A Cave Habitation in Vermont

Extract

This brief description of the site and evidence of occupation is written for the purpose of preserving the data. Considering the rare reference to cave habitations in reports of Eastern activities, this bit of evidence seems worth recording.

Approximately one mile below Carvers Falls, in the valley of the Poultney River, and nine miles from Lake Champlain, the cave entrance is seen as a crevice, open overhead, in an outjutting part of the southern face of a limestone cliff. The opening is near the top of the cliff and at the summit of a talus incline extending into a land-locked pool where once the river was navigable by large boats before historical freshets changed the scene.