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1 week agoAmerica's Largest Underground Lake Is Hidden 140 Feet Below the Surface-Here's How to Visit
Part of the Craighead Caverns cave system, the Lost Sea is located near Sweetwater, a small city in the foothills of the Smokies, right between Knoxville and Chattanooga. While the lake is said to have been discovered in 1905 by a 13-year-old boy named Ben Sands, the surrounding caverns were used by the Cherokee, and 20,000-year-old jaguar tracks were also found there.
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