Spanish Treasure in Polk County

Noble Hill is located on State 13, about 13 miles north of Springfield, and almost on the Polk-Green County line. There has long been a story known locally of a Spanish treasure buried in this area but details are scant. From 1940 until 1946 a man named Mullen owned...

Spanish Silver Mines

Over two hundred years ago seven Spaniards who were working a silver mine, after crudely smelting and stamping it, secreted their vast wealth in a cave about a mile from the smelters. After a while, they began fighting among themselves and finally there was only one...

Civil War Gold in Bates County

Sometime during the Civil War a band of guerrillas supposedly robbed a bank and looted a small unnamed town in the vicinity of Adrian, Missouri. The raiders, with $90,000 in gold were persued by a party of Union soldiers. They halted only long enough to bury the three...