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Exploring Freeland's Cave in Meigs Township, Adams County, Ohio. Freeland's Cave is located on the south side of Turkey Creek. When the cave was resurveyed in 1985 by the Wittenberg University Speleological Society, it was the longest known cave in Ohio. The cave is developed along joints in the dolomite of the Silurian Geologic Period. The photograph was taken by Horton H. Hobbs, III, of Wittenberg University Chapter of the National Speleological Society. This image received an honorable mention in the 1984 Ohio Geology Slide Contest.
Information concerning Freeland's Cave is found in Final Report: Ohio an Assessment of Three Candidate and Two Additional Troglobitic Invertebrate Species for Possible Listing as Federally Endangered or Threatened Species by Horton H. Hobbs, III (Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife, 1996), Item #4483 in Fountain Square Library of Ohio Geological Survey.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Sideways picture of man exploring the inside of a cave. Freeland's Cave in Adams County, Ohio.