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I am the 1st cousin 10 generations removed of Joseph Doan. I've research my family on and off for years. I sadly no longer live in PA. Thank you for the videos. I miss those hills!
I found your channel about a month ago and liked and subscribed right away . I’m from Somerset Co. PA. Love what your doing and watch ya every day. Keep up the great work love it!
Dents run gold? Cant wait for the video! My father told me the story back in the mid 70s! Lol Really stirred up my interests when the fbi and finders keepers searched dents run and or did an actual dig this past winter. Everything has been hush hush ever since!
I have been starring at this location for 20 years as I live in the valley from flat rock. Been to this location. Quite a hike. Plenty of rattle snakes in the area. Some black bear and mountain lions rumored to be in the area. Be careful there.
Maybe they built the upper springhouse in the mouth of the cave. That might be why there's a door on it. I like your beard. It's nice that you keep it neat.
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hey woods man you may have stumbled upon cave, at time stamp 805 is picture and compare that with it overlayed on video at 1246-1305 the outcropping and tree placement especially the bigger tree left side of rock cropping is almost similar to old picture, just have to get a different angle. just a heads up if you ever go back. would love to receive grid coordinates so i can run a metal detector, might find some treasure.
Is it possible that the upper building with the green door is covering the cave? The spring would be near it (inside or below it in the other building). The closed door would prevent others from exploring it.
I got few places in Blair county I've always find artifacts in if your ever in Blair county id be glad show you some cool areas and i know a place had done walls asking a path that got washed out but some of its still there..
Colonel Denning state park is currently under going extensive renovations. The campground is closed all season and the picinic area where the flat Rock trail begins is closed. The trail relocation is not permanent.
Steel Mountain, Blair County PA...Lewis’s cave. It’s a local story that everyone knows around these parts. My grandfather said his grandfather talked about it! Located somewhere near the old portage national RR
There is a Davey Lewis's cave in Bedford pa down near Bedford Springs resort. Al old timer told me about it decades ago. He said that Davey Lewis robbed a bunch of banks around here also and hid in the cave. He said that they never did recover the loot that he stole. Local Police supposedly went back in roughly 4 miles searching for him but got stuck. It's supposed to come out near the Bedford Enbridge LP pumping station which is 12 miles to the south. Me, my brother and a friend explored a small part of it back in the early 90s in the Fall. Warning it is an ACTIVE Black Bear den in the late fall to mid Spring. The crazy thing is If you look closely on Google maps Satellite view you can clearly see the cave starting at Davey Lewis's cave entrance that continues down the ridge at-least a few miles. Looks like a depression caused by a large crack in the Granite. The trees along this line are more of a Green/Brown shade compared to the rest which makes it stick out fairly well on Google Maps. www.google.com/maps/place/Davey+Lewis'+Cave/@39.9968474,-78.5032386,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xe64b458490dca452!8m2!3d39.9968474!4d-78.5032386
On his death bed he told that he has buried some of his stolen loot in a cave along Forbes road. He escaped from the authorities on more than 1 occasion. He knew the PA cave systems better than anyone.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF DAVID LEWIS, THE ROBBER AND COUNTERFEITER CHAPTER VI, PAGES 68,69 We remained all that day in a rye field, and at night pursued our course to Doubling Gap. Near this place is a cave in the cleft of the mountain, formed by a projecting rock, and here we remained for several days. Statement of R. M., still living in Doubling Gap in 1853. - " When Lewis was here he generally concealed himself in the cave up the Gap. Some rods above the cave is a beautiful spring that breaks out more than half way up the mountain, which is about sixteen hundred feet high. I frequently visited, and sometimes stayed with him at the cave. We had the stream running from the spring brought to the mouth of the cave. Everything was so comfortably arranged in and about the cave, that it was quite a comfortable home. I remained about the Gap and cave some six or eight months, with the exception of a few short intervals. A friend named K lived in the hollow at the sulfur spring, in a small house that he built, and which we called our tavern. We could see his door from the cave; and having an understanding with "our host," we could always tell when there was any danger, as on such occasions he would hang out a red flag. If all was clear, and it was considered safe to come down, a white flag was hung out. There were some persons in the valley who were our friends; one particularly, who was an endless talker, and sometimes talked too much. Lewis was a great favorite with the ladies. Some of them used to furnish us with the comforts of life, and several times visited us at the cave. We had a number of little parties at the tavern, and had great times. A number of the mountain ladies would come, and some of the men, and we would every now and then have a dance. This was the way we carried on whenever Lewis was here. The cave was neatly fitted up, and would accommodate five of us comfortably; there was just that number of us acting together that stayed at the cave. We did not rob in the neighborhood of the Gap, except to get such things as were necessary for us to live on. We lived on what we got in this way, and what was brought to us, I shall never forget the kindness of the people."
Maybe the cave you're looking for is INSIDE the spring house with the locked, green door and that's why a mere spring house is so secured. Do you have any idea who built the spring houses, when and why? Kind of odd just to come into a woods and build two spring houses especially so close together.
The building to the left of the trail is the springhouse. I have opened the door with a key furnished by Doubling Gap Center. The spring comes out of some rocks, but no cave. The building on the right of the trail is a reservoir. The same key unlocked the metal door on top of it. The water looks pretty deep.
