From “Chapter XXVIII: The County of Conecuh” in “Alabama:
Her History, Resources, War Record and Public Men From 1540 to 1872” by Willis
Brewer:
Turk’s Cave, near Brooklyn, is noted for the large quantity
of bat guano it contains. In the early settlement of the county, it was the
resort for some time of the famous highwayman Joseph T. Hare, and his
accomplices; and it was here they stored their treasure, and from whence they
sallied forth to rob and murder the traders who plied their vocation between
Pensacola and the Indian country. Their ill-gotten gains were generally
squandered in carousal with the senoritas of Pensacola, who little knew the
dark fountain whence flowed such lavish prodigality.
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