the Union Army commanded by Major General William Rosecrans, and the Confederate Army commanded by General Braxton Bragg. The Battle was a major defeat for the Union forces, with more than 35,000 troops killed, wounded or declared missing/captured from both sides.
The Coat of Arms Flag for Bern, Switzerland, displays a black bear (the city’s namesake), on red and yellow, with black fur, and a red tongue and claws. The flag comes from the founding legend of Bern, where Duke Berthold V of Zähringen declared the city would be named after the first animal he encounted in the forest that was to be cleared to make way for the city. The use of the bear as a symbol for the city dates back as 1224 where it was used on seals for the marking of official government documents.
