Late in the fall of 1976, while looking for Milk Cave in the Niagara River Gorge, I located several caves to the south of it. The next year while surveying the southern most cave I realized it needed a name. I decided to call it Ensminger's Cave.

      The cave has 3 entrances, 2 to the north and 1 to the south. The northwest entrance which is 5 feet high and 1 foot wide, is the easiest to enter. About 5 feet in from this entrance there is a side passage to the left that soon makes a turn to the left and connects with the northeast entrance after 18 feet. The main passage continues southward to the southern entrance in 10 feet.

      Ensminger's Cave is developed at the contact of the Rochester Shale and DeCew Dolostone. At the northwest entrance the passage has cut about 1 foot into the Rochester Shale. The passages are floored with a dry loose dirt in which a broken 3 inch long stalactite was found. The roof of the cave is extremely fractured.

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