| Forestville Townsite--Meighan Store | |
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| (U.S. Registered Historic District) | |
| Location: | Co. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A historic district in the United States is a group of buildings properties or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally Hwy. 12 |
| Nearest city: | Preston, Minnesota |
| Architect: | Robert Foster; Felix Meighen |
| Added to NRHP: | April 13, 1973 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 73000976 |
Coordinates: Forestville Mystery Cave State Park is a Minnesota state park. Preston is a city in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of Events 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers Map of State Parks of Minnesota Hold It contains the village of Forestville which has been restored to a nineteenth century appearance. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar The Minnesota Historical Society operates it as a historic site. The Minnesota Historical Society is a private non-profit educational and cultural instutution dedicated to preserving the history of the state of Minnesota. Below ground the park contains Mystery Cave, the longest cave in the state which is open to the public. A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter The park is located near Preston, Minnesota. Preston is a city in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States.
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Mystery Cave
The park is in the Driftless Area, noted for its karst topography, which includes sinkholes and caves. The Driftless Area or Paleozoic Plateau is a region in the American Midwest noted mainly for its deeply carved river valleys Karst topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble Bedrock, usually Carbonate rock such as Limestone A sinkhole, also known as a sink, shake hole, swallow hole, swallet, doline or Cenote, is a natural depression A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter The cave includes stalactites, stalagmites and underground pools, and is a constant 48 degrees Fahrenheit underground. A stalactite ( Greek stalaktites, (Σταλακτίτης from the word for "drip" and meaning "that which drips" is a type of Speleothem A stalagmite (from the Greek stalagma ("Σταλαγμίτης" "drop" or "drip" is a There are over 12 miles of passages in 2 rock layers, encompassing approximately 3,170 acres.
History
About 2 to 5 million years ago there was material deposited as the land was covered intermittantly by shallow seas. Over the eons the alternating deposits of mud and oceanic debris were compressed to form limestone, shale and sandstone layers. Limestone is a Sedimentary rock composed largely of the Mineral Calcite ( Calcium carbonate: CaCO3 Shale (also called mudstone) is a fine-grained Sedimentary rock whose original constituents were Clay minerals or Muds It is characterized by Sandstone is a Sedimentary rock composed mainly of Sand -size Mineral or rock grains. Today, these layers are 1300 feet above sea level. Within the past few years, water eating away at the limestone has created sinkholes and miles of caves. A sinkhole, also known as a sink, shake hole, swallow hole, swallet, doline or Cenote, is a natural depression
Wildlife
The park contains a range of wildlife, from relatively rare species such as glacial snails and timber rattlesnakes to common species such as deer, raccoon, beaver, mink, opossum, woodchuck, four species of squirrels, and red and grey fox. The Iowa Pleistocene Snail ( Discus macclintocki) also known as the Pleistocene disk, is a tiny air-breathing land Snail, a terrestrial Common names timber rattlesnake canebrake rattlesnake banded rattlesnake more. A deer is a Ruminant Mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. The raccoon ( Procyon lotor) (sometimes spelt as racoon) also known as the common raccoon, North American raccoon, northern raccoon Beavers are two primarily nocturnal semi-aquatic species of Rodent, one native to North America and one to Europe There are two living species of " mink," the American Mink and the European Mink. Didelphimorphia is the order of common opossums of the Western Hemisphere. The groundhog ( Marmota monax) also known as the woodchuck land beaver or whistlepig, is a Rodent of the family Sciuridae A squirrel is one of the many small or medium-sized Rodents in the family Sciuridae. A fox is an Animal belonging to any one of about 27 Species (of which only 12 actually belong to the Vulpes genus or 'true foxes' of small There have also been at least 175 species of birds recorded in the park. The South Branch of the Root River contains brown trout, brook trout and rainbow trout. The Root River flows through the Driftless Area of southeastern Minnesota and is a tributary of the Upper Mississippi River. The brown trout ( Salmo trutta morpha fario and S trutta morpha lacustris) and the sea trout ( S The brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, (sometimes called the eastern brook trout, Adirondack coaster lake trout) is a Species of Fish The rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of Salmonid native to tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America
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