Oak Island

The Discovery One summer day in 1795 Daniel McGinnis, then a teenager, was wandering about Oak Island, Nova Scotia (see Geography) when he came across a curious circular depression in the ground. Standing over this depression was a tree whose branches had been cut in...

HSSCanada’s blog

One summer day in 1795 Daniel McGinnis, then a teenager, was wandering about Oak Island, Nova Scotia (see Geography) when he came across a curious circular depression in the ground. Standing over this depression was a tree whose branches had been cut in a way which...

The Art Institute of Florida

We at Historic Sites and Shipwrecks gratefully acknowledge The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale for their support in the past. We would like to especially thank three photographers in particular, who provided their considerable talent and time to photograph all the...

Florida Treasure Sites

This is a stone map that the Spanish artists/stone masons designed to use at the site of the Plate Fleet losses of 1715 and 1733. If you look closely in the area to the right of the red arrows on the body of the stone you will see the outline of a Golden Boot. This...

LAUNCH

After a long search we at HSS have finally found the website development team with magic fingers that are capable of putting all the information on this ancient coded mapping system used by the Spanish to hide all their mines and treasure storage vaults into a visual...