The sketch, possibly done in carpenter’s pencil, is among the century-old workers’ graffiti left on the pillars of what is the basement of the Memorial, 45 feet below the sculpture of the 16th ...

What we know The century-old graffiti, likely done with a carpenter’s pencil, was discovered on the pillars in the basement of the monument during a $69 million renovation initiative.

I stood 200 feet below the Kentucky countryside, looking at three lines of graffiti written in pencil on the white limestone wall of Mammoth Cave. “A Rust 1861, W Garnett, V Hobartt 5th A G 1861,” ...