by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
After heavy easterly storms many coins have been found — and are still being found — along the Delaware Coast near the Indian River Coast Guard Station. These coins are mostly Irish halfpence coppers of the period 1780-1783, although a few gold and silver...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
In October 1837, Boston citizens spilled their tea cups in shock as they read in the Boston “Times” that $60,000 to $120,000 in gold specie had been stolen off the packetship “Susquehanna”. Within a short time of the robbery, the ship loaded...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
Percy Creek, in Wilkinson County, is a long twisting overgrown stream but somewhere along the creek’s banks there could very well be buried a fortune in 200 year old coins. In the early 1780’s a ship sailed into the Mississippi River and later stopped at...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
Captain Dane was Master of the Ship “Nightingale” which plied between the Gulf ports of Central and South America during the early 19th Century. On what proved to be his last trip, he took on board at Montevideo a rich, elderly Portuguese and his young...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
Charles Ney operated a brewery for many years in Henderson until prohibition went into effect. Soon afterward he died. It is known that Ney amassed a considerable fortune, but it was not found in banks or in his home. In 1924 the brewery was razed. Two years later a...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
One of the most persistent rumors of sunken treasure is that of the Poverty Island wreck of an unidentified vessel which sank off Escanaba carrying a load of $4,500,000 in gold bullion. If Lake Michigan does hold this ship, it has the richest treasure of the Great...
