Caves of Knoxville and the Great Smoky Mountains
Contributors: G. Thomas Rea, Editor
Publisher: National Speleological Society
Published: June 2008
Place of publication: Huntsville, AL
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
First sentence: With over 10 million visitors coming every year, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited National Park in the United States.
Description: This book describes fourteen (14) caves located in the vicinity of Knoxville to Bristol that are either currently open to the public or have been open to the public at some point in the past.

The history of each cave is documented from the earliest human use, which may have been by prehistoric peoples in some caves, through the initial settlement in the 1700s, through the mining of saltpeter during the War of 1812 and the Civil War, through the commercial development of the cave.  The book is profusely illustrated with maps, photographs, and commercial brochures and postcards.
Notes: This book contains a Glossary and a very complete Index.
Table of contents: label: Section 1
pagenum: 17
title: The Caves of the Knoxville Area; label: 1
pagenum: 17
title: Cherokee Caverns; label: 2
pagenum: 37
title: English Cave; label: 3
pagenum: 47
title: Gap Cave; label: 4
pagenum: 83
title: Indian Cave; label: 5
pagenum: 105
title: Meredith Cave; label: 6
pagenum: 117
title: New Mammoth Cave; label: Section 2
pagenum: 131
title: The Caves of the Great Smoky Mountains Area; label: 7
pagenum: 131
title: Alum Cave; label: 8
pagenum: 141
title: Forbidden Caverns; label: 9
pagenum: 157
title: Gregorys Cave; label: 10
pagenum: 181
title: The Lost Sea; label: 11
pagenum: 211
title: Tuckaleechee Caverns; label: Section 3
pagenum: 227
title: The Caves of the Bristol Area; label: 12
pagenum: 227
title: Appalachian Caverns; label: 13
pagenum: 239
title: Bristol Caverns; label: 14
pagenum: 253
title: Morrill Cave