The cave was discovered by some lumbermen in 1915.
It is named after a lumberman who chose to preserve this portion of the park in the 1870s.
He told his lumbermen to avoid cutting smaller trees in order to allow them to grow to full size.
They were lumbermen who cut the trees to build those ships.
Then he became a lumberman, and later a bricklayer.
He worked as a lumberman and then a traveling salesman who identified himself as a botanic physician and sold elixirs.
It was founded to serve the interest of both lumbermen and miners.
The only thing the lumbermen left behind was the treetops.
