Efforts are underway at Dunbar Cave State Park to preserve and restore pieces of the park’s long and varied history.
Park employees are working on multiple restoration projects. They just completed restoration work on a 1930s-era ticket booth. They’re now focusing on the historic arches, supporting the park’s bandstand. The work is part of a broader effort to preserve the site’s past while ensuring future generations can continue to enjoy it.
According to Park Manager Preston Williams, Dunbar Cave’s history stretches back at least 10,000 years. The cave served as a shelter for Indigenous Peoples and later became home to a community of formerly enslaved people following the Civil War. “There’s so much history here to preserve and protect,” Williams said…