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Cave City, Old Mammoth Cave Road.
I-65, exit 53, west on Hwy 70 toward Mammoth Cave National Park for 8km. |
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| Address: | Floyd Collins Museum, The Wayfarer, 1240 Old Mammoth Cave Road, Cave City, KY. |
| Last update: | $Date: 2008/07/01 20:31:59 $ |
| 1925 | Floyd Collins died in Sand Cave. | |
| 1933 | built as the Mammoth Cave Souvenier Shop. | |
| 1989 | Wayfarer purchased by Becky and Larry Bull. |
The Wayfarer is a large house behind the marker on the road to Mammoth Cave for Sand Cave. Sand Cave is the place where Floyd Collins died, probably Americas most popular failure ever. When the current owners bought it, they opened a gift shop and bed and breakfast. But as they were asked so many times about Floyd, they started to research and soon displayed their collectibles about him in their bed and breakfast. After some time the exhibition became a small museum and is now called Floyd Collins Museum.
Obviously, the museum chronicles the rescue attempt. A series of cave-like alcoves, show the different aspects of the story in more or less chronologic order. The last chamber contains a chained coffin. There are pictures, memorabilia, replicas and kitsch, with the contemporary Floyd Collins ballad playing in the background.
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