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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:38:17 -0500
From: "Harry O. Davis" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Black Cartographer - Mammoth Cave
Sender: "Harry O. Davis" <[log in to unmask]>


A local caver tells me that the name of the black man who first mapped a
portion of Mammoth Cave in 1843 was Stephen Bishop.

Information about Stephen Bishop is available in a variety of sources about
Mammoth Cave.  One is DEPTHS OF THE EARTH - CAVES AND CAVERS OF THE UNITED
STATES by William R. Halliday (Harper & Row, 1966).

A web site, http://www.mammothcave.com/howformd.htm, indicates that Ed
Bishop, a great-nephew of Stephen Bishop, engaged in additional exploration
and mapping in 1908.

Hope this helps.

Harry Davis






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