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Cave In Rock Ferry
Cave In Rock Ferry
Cave In Rock Ferry
Cave In Rock Ferry
Cave In Rock Ferry
Cave In Rock Ferry
Cave In Rock Ferry
Cave In Rock Ferry
Cave In Rock Ferry
Cave In Rock Ferry
Cave In Rock Ferry
Cave In Rock Ferry
Cave In Rock Ferry
Cave In Rock Ferry
Cave In Rock Ferry
Phone:
(270) 965-5015

Address:
Canal St, Cave in Rock, IL

Cave-In-Rock is a village in Hardin County, Illinois, United States. Its principal feature and tourist attraction is nearby Cave-In-Rock, on the banks of the Ohio River. In 1816, the earliest known permanent white settlers arrived and started building a town near the cave. The town was originally known as Rock and Cave, Illinois, with a post office under this name. On October 24, 1849, the town was officially renamed Cave-In-Rock. Cave-In-Rock was incorporated as a village in 1901. The population was 318 at the 2010 census.Beginning in the 1790s, Cave-in-Rock became a refuge stronghold for frontier outlaws, on the run from the law which included river pirates and highwaymen Samuel Mason and James Ford, tavern owner/highwayman Isaiah L. Potts, serial killers/bandits the Harpe brothers, counterfeiters Philip Alston, Peter Alston, John Duff, Eson Bixby, and the Sturdivant Gang, and the post-American Civil War bandit, Logan Belt.
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