This post is most likely a total goose chase, but here is something for someone to look for someday if they are near the town of La Grange.
In 1986, Dr. Bill Elliot sent to me some info on some very small caves that were vaguely mentioned in the TSS Files for Fayette County. The most promising of which seemed to be called "Meyer Cave." Myself and an Aggie caver named David Mainz looked for it for an hour, but never found it. We found a very tiny hole in the ground that did not meet the standards of a cave, near the location shown below. 29°52'59.2"N 96°53'43.5"W29.883100, -96.895412 This tiny hole seemed to fit the description of a cave called "Pugsley's Cave." I can't remember if that is what the landowner called it, or what was in the TSS file. It was a 10 foot long crawlway about 2 feet high and the vertical entrance was about 4 feet in diameter. I did not note how deep it was, but my memory was, that we crawled headfirst in about 6 feet only. It had some brick around it to reinforce once side of the entrance. Meyer Cave is described below and should be in that general area within a mile or two. ______________________________________________________________________ >From TSS Note ( sent 1986 ): MEYER CAVE This cave consist of a room 40 feet long and 4 feet high. with entrances at each end. A slot at the south edge of the room goes down into a smaller room, 12 feet long and 2 feet high. The cave was explored by Stuart Murphy and Cathryn Robinson on November 4, 1973. Location: Panorama Estates, 4 miles west of Monument Hill State Park. Ref. S. Murphy ___________________________________________________________________ I scribbled something on this note about this being Mr. Meyer's property and something about County Road 335 and nearest landmark was a water tower ( for Pugsley's Cave ) My recollection is lots of expensive homes and nobody would answer door and lots and lots of big barking dogs. We did not have topo maps, or aerial imagery, and only spoke to one landowner. We did not see anything that looked like karst, but there was plenty of rock croppings that were exposed. We were also pressed for time. I surfed around the property just now on Google and there seems to be some oilfield type structures that were probably not in that area before. My vague memory was that we could not find away to cross Buckner's Creek on foot. We were definitely south of the creek. And north-northeast of Panorama Drive East. David Locklear NSS # 27639
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