As of 2009, the "spiderman" image had only two of the "spider legs" visible, the remainder being hidden under lichen and precipitated salts.

In 1867, much of the Garden Peninsula was deeded to the Jackson Iron Company, which planned to build furnaces at Fayette.

[7] The earliest record of the pictographs within Spider Cave[7] is in Hinsdale's Primitive Man in Michigan.

[4] A number of artifacts were collected from the cave, most of which were Middle Woodland period projectile points.

[7] Ruth and Henry Lang, who purchased the land in 1947, advertised the Spider Cave pictographs as a tourist attraction.