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==History==
Although the cave has been open to the environment for many tens of thousands of years, as evidenced by numerous [[prehistoric]] animal finds discovered there, known human contact with the cave began only in the early 20th century, when a small farm animal became trapped in the small external opening of the cave, known as a [[sinkhole]]. The cave went largely unnoticed again until the 1920s during the era of [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]] when a small moonshine distillery was installed in the uppermost cavern. It again fell into obscurity until three local farm
After the rediscovery, Jim Horn, the original owner of the property decided to open it as a commercial venture. The [[show cave]] received its name after its official opening in 1939,<ref name=pit>{{cite book |last=Pittman | first=Blair |title=Texas Caves |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |year=1999 |pages=122 |isbn=0-89096-849-7}}</ref> as verified by a news paper article that hangs in the Cave's gift shop, in a state-wide contest held in 1940. A young boy suggested that the cave "was too beautiful to have a name", and so he received the 250 dollar cash prize awarded. The second owner of the Cave Without A Name, Eugene Ebell, renamed the cave "Century Caverns" in the late 1950s, but after several years of grief from the locals, Mr. Ebell changed the name back to Cave Without A Name.
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