Cass Cave

{{short description|Cave located in Cass, West Virginia}}

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Cass Cave is a cave located in Cass, West Virginia,{{cite book|title=Bulletin of the National Speleological Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IaJeAAAAIAAJ|year=1966|publisher=National Speleological Society}} on Cheat Mountain. One of the rooms in the cave (the "Big Room") is {{cvt|800|ft}} long, {{cvt|180|ft}} high and {{cvt|75|ft}} wide.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7579647/features_of_cass_cave/|title=Features of Cass Cave|author=John Hodel|work=Beckley Post-Herald|location=Beckley, West Virginia|date=30 Jun 1963|page=17|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=24 November 2016}} Cass Cave has the highest subterranean waterfall in West Virginia and Virginia, Lacy Suicide Falls, with a height of {{cvt|139|ft}}. The waterfall was misnamed, as while a suicide did occur in the cave, it was at a small drop near the entrance. The cave is not open to the general public.{{cite book|author=Kevin Adams|title=Waterfalls of Virginia and West Virginia: A Hiking and Photography Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KOnHiX7xIKIC&pg=PA32|date=1 June 2002|publisher=Menasha Ridge Press|isbn=978-0-89732-414-4|pages=32–}}

The June 1964 Issue of National Geographic featured a two-page fold-out color photograph by Huntley Ingalls of a caver climbing a wire ladder adjacent to the waterfall.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7579721/wv_tourist_interest_is_on_increase/|title=WV Tourist Interest Is On Increase|work=Cumberland Evening Times|location=Cumberland, Maryland|date=17 August 1964|page=7|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=24 November 2016}} The photo was illuminated by a series of #2 Press photo flashbulbs laid over an aluminum foil reflector spread on the slope below.