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Indian Echo Caverns is an historic show cave in Derry Township, Dauphin County near Hershey and Hummelstown, Pennsylvania in the United States. [1] [2] The caverns were mentioned in an article by the Philadelphia Philosophical Society as early as the 1700s.
It has more recently been known as Indian Echo Caverns and remains open to the public. Today, William Wilson is perhaps better known in Dauphin County than in Chester, as his story is still heard frequently at Indian Echo Caverns, where it provides a dramatic conclusion to the guided tours presented daily. For many years the Caverns exhibited a ...
Elizabeth Wilson ( c. 1762 – January 3, 1786) was an American whose execution by hanging for the purported murder of her children in southeastern Pennsylvania during the immediate post-Revolutionary War period made her a folklore figure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Although her responsibility for the children's deaths ...
David "Robber" Lewis. David Lewis, known as "Davy" or "Robber" Lewis (March 4, 1790 –July 12, 1820 [1] ), was an American criminal who became known as the " Robin Hood of Pennsylvania" for his style of crime. Lewis was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He began his criminal career as a counterfeiter, but eventually turned to highway robbery.
Coordinates: 40°11′32″N. The Olentangy Indian Caverns are a series of caves, natural passages and rooms occupying three different levels. The caverns were formed millions of years ago by an underground river that cut through the limestone rock. They were used by the Wyandotte Indians as a refuge from the weather and from their enemies the ...
1213972 [5] Website. www .hummelstown .net. Hummelstown is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,535 as of the 2020 census. [6] It is part of the Harrisburg – Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area . Originally named Fredrickstown, the town was established in 1762. [7]
In 1972, the venture failed when Hurricane Agnes caused floods throughout the region; Tytoona, at that point called Indian River Caverns, was completely filled with water, and all the steps, railings, and pathways were washed away into the cave. The remains of this failure make up much of the logjam which lies in a bend in the cave, about 122 ...
Indian Echo Caverns, located 5 miles north of the borough limits, is one of the main attractions near Middletown. The caverns were originally used by the Susquehannock tribe, who lived and hunted in the nearby area until their population and authority was quickly decimated by the spread of infectious disease in the late 1670s, leading to their ...