Tytoona Cave (Previously known as Sinking Valley Cave and Arch Spring Cave) has a lengthy recorded history, dating back to the arrival of white men in the Sinking Valley area in the 1750s. Local folklore states that around this time, Bedford Rangers chased Native Americans who had killed two settlers into the cave. The Native Americans supposedly never emerged from the entrance where the Rangers waited, and it is said that they either died in the cave or found another way out. Since no passable way in or out (except the main entrance) has ever been found, the likely explanation is that the Rangers, afraid to enter the cave, did not wait very long.