Graham Cave

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 0.5 mi. N of Mineola, Mineola, 63361
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. site
Township. Danville township
National Register reference number. 66000420 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Graham Cave: 25 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Thornton Dowling Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Green Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Mcclain Lime Quarry & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Mcclain Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this property

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mineola, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Thunderstorm winds blew over a semi on Interstate 70 west of Danville.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Several large tree limbs were blown down.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed power lines in the Mineola area.
April 2015	Hail	Mineola	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Sylvester Marion and Frances Anne Stephens Baker House	2.5 miles	1999
	Mount Horeb Baptist Church	5.6 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000420 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 8 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.