by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
There is a story of a strongbox with $30,000 in gold that was being transported by a tax collector in 1860. When outlaws tried to rob him he dropped the box into the Tambigbee River south of Myrtewood in Marengo County. The strongbox was thrown into the water close to...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
This is a condensed version of the story of a lost silver mine in West Virginia, giving the essential facts and directions. “About Indian Camp on Indian Camp Run (in Upshur County) there is an interesting tradition of a lost silver mine and a fabulous buried...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
Sometime during the 1950s two deer hunters discovered an old mine shaft in Clay County. The mine, which they explored, proved to have a very rich vein of gold. There were also relics of mining nearby to indicate that at one time it had been worked, but not recently....
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
The lost mine of the Klickitat tribe, on the Little Klickitat River in southern Washington, was reported to be the richest gold mine on the Pacific Coast. Lewis and Clark saw the gold from the mine being prepared for shipment to England by a Hudson’s Bay factor...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
The lost mine of the Klickitat tribe, on the Little Klickitat River in southern Washington, was reported to be the richest gold mine on the Pacific Coast. Lewis and Clark saw the gold from the mine being prepared for shipment to England by a Hudson’s Bay factor...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
$50,000 to $60,000 worth of gold ingots, in a small barrel, was buried in or near the Fort Columbia Military Reservation in Pacific County, by Captain James Scarborough, a Scottish sea captain and trader. In the 1830s Captain Scarborough sailed his ship into the...
