Tory's Cave (New Milford, Connecticut)

For the cave in New York, see Tory cave (Albany, New York).
For the cave in Vermont, see Tory's Cave (Springfield, Vermont).
Tory's Cave, on the Housatonic Range Trail, near New Milford, Connecticut.

Tory Cave (or Tory's Cave) is a marble solutional cave near New Milford, Connecticut.[1]

While it is of modest size (the big room having enough space for two dozen people) it is said to be the only true cave in Connecticut that is open to the public. Its name is based on a tale from the American Revolution, in which a Tory (a loyalist to the English monarchy) hid in the cave.[2][3][4] The cave is near the Housatonic River.

In 1996, Joe Hurley, writing in the Record Journal, reported that the cave's unique ecology was threatened by blasting from a nearby quarry.[2] The cave is home to a blind shrimp-like amphipod called a Stygobromus.

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  1. ↑ "Woman rescued from New Milford cave". Fox News. 2013-08-13. Retrieved 2013-08-26. Firefighters tell The News-Times of Danbury the woman and a male companion were inside Tory's Cave off Route 7 Monday afternoon when she went into an 8-foot crevice and could not get out.
  2. 1 2 Joe Hurley (1996-06-02). "Creatures lurk in features of Tory's Cave". Record Journal. p. 2. Retrieved 2013-08-26. The cave is alive with creatures like bats and pale-hued cave crickets. The Stugobromus also calls the cave home. The Stugobromus is a blind albine amphipod, or many-footed animal, somewhat like a tiny shrimp.
  3. ↑ Clay Perry (1939). Underground New England. Stephen Daye Press. p. 86. Retrieved 2013-08-26. Connecticut is well stocked with "Indian Caves," all over the state, but only in the extreme northwestern corner does it have true caves, like the Twin Lakes Caves. A true limestone cavern and a beautiful one, is Tory Cave at New Milford.
  4. ↑ "The Speleo Digest". Pittsburgh Grotto Press. 1959. pp. 1–143. Retrieved 2013-08-26. TORT CAVE (Connecticut) Tory Cave is in a sandy limestone. Its most interesting single feature is a series of chimneys, one on top of the other; and what is more, interconnected in some cases by crawlways.

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