Schieks Cave in 1939

“Cave Shaped Like an Inverted Bowl”: The 1904 Discovery of Schieks Cave

Schieks Cave—aka Farmers & Mechanics Bank Cave—is the largest cave under downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.  The otherwise excellent chapter on the cave’s history in the 1980 NSS Guidebook does not specify exactly when, or by whom, the cave was discovered.  That information, however, is contained in the following newspaper clipping, slightly abridged, from the Minneapolis Tribune, […]