by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
During the battles around Columbia during the Civil War, a Confederate payroll was supposed to be hidden in a cave on Duck River, at Buzzard Roost. The soldiers that hid it were killed and it has never been reported found. Symbols are carved on the bluffs overlooking...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
According to a history of Tennessee by James Adair, “Within twenty miles of Fort Loudon (built by the British in 1756-57 on the Little Tennessee River) there exist silver mines so rich that by digging about ten yards deep, some desperate vagrants found at sundry...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
East of Sneedville, on the Clinch River, in Hancock County, is where W.G. Seal owned and operated a legal distillery in the 1800s. He was also a prosperous farmer and cattle trader. It is known that he accumulated a half bushel of gold and silver coins. A large part...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
South Dakota Indian legends and other sources tell of a Santee Indian named Gray Foot, who told his sons in a deathbed confession that he had buried a flour sack partially filled with gold coins near Long Lake in what is now Marhsall County. He said he was a member of...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
In the 1860’s an unidentified vessel carrying bullion was wrecked in the Missouri River, off Pierre, before a permanent settlement was located there. The cargo of gold from the mines of Montana was valued at $500,000. Reports at the time said the site of the...
