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This is a photograph of a profile of an Indian. I would guess that it was the chief of a local tribe of Indians who lived near the Fetty Cave. As a young boy growing up in Gilmer County, I made several trips to this cave. It was huge and seemed so very large when I was young. After I married, I took my children there to see it as I remembered it from my childhood. It had changed. People had marked their names or initials with all colors of paint onto the walls of the cave. To my further disappointment, I discovered that someone had completely destroyed the Indian face. It had been turned into a pile of stone at the base of the wall it had once been carved into. Words cannot describe the disgust I felt for the person or persons who did this terrible deed. Years of history were destroyed, never to be seen by a human being again.
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