Cudjo’s Cave is a book, a significant part of the Underground Railroad, and a little-known piece of national and Blount County history. “Cudjo’s Cave,” the book, was published in 1863 by John Townsend ...

But it’s the caving that he said forms part of his earliest memories. “When I was an infant, I have these incredibly vague memories of my parents taking me into caves, what was then called Cudjo’s ...