THE SNAIL SHELL CAVE

The Snail Shell Cave Road has been mentioned many time in this narrative. The Snail Shell Cave is fairly large and well known by the local residents. Sinking beside and below the road by this name, the cave is located a short distance past the Farris sawmill complex and off to the right. The entrance follows the same circular pattern as does a snail in entering its shell. The cave has never been improved and still lies in its natural beauty with a high rock wall on one side, a gradual slope opposite, and a circular natural rock descent. An underground stream and cavern connects with a smaller cave known as the Nannie Cave several miles distant. For many years this was a place of social gathering and picnic spot for groups of the young and venturesome. Numerous group pictures were taken. Efforts to commercialize have been unsuccessful. During some of the years in the 1920's and 1930's the entire student body of the Rockvale School would visit this cave on the first day of April without permission. Snail_Shell_Cave.JPG