Hall City Cave

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.^[1]

A cavern in the Hall City Cave contains a deep shaft of water.^[2]

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

References

^ Irwin, William (1972). "Terranes of the Western Paleozoic and Triassic Belt in the Southern Klamath Mountains, California" (PDF). Geological Survey Research: C106. 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.

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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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[1] Irwin, William (1972). "Terranes of the Western Paleozoic and Triassic Belt in the Southern Klamath Mountains, California" (PDF). Geological Survey Research: C106. Retrieved 3 July 2014.

[2] Massey, Peter; Wilson, Jeanne; Titus, Angela (1 August 2006). California Trails North Coast Region. Adler Publishing. p. 72. ISBN 978-1930193222.

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