Gypsy Heart
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From the Dickenson County Archives......
Far up in the mountain heights we come to Bakers Cave, so named from the
fact that an old man by the name of Baker seems to have discovered it, and from
signs he saw there concluding that treasures were hidden there. He dug holes in the
cave; but never found the visionary treasure he sought. There is a maple tree standing near
the entrance to the cave, in the smooth bark of which he carved the initials of his name,
H. B. (Hick Baker). These letters, though plainly visible now, will ere many years
pass, become distorted by the growth of the tree, with its effects upon the bark, till
they cannot be read. I may add that the old man lived out his allotted three score and ten years,
when the inevitable happened, and he went to his reward.
The entrance to Bakers cave is an opening through some rocks, and is circular in
form, about three feet in diameter. Once through the opening you are in a
spacious room perhaps sixty feet in length by thirty feet in width. It is solid rock over
head and on allsides, though rather irregular as for stone.
Digginman...Tell me this is finally in the right Virginia?
Far up in the mountain heights we come to Bakers Cave, so named from the
fact that an old man by the name of Baker seems to have discovered it, and from
signs he saw there concluding that treasures were hidden there. He dug holes in the
cave; but never found the visionary treasure he sought. There is a maple tree standing near
the entrance to the cave, in the smooth bark of which he carved the initials of his name,
H. B. (Hick Baker). These letters, though plainly visible now, will ere many years
pass, become distorted by the growth of the tree, with its effects upon the bark, till
they cannot be read. I may add that the old man lived out his allotted three score and ten years,
when the inevitable happened, and he went to his reward.
The entrance to Bakers cave is an opening through some rocks, and is circular in
form, about three feet in diameter. Once through the opening you are in a
spacious room perhaps sixty feet in length by thirty feet in width. It is solid rock over
head and on allsides, though rather irregular as for stone.
Digginman...Tell me this is finally in the right Virginia?
