THE AUCILLA RIVER CAVES

George M. Cole and John E. Ladson III Aucilla Research Institute Based on writings of local historian Mary Lou Bennett, a cave system as large as the well-known Florida Caverns in the Panhandle, once existed along the Aucilla River in the vicinity of the Aucilla sinks trail. Reportedly, the cave system was destroyed by a limestone crushing operation established by Taylor County in the late 1920s and early 1930s that was developed to manufacture crushed limestone for county road construction