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.

( Larry E. Matthews, " Dunbar Cave: The Showplace of the South ", 2011, ISBN 978-1-879961-41-8, 240 pages.

Montgomery County lies in a region of well-developed karst topography and has a cave system named Dunbar Cave.

Dunbar Cave is the centerpiece of Dunbar State Park, which encompasses approximately 110 acres and is one of the most visited units in the Tennessee State Park System.

Dunbar Cave

Dunbar Cave was explored by prehistoric Indians.

( Larry E. Matthews, " Dunbar Cave ", 2005, ISBN 1-879961-22-9 ).

( Jan F. Simek, Joseph C. Douglas, and Amy Wallace, " Ancient Cave Art at Dunbar Cave State Natural Area ", Tennessee Conservationist Magazine, September / October 2007, pages 24 – 26 ).

Dunbar Cave State Natural Area was established in 1973 from a recreational area the state had purchased from Mrs. McKay King.

When a Republican was elected governor of Tennessee over two decades later, one of the first controversial decisions Winfield Dunn made as governor was to purchase Dunbar Cave, a large cave located near Clarksville, Tennessee that had previously been used as a summertime entertainment venue prior to the advent of air conditioning and owned by Acuff, for a state park.

Dunbar Cave State Park is a 110 acre ( 450, 000 m² ) park in Clarksville, Tennessee, situated around Dunbar Cave.

Dunbar Cave is the 280th largest cave complex in the world, stretching 8. 067 miles ( 13 km ) inward.

The entrance to Dunbar Cave was inhabited by local prehistoric peoples for thousands of years before settlers arrived.

Dunbar Cave was purchased by McKay King in 1963.

King operated the Dunbar Cave property until his death in 1971.

In 1973, the State of Tennessee, under then Governor Winfield Dunn, purchased Dunbar Cave from Mrs. McKay King, to become a State Natural Area.

On January 15, 2005 park specialist Amy Wallace, geologist and author Larry E. Matthews, local historian Billy Frank Morrison, and history professor Joe Douglas discovered Native American petroglyphs in Dunbar Cave.

Their existence was announced to the public by the State of Tennessee on July 29, 2006, during the Second Annual Dunbar Cave Day, held at the Park.

Although Dunbar Cave only has a small bat population, it is still closed from November to March to allow the bats undisrupted hibernation.

Hardly a window has been broken since Dunbar first was opened ( and vandalism in schools is a major problem in many slum areas ).

The battle of Dunbar was a crushing defeat for the Scottish Covenanters

This proved to be Dunbar ; the nearest shrine was 10 miles distant at Whitekirk.

According to Henry Petroski, transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau discovered how to make a good pencil out of inferior graphite using clay as the binder ; this invention was prompted by his father's pencil factory in Concord, which employed graphite found in New Hampshire in 1821 by Charles Dunbar.

Comyn had been much more resolute in his opposition to the English ; he was the most powerful noble in Scotland and was related to many more powerful nobles both within Scotland and England including relatives that held the earldoms of Buchan, Mar, Ross, Fife, Angus, Dunbar and Strathearn.

According to the first, on 9 November 1966 Lennon went to the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar.

It originated as the Buick Auto-Vim and Power Company in 1899, an independent internal combustion engine and motor-car manufacturer, and was later incorporated as the Buick Motor Company on May 19, 1903, by Scottish born David Dunbar Buick in Detroit, Michigan.

He was born David Henry Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts, into the " modest New England family " of John Thoreau ( a pencil maker ) and Cynthia Dunbar.

The boy was raised and known as Bobby Dunbar throughout the rest of his life.

However, DNA tests on Dunbar's son and nephew revealed the two were not related, thus establishing that the boy found in 1912 was not Bobby Dunbar, whose real fate remains unknown.

John de Warenne had won a victory over the aristocracy of Scotland at the Battle of Dunbar and his belief that he was now dealing with a rabble proved that he had greatly underestimated the Scottish forces.

Cuthbert may have been from the neighbourhood of Dunbar at the mouth of the Firth of Forth in modern-day Scotland, though the lives record he was fostered as a child near Melrose.

At the Battle of Dunbar, Scottish resistance was effectively crushed.

The earliest account of the tree was given by William Dunbar, a Scottish explorer, in his narrative of a journey made in 1804 from St. Catherine's Landing on the Mississippi River to the Ouachita River.

The Battle of Dunbar was the only significant field action in the campaign of 1296.

The next objective in the campaign was the Earl of March's castle at Dunbar, a few miles up the coast from Berwick.

There is little evidence to suggest that Dunbar was anything other than an action between two bodies of mounted men-at-arms ( armoured cavalry ).

For example, towards the end of the 15th century William Dunbar was using Erse to refer to Gaelic and in the early 16th century Gavin Douglas was using Scottis as a name for the Lowland vernacular.

The Queen's arrival was celebrated by the poet William Dunbar in poems including The Thrissil and the Rois, Gladethe, thoue Queyne of Scottis Regioun, and the song Now Fayre, Fayrest of Every Fayre.

Among their grievances was the King's failure to promptly pay the soldiers ' wages, his favour towards Dunbar, his demand that the Percies hand over their Scottish prisoners, his failure to put an end to Owain Glyn Dŵr's rebellion through a negotiated settlement, his increasing promotion of his son Prince Henry's military authority in Wales, and his failure to ransom the Percies ' kinsman, Henry Percy's brother-in-law, Sir Edmund Mortimer ( 1376 – 1409 ), whom the Welsh had captured in June 1402, and who had a claim to the crown as the grandson of Lionel, 1st Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of King Edward III.

In 1955, the first African-American President of the World Alliance of YMCAs, Mr. Charles Dunbar Sherman from Liberia, was elected.

In 1913, the Dunbar Elementary school, named after Paul Lawrence Dunbar, was established for the black children of South Kinloch.