WELCOME TO

MELROSE CIVIL WAR CAVERNS

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MORE THAN A MUSEUM … A TIME CAPSULE

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Thanks to the unique protection that the caverns provide from the effects of time and the elements, your tour of the caverns allows you to see this historic site in much the same condition that Union soldiers would have experienced over 150 years ago.

WHAT YOU’LL WITNESS

 

You’ll tour the caverns as part of a small, personally guided tour.  Each group is never more that 20 guests.  You’ll enter through a side entrance and move into the chambers used during the Civil War.

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You walk through the very places where the soldiers lived, ate and slept.  You’ll see where they stored their provisions and how they moved  them up and down between the caverns and

the surface.

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You’ll see beautiful

rock formations, but

more importantly,

over 100 names and

drawings that were

etched or written
by the soldiers

themselves.