Smoke Hole Cave
Inscription
On Smoke Hole Knob (300 yards west), overlooking this site, is Smoke Hole Cave with its circular chamber, forty feet high and fifteen feet in diameter, resembling an inverted hornet's nest, tapering to a natural chimney or "smoke hole". Its use by Indian tribes and early settlers as a place to "smoke cure" meats gave the name of Smoke Hole to the cave and to this twenty-mile picturesque canyon.
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More markers in Pendleton
West Virginia (Pendleton County)/Virginia
"The Mountain State"-western part of the Commonwealth of Virginia until June 20, 1863.
Pendleton County/Randolph County
Formed in 1788 from Hardy, Augusta, Rockingham.
West Virginia (Pendleton County)/Virginia
"The Mountain State"--western part of the Commonwealth of Virginia until June 20, 1863.
Smoke Hole
Smoke Hole, a rugged canyon formed by the South Branch of the Potomac River, extends eighteen miles south to U.S. 220.
Crags-Caverns
Northwest-Seneca Rocks, overlooking old Seneca Trail or Warriors' Path; Champe Rocks; Germany Valley and Seneca Caverns.