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* Glasgow Junction, for its location at a junction between the former Louisville and Nashville Railroad main line and a branch to Glasgow, Kentucky ( the Glasgow Railway ), and also the Mammoth Cave Railroad.
Cave Junction, incorporated in 1948, is a city in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.
Cave Junction is located in the Illinois Valley, where, starting in the 1850s, the non-native economy depended on gold mining.
As timber income has since declined, Cave Junction is attempting to compensate with tourism and as a haven for retirees.
Cave Junction, originally known as Cave City, was established in 1926 on land donated by Elwood Hussey.
Among the other names suggested was " Cave Junction ", which was adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1936 with the post office being renamed the same year.
The locality was incorporated as Cave Junction in 1948, and is the only incorporated area in the Illinois Valley.
In 1950 Cave Junction had a population of 283, which decreased to 248 in 1960 and increased to 415 in 1970.
A number of wildfires have threatened Cave Junction over the years.
Numerous residents of Cave Junction responded by evacuating.
This fire threatened Cave Junction, Kerby, Selma and a number of Northern California communities.
Ultimately, the Biscuit Fire lasted 120 days, burned in southern Oregon and northern California, and destroyed four homes and nine outbuildings in the Cave Junction area.
In 2003, a wildfire destroyed a home in Cave Junction.
Cave Junction is located on U. S. Route 199 at its junction with Oregon Route 46.
Cave Junction has an average low of in January and high of in July.
As of 2007, Josephine County Sheriff volunteers man a sub station in Cave Junction, and the Sheriff's Office has plans to begin a pilot program in the City Hall building, staffed by volunteers, that will include three temporary holding cells and the ability to take incident reports.
One timber mill remains in Cave Junction, Rough & Ready Lumber Co., located six miles ( 10 km ) south of town.
In 2006, Cave Junction was awarded the Great Strides Award by the Northwest Area Foundation for the IVCDO's efforts to reduce long-term poverty.
Cave Junction has a number of points of interest, including a museum, a zoo, and a resort consisting of treehouses.
It also has a number of historic sites, many related to gold mining, as well as an Oregon state park and a national monument, all located in the greater Cave Junction area.
Each year Cave Junction features an ArtWalk on the second Friday of each month, except during the winter, with the city's businesses exhibiting various types of art such as pottery, iron art, music and fire dancing.
Located about southeast of Cave Junction, in Takilma, Oregon, is the home of the Out ' n ' About Treehouse Treesort, a multi-treehouse resort run by Michael Garnier using Garnier limbs.
Great Cats World Park is located a few miles south of Cave Junction.
Several vineyards and wineries are located near Cave Junction, including Bridgeview Vineyards, Foris Vineyards Winery, and Bear Creek Winery which are all discussed in Fodor's 2004 book " Oregon Wine Country.

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Cave dwelling amphibians normally hunt by smell and some salamanders seem to have learned to recognize immobile prey even when it has no smell.
Evidence for this has been found in Sibudu Cave, South Africa and the compound glues used were made from plant gum and red ochre.
Clearwater Cave, for example, has one of the world's longest underground rivers.
Cave paintings, artifacts and other archaeological evidence indicate that there has been continuous habitation for some 8, 000 years.
Cheddar Gorge, including Cox's Cave, Gough's Cave and other attractions, has become a tourist destination, attracting about 500, 000 visitors per year.
Dr. Cave has inserted it at length in his life of St. Cyril.
Over the past few decades, new information about the revolt has come to light, from the discovery of several collections of letters, some possibly by Bar Kokhba himself, in the Cave of Letters overlooking the Dead Sea.
However, because April 21 is the only date for Rome's foundation upon which all the legends agree, it has been recently argued that Septimontium celebrated the first federations among Roman hills: a similar federation was, in fact, celebrated by the Latins at Cave, Italy, or at Monte Cavo ( in Castelli ).
Gower has many caves, including Paviland Cave and Minchin Hole Cave.
Dunbar Cave is also reported to have been mined for saltpeter during the Mexican War, but commercial development has erased any evidence of this mining.
Montgomery County lies in a region of well-developed karst topography and has a cave system named Dunbar Cave.
The annual festival has also been a launching platform for many Australian artists, with various acts performing on the tour multiple times, such as Silverchair, Powderfinger, You Am I, The Living End, Jebediah, Grinspoon, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kisschasy, and Wolfmother.
The caves at Fairy Cave Quarry were formed mainly by the erosive action of water flowing beneath the water-table at considerable pressure ( so called ' phreatic ' development ), but as the water table has fallen many of the caves now lie well above it and the system now contains a variety of cave formations ( stalagmites, stalactites and calcite curtains ) which in their extent and preservation are amongst the best in Britain.
In 2005, he released his first album, Songs from the Crystal Cave, which has a mix of pop, world, country and blues music.
Australia has produced a wide variety of rock and popular music, from the internationally renowned work of the Bee Gees, AC / DC, INXS, Nick Cave, Savage Garden, the Seekers, or pop diva Kylie Minogue to the popular local content of John Farnham, Jimmy Barnes or Paul Kelly.
However, by reference to the passage in 1 Samuel mentioned above, it has come to mean someone who is plotting against the established leadership of a political party or other group, a group of such plotters being called a " Cave of Adullam ".
The rest of the island has few surface streams ; nevertheless, rainwater saturates the soil to produce underground channels such as the famous Coles Cave.
The cave has a surveyed length of 4. 4 miles, making it the second longest cave in East Tennessee and number 177 on the USA Long Cave List.
The county has extensive cave systems including Squire Boone Caverns and the Binkley Cave System and smaller, highly decorated caves such as Jewel Box and Devil's Graveyard caves.
Historically, Horse Cave has been a major center of agricultural commerce for Hart County, Metcalfe County, Green County, and the northeastern part of Barren County since at least the 1870s.
Modern technology has been utilised to show visitors the normally inaccessible interior of Bat Cave, where thousands of bats breed each year.
Cave Spring has historic homes and buildings from its early years such as the 1867 Presbyterian Church, 1880 train depot, and 19th century hotels and boarding houses.
The biggest, referred to as Cathedral Cave or Temple Cave, has a very high ceiling and features ornate Hindu shrines.

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