Tory's Cave (New Milford, Connecticut)
Cave in Connecticut, United States
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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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