by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
The Indies Ballard was a triple masted sloop which sank in 1792 off the northern stretch of Maryland state’s Assateague Island. With her sank $130,000 in gold intended to indirectly fuel the thriving slave trade in America. Despite two known searches, the ship...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
Wilson’s hideout was at Woody Knoll in Worchester County, Maryland. The directions were in the form of a letter Wilson wrote to his brother, George, in 1750: “There are three creeks lying 100 paces or more north of the second inlet about Chincoteague...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
This is probably the largest pirate hoard ever hidden in the United States and at today’s prices this treasure is estimated to be worth several million dollars. In 1716-1717 at a spot unknown today near the mouth of the Machias River, Bellamy and Williams had...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
This story of buried treasure concerns Little John’s Island. Years ago there was a tavern on the North end of the island, a hangout for sailors, and one of these was a Portuguese who never did any work but always had plenty of gold and silver to spend when he...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
On May 6,1853, a New Haven Railroad train headed for Boston raced blindly around a sharp bend and shot through an open drawbridge outside Norwalk, Connecticut. It was the worst single American railroad disaster up to that time. Lost amid the smoking splintered rubble...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
A prospector came into Durango, Colorado, one day in 1905, bowed down by the weight of a sack full of extremely rich gold ore. He was in urgent need of some money and could not wait for the ore to be shipped and smelted and returned from the Denver mint as coin. After...
