Tory's Cave (New Milford, Connecticut)

Tory's Cave, on the Housatonic Range Trail, near New Milford, Connecticut.

Tory Cave (or Tory's Cave) is a marble solutional cave near New Milford, Connecticut.^[1]

The big room has enough space for two dozen people. To protect bat colonies, the cave is closed to the public. Its name is based on a tale from the American Revolution, in which a Tory (a loyalist to the English monarchy) hid in the cave.^[2]^[3]^[4] The cave is near the Housatonic River.

In 1996, Joe Hurley, writing in the Record Journal, reported that the cave's unique ecology was threatened by blasting from a nearby quarry.^[2] The cave is home to a blind shrimp-like amphipod called a Stygobromus.

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^ "Woman rescued from New Milford cave". Fox News. 2013-08-13. Retrieved 2013-08-26. Firefighters tell The News-Times of Danbury the woman and a male companion were inside Tory's Cave off Route 7 Monday afternoon when she went into an 8-foot crevice and could not get out.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b Joe Hurley (1996-06-02). "Creatures lurk in features of Tory's Cave". Record Journal. p. 2. Retrieved 2013-08-26. The cave is alive with creatures like bats and pale-hued cave crickets. The Stugobromus also calls the cave home. The Stugobromus is a blind albine amphipod, or many-footed animal, somewhat like a tiny shrimp.
^ Clay Perry (1939). Underground New England. Stephen Daye Press. p. 86. Retrieved 2013-08-26. Connecticut is well stocked with "Indian Caves," all over the state, but only in the extreme northwestern corner does it have true caves, like the Twin Lakes Caves. A true limestone cavern and a beautiful one, is Tory Cave at New Milford.
^ "The Speleo Digest". Pittsburgh Grotto Press. 1959. pp. 1–143. Retrieved 2013-08-26. TORT CAVE (Connecticut) Tory Cave is in a sandy limestone. Its most interesting single feature is a series of chimneys, one on top of the other; and what is more, interconnected in some cases by crawlways.

41°37′N 73°28′W / 41.61°N 73.46°W / 41.61; -73.46

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[Fox2013-08-13-1] "Woman rescued from New Milford cave". Fox News. 2013-08-13. Retrieved 2013-08-26. Firefighters tell The News-Times of Danbury the woman and a male companion were inside Tory's Cave off Route 7 Monday afternoon when she went into an 8-foot crevice and could not get out.^{[permanent dead link]}

[RecordJournal1996-06-02-2] Joe Hurley (1996-06-02). "Creatures lurk in features of Tory's Cave". Record Journal. p. 2. Retrieved 2013-08-26. The cave is alive with creatures like bats and pale-hued cave crickets. The Stugobromus also calls the cave home. The Stugobromus is a blind albine amphipod, or many-footed animal, somewhat like a tiny shrimp.

[3] Clay Perry (1939). Underground New England. Stephen Daye Press. p. 86. Retrieved 2013-08-26. Connecticut is well stocked with "Indian Caves," all over the state, but only in the extreme northwestern corner does it have true caves, like the Twin Lakes Caves. A true limestone cavern and a beautiful one, is Tory Cave at New Milford.

[4] "The Speleo Digest". Pittsburgh Grotto Press. 1959. pp. 1–143. Retrieved 2013-08-26. TORT CAVE (Connecticut) Tory Cave is in a sandy limestone. Its most interesting single feature is a series of chimneys, one on top of the other; and what is more, interconnected in some cases by crawlways.

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