Sight was acquired & transformed back in 2018 by Anthony Bruno, founder of Anthony's Runway 84 & Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza along wit An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. He knows more than a thing or two about the present . Christian and the treasure hunting team are looking forward to using new technology to scan the bottom of the lake for possible anomalies, and hope to find a treasure which was missed in past searchers. And he says, Treasure has a way of keeping its secrets. 158 0 obj 3. On 4 February 1823, Laffite was onboard the General Santander off the town of Omoa in Honduras. Charles F. Grice, Interview by Gary Pinkerton, February 2019. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(cdsscholarworks@sfasu.edu)/Rect[183.5112 72.3516 299.2412 82.8984]/StructParent 10/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> Sorry, there are no recent results for popular images. By The Siberian Times reporter. Filmmaker Brackston McKnight uses a metal detector on his property, searching for lost treasure. Host Mattie Blake and local movie maker Christian B. Roper (see Sunken Silver) led a team conducting underwater searching. To the north of Tatum, in the middle of the forest, lies Lake Hendrix. Some tough local lawmen. It led all the way back to an 1884 account where the guy who was the son of the founder of Tatum, Texas in East Texas decided he was going to drain the lake. A man named Nathan Smith thinks he's found the remnants of a sunken ship from an 1822 hurricane north of Corpus Christi - thanks to Google Earth. The lake is located in the extreme northeastern part of the county along the boundary between Rusk and Panola. HOUSTON It's the treasure hunt of a lifetime, and now it's landed them on national TV. My favorite part of the legend is that the Guadalupe Mission in El Paso was built in way so that the shadows of the mission point to the Lost Padre Mine. Now, more modern equipment was available, and one man used a metal detector and managed to get some interesting readings from the bottom of the lake. hill on the Lakes side, the scans show some promising images. The legend says that in 1816, Laffite and his fellow pirates plundered six wagon loads worth of silver from the Spanish. endobj As Laffite and his men raced through East Texas with the wagons, Spanish. Meanwhile, his younger brother John was exploring the coast of Texas. In Texas, the Laffites founded a pirate colony named Campeche. THE LEGEND A brig named Santa Rosa plundered in Matagorda Bay in 1816. One of Hendricks's biggest contributions was financing the excavation of Hawikku, an ancestral village in New Mexico, where the A:shiwi (Zuni) first made contact with Europeans. 0000000756 00000 n When they returned after the war, Singer could no longer find Money Hill because the sands had shifted and erased all the landmarks that he once knew. A Book by Gary L. Pinkerton, author of "Trammel's Trace", Ive seen fifty of em beaten by the lakes bog bottom, from oil explorers and water witchers to plain nuts. . endobj In fact, this same story about Lafitte treasure being lost somewhere, was repeated over and over in almost the same pattern from the Gulf Coast all the way up into Arkansas and Missouri.. In Gretna in 1960, across the river from New Orleans, a large number of gold coins were found in an area frequented by Lafitte and his men .According to another story, Laffite buried a large cache on an unnamed island in Lake Borgne. Leave them blank to get signed up. While en route through East Texas, the smugglers received word the Spanish army was closing in and, in an effort to hide the treasure, dumped the loot in a local lake. 01 April 2017. Read More about Jean Laffites treasure in the Sabine River, USS Hatteras (formerly St. Mary) was a 1,126-ton steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the early part of the American Civil War. 147 0 obj The people who believed the legend enough to pursue it were a diverse lot. Markers are dropped, and divers are sent down. During her time at the Watchman, she enjoyed writing features about businesses and local events. Soldiers approach, wagons sunk in Hendricks Lake, an oxbow lake just south of the Sabine River in northeastern Rusk County. A brig named Santa Rosa plundered in Matagorda Bay in 1816. Sometime around 1816,six wagon loads of Spanish silver ingots, allegedly stolen by the pirate Jean Laffite, were being transported through what is now East Texas. This page is for discussion about that early history,. Numerous springs within and around the lake keep it filled. 2019. In the early 1800s, Stephen F. Austin, on his first trip to Texas, also heard about a rich silver mine on the San Saba River and a gold mine on the Llano. To make this film a reality, we are seeking donors to help us meet our minimum budget goal. Also join us in the Facebook Group: Beyond Oak Island Treasures for more discussions. endstream When you see Hendricks Lake it just looks like it should have treasure in it.. To him it is the Chase and the history. Oxbow lakes result from a river's course change, in this case the Sabine River just to thc north. Texas oilmen who later drilled an oil well based on scripture. Over the years there have been many who made a minimal effort or spent a little time at the lake only to discover that the conditions were too difficult and they had neither the time nor the money for such an undertaking. In 2018, we decided to renew the legend with some information of our own. Well, according to a story by Mary Rogers of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, there is evidence that in the early 1800s the theft did happen and that Jean Lafittes men, afraid that they were about to be ambushed, pushed several wagons loaded with silver ingots into the muddy waters. Hobe Sound. Low 47F. &m;vH}p,$[%7?7hm'm&@A2Ef8IR%%p.Bs.H'QKR 5 ]sHT. startxref 168 0 obj The people who have looked for Hendricks Lake treasure since the 50s have spent a lot of money and hired a researcher in Spain to see if the Santa Rosa actually existed, all kinds of things, Pinkerton said. by the Rieseberg article had gone home with no treasure to On Monday, June 16th, 1958 Barney Patricia Sharpe writes a regular restaurant column, Pats Pick, for Texas Monthly. 1. :P1N8ihB:Ap"4qau_-6)aqhcgZ!=(!~qB3&\S%I}Dc{M6H31jiet_Ya dZ`URw#ser6QcS$JJrnlHN_f1`>!nUA{:_>vtZ)F+/z#~+PDG-+\X?U89XfDD\%E%R! b#[\Z}%dw2Q cDDp=_Em&>M!$]5yors8%52]Tp%>E]SV)IW%]Ka("Y4'7QuFf$a In the 1950s, the Sabine River and the nearby lake (Hendrick's Lake) experienced a new onslaught of treasure seekers when the story of Laffite's silver was published by the True West magazine. . The total value? Texas oilmen. 146 23 Mainly clear. When researching Trammels Trace for my last book, I encountered the treasure legend of Hendricks Lake. The story died down but regained momentum when treasure hunting became popular again in the fifties and when True West magazine printed an article about the long-forgotten silver prompting treasure hunters to flock to Carthage and Tatum. Stella Wieser of the Panola Watchman. There is a legend surrounding a supposed lost treasure in East Texas, one that filmmaker Christian B. Roper and his team have been researching for a documentary production, Sunken Silver. The real story of Hendricks Lake is not the legend alone, it is about the people who believed it fervently enough to put their time and money on the line in the hope of recovering it. Secret stash of tsar's gold worth billions found in old rail tunnel near Lake Baikal. But to this day, treasure hunters are unswayed. If pirate plunder and sunken silver hidden in a lake seem like the elements of folklore, they are. Since that time, many parties and individuals have endeavored to find the Lost Treasure of Hendricks Lake, with searches as early as 1884 and as recently as the 1970s. The first documented treasure recovery attempt in 1894 was based on the belief that Santa Anna had dumped gold, silver, and jewels, By 1935, a full-page syndicated article fleshed out more details. Hendricks Lake, once a commonly-frequented lake both for recreation and treasure hunting, is no longer accessible to the public. 0000043284 00000 n 0000010052 00000 n Although it hasnt yet been decided if the film will first be released at festivals and then to the public, Sunken Silver will eventually be available through online streaming. The crescent-shaped lake is less than a mile long, thirty to fifty yards wide, and twelve to forty feet deep. And then he became postmaster two years later, so apparently nothing came of that. The last. In a location on the lake, matching the tale, with a sloped Singer Treasure on Padre Island In the mid-nineteenth century, a man named Isaac Merritt Singer made significant improvements to the sewing machine. On his visits to Hendricks Lake with his son, they got a hit and brought a diver along to search the bottom. s f a s u . 149 0 obj a must to have. xVy~}F0N13`&p"I9:tZ"-"}]{~~x/ c HfE4sowa-n_?B. Mary Roger also tells us about how some fishermen much later got an unusual catch in their hoop net when fishing in the Sabine River; entangled in their net were several silver bars. There was a problem saving your notification. In 1912 it was like a big resort, come out and fish and real flowery language (in advertisements).. In this work you will find what I hope you found in my first book solid, thorough research and a story with which we can all connect. endobj hb```E@9Z9:sj*5)o(Hd`8iQ^gFMJNvZ7he);Ndx8uy}xc;Mt0u410[t0v4t40t40Zt00L@,E@`E,AsE^X/q5tDX4C#{ He is portrayed by Armando Riesco. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(United States History Commons)/Rect[137.2383 228.9906 279.5625 240.7094]/StructParent 6/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> All Rights Reserved. 152 0 obj The hidden fortunes of the Doan Boys Gang, said to be $2 million at least. Plus, if when they come back and nothing can be found, he says they have the whole Texas coast and more to continue their search. Error! While Pinkerton believes the lake area should be a park, the reality is Hendricks Lake is no longer accessible by the public as the land surrounding it belongs to private land owners or is being leased by mining companies. A semi-weekly newsletter with all of The Panola Watchman's sports coverage. Low 47F. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents()/Rect[493.2393 594.2333 540.0 607.124]/StructParent 3/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> The legends a legend, but the people that believed it and the effort they went through to actually find it despite obvious questions about the details, Pinkerton stated. It says so much about East Texas folklore. According to one legend, a group of priests put about three hundred burro loads of silver in a mine on one of their expeditions to New Mexico. Since that time, many parties and individuals have endeavored to find the Lost Treasure of Hendricks Lake, with searches as early as 1884 and as recently as the 1970s. One person who is still committed to the Hendricks Lake legend is Jacksonville documentary film maker and treasure hunter, Christian B. Roper. The legend has taken many twists over the years. We Found Out Archaeologists on Easter Island Have Discovered a Previously Unknown Moai Statue Buried in a Dried-Out Lake Bed Christie's Pulled In $202 Million at Its 20th/21st-Century Sales in . Kuna, ID hosted by Treasure Valley Disc Golf. For more information on Sunken Silver, visit www.sunkensilver.com. There are people who spend their whole lives and considerable sums of money searching for sunken treasure ships, lost mines, and hidden loot. In the early 1820s, Great Colombia under the government of Simon Bolivar had begun commissioning former privateers as officers in their newly formed navy. In the final battle of the War of 1812, Lafitte and his comrades helped General Andrew Jackson defend New Orleans against the British. Somebody made fun of him; he clubbed the guy to death. Pinkerton spent time in Carthage recently talking to those with accounts of some of the treasure hunters, and he hopes to connect with more people who have Hendricks Lake stories to tell. That set off a huge treasure hunting stampede. A huge battle ensued between the two groups near what is now known as Tyler. The silver was never recovered. It featured Pirate Treasures. The mud is deep on the bottom, and just as Discovering history is part of the adventure, and that never ends. The Cherokees started getting their butts kicked. According to reports, the total bounty would be worth more than $1.36 million today. In June of 2020, the treasure was finally found by a man who chose not to be named (perhaps understandably, as he was suddenly $5 million richer!). Having already written a book on Trammels Trace, a road running through Tatum which he noted was the first road to Texas from the north, Pinkerton is now embarking on a journey to research the people and the reasons for the treasure hunting extravaganza for an upcoming book. . They got away with three thousand freshly-minted 1877 $20 gold pieces. Joe spent many hours growing up around Milzie Williamson and later used his Fisher M-Scope metal detector to search those mysterious holes. Mainly clear. . Although hes fascinated by the legend and the excitement it created, Pinkerton doesnt believe its even a little bit true. The Lagina Brothers, famous for their search for the lost treasure on Oak Island and featured in the show The Curse of Oak Island, now hosts a new show called, Beyond Oak Island. Legend says six wagons full of silver bars were rolled into hendricks lake. The film will center around local lore of a lost treasure of $2 million in silver ingots said to have been stolen by French pirate Jean Laffite and hidden by smugglers in Hendricks Lake, a. Their father, Barnie Waldrop, was the most active local treasure hunter. 157 0 obj It was one of the first times I met with Brackston after we graduated university last summer, Roper recalled. I got copies of pages in Spanish that say Yeah there was the Santa Rosa, the proposed name of the ship, there was a Santa Rosa, (but) it didnt sink. It carried cane liquor and salt and sugar from Cuba to Cadiz. During the Mexican War of Independence, the Laffites served as spies for the Spanish, after moving to Galveston Island, Texas. As a young girl, Diana pushed the plunger to set off dynamite. 0000001730 00000 n I always thought it was interesting that people had reason to believe there was pirate treasure 200 miles from the coast.. endstream Hotspots would include the many watercourses through the area and gravel arroyos northeast of Boise, near Idaho City. Christian Access to those treasure seekers was largely through land owned by a former Panola County sheriff, Corbett Akins, and one of his deputies, L.E. Since 2014, Rick and Marty Lagina have produced "The Curse of Oak Island" for The HISTORY Channel. Just let me know if you find anything so I can break the story first. Hendericks was a member of the Cras Est Nostrum and became Salazar at some point in the past. But people buy into it, and thats the part thats interesting to me.. Little Cypress Creek, north of Gilmer, is the site where legend says a cache of Mexican coinage was dumped, according to A Brief History of Upshur County a history book published in 1946. xref The divers do feel some round objects, and a piece is Barnie Waldrop said he outlasted all the others and had seen fifty of em beaten by the lakes bog bottom. endobj 0000003470 00000 n accessed March 05, 2023, As they retreated, they headed into what is now known as Upshur County. Handbook of Texas Online, Click here to start your Free Trial (no credit card required), by Michelle Dillon michelle@thecherokeean.com. <>stream He maintains websites for Trammels Trace and for Hendricks Lake, as well as social media Facebook groups for both stories. The search is called off for the time being. In 1965, led a team of Iowans in some aborted, but ambitious, attempts at the treasure. Stories are how we interact as people and its how we grow. Believed the treasure was in Martin Creek after meeting old Mexicans with a map when he was just a boy. There are still treasure hunters to this day who believe the Lafitte fortune would be found if the lake was drained. The son of the founder of the town of Tatum. There was another story that said No it wasnt Lafitte, it was Santa Anna, and he didnt want the gold to be lost in San Jacinto, so he sent it on the wagon train. The guy from Iowa who did the treasure hunting had researchers in Spain, in the archives. 146 0 obj The popularity of treasure hunting during this time period was profiled in numerous pulp magazines and news features, and the business of supplying treasure hunters was page one news in the Wall Street Journal. 10 Lost Treasures in America Waiting to be Found. He built a new kind of sewing machine, and in. May the hunters strike gold. The tale basically states Galveston-based pirate Jean Laffite, in the year 1816, plundered a Spanish ship named the Santa Rosa. 30 April 2021 AFP It is one of Sweden's most spectacular Bronze Age finds A man surveying a forest for his orienteering club in western Sweden stumbled on a trove of Bronze Age treasure reckoned. None of (the rest) lines up, but 1860s, 1870s, there was enough yada yada to create some story.. Over the years, Hendricks Lake near Tatum has been a place where many people have visited in search of a legendary treasure that was supposedly left at the site by Pirate Jean LaFitte. endobj There is a legend surrounding a supposed lost treasure in East Texas, one that filmmaker Christian B. Roper and his team have been researching for a documentary production, Sunken Silver. ingots were in transport, but the Spanish had set a trap. A Book by Gary L. Pinkerton, author of "Trammel's Trace". Texas Lege Watch: A House Republican Fights for Chicken Freedom, Texas Monthly Recognized by ASME in the 2023 National Magazine Awards. The land was sold sometime in the last 20 years and is now within a restricted mining area. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). This is the list to receive occasional emails containing special offers, deals and promotions (like contests). The other big buried treasure legend from East Texas is the story of Little Cypress Creek. At the end of World War II, the German Nazi's are believed to have sunk a fortune in Lake Toplitz, Austria, Daily Star reports. An occasional newspaper article kept the story alive and throughout the 1960s treasure hunters found their way to Hendrick's Lake, but none matched the expeditions launched by the SoRelle . Before I started to work on the story running in the July 2009 issue (Sleeping Booty) about California musician Nathan Smiths quixotic attempt to find a lost Spanish treasure ship near the town of Refugio, north of Corpus Christi, I assumed that there was no buried treasure at all in Texas. The stolen loot was smuggled north some years later but ended up in Lake. The tried to dynamite the bottom, but ended up with no silver for this efforts. The oilmen then built a raft with a hole in the center and sank large pipes into the goop on the lake bottom. An electrical engineer and MIT grad who before coming to Hendricks Lake to look for treasure had found the Union navys ironclad Tecumseh in Mobile Bay. Maybe they can help them in their search from the insights learned from their own pursuit of the Money Pit. 155 0 obj Both American coasts abound with tales of buried pirate treasure. H-E-Bs True Texas BBQ Restaurant Is Slipping, West Texans Are Learning What It Means to Live in Bear Country. Pinkerton himself doesnt personally believe there was any silver brought through East Texas during the time in which the legend takes place because the roads were little more than Indian trails. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents( \n h t t p s : / / s c h o l a r w o r k s . Lived at the lake, rented boats to people who wanted to fish. 153 0 obj He initially doesn't release any details on the finder or location. More than once the crane almost toppled into the water. Spring is situated 3 miles northeast of Hendricks Lake. In one account, Pinkerton recalls doing research and finding a story about the son of the founder of Tatum. 1930, it came up again, 35. Or Black Lake. Contacts. Omoa was the site of the largest Spanish fort in Central America, a fort constructed to safeguard the Spanish silver shipments from the mines of Tegucigalpa in Honduras. Barnie Waldrop, a Carthage television repairman, had used his own electronics to search the lake for years. help him in his search. Houston historian Gary Pinkerton, a Longview native, is fascinated by those treasure hunters and their searches. 2018 Sunken Silver. Most of the cobs or old Spanish finds I've seen on the forum are either from Florida or the Upper East Cost. So where is it? According to legend, Singer hid the money he found in a large sand dune that he called Money Hill. But as fate would have it, he and his family had to abandon their Texas home during the Civil War because they were considered Union sympathizers. From the first searches in the 1880s to the large scale efforts of the 1950s and 1960s, its story has . Cush Reeves. Seagoville pharmacist who was the diver that planted dynamite on the bottom of Hendricks Lake. After getting some readings at the bottom of the lake (Hendricks Lake), two Dallas oilmen actually brought in a giant crane and attached a drag bucket to the cable. \Dy@tw sde!F@D}@10 4c/ The lake is located in the extreme northeastern part of the county along the boundary between Rusk and Panola. Pickering, a veteran diver, has made it his mission to recover all things odd and ordinary lurking in the lake to keep Georgia families safe. Laffite was wounded in the battle and is believed to have died just after dawn. Sheriff of Carthage, who co-owned 470 acres on the northwest end of the lake with Corbett Akins. endobj There are two legends in particular that seem to have found purchase in the minds of East Texas treasure hunters. The self-proclaimed worlds greatest underwater treasure hunter wrote several articles about Hendricks Lake for pulp magazines of the 50s and 60s. ]9xd@% ilIA):cOr+}fJg-|o)!6ns+"6nsj[R JMr}bz b)N$PvfeY%Gc Za}J8420sw*b96z>r$J54a 75U,Y{hw!C'9i?| P[Zvh]|bNb7hRAbTi#n'M{ Ocean Breeze. Abilene Reporter-News, June 24, 1958. . He also might have(might have, I remind you)come across a wooden chest containing what was then $80,000 in jewelry and coins. Singer Treasure on Padre Island In the mid-nineteenth century, a man named Isaac Merritt Singer made significant improvements to the sewing machine. When the Embargo Act of 1807 came into force, the Laffite brothers moved their business from New Orleans to an island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake. Read More about USS Hatteras, This is a funny little slot filled with intricate features and attention-grabbing symbols. Christian Roper and Brackston McKnight lay eyes on Hendricks Lake, the alleged locale of sunken pirate treasure. At the age of 25, Jean Laffite was living in New Orleans, operating a warehouse essential to dispersing the goods smuggled by his brother Pierre. Winds light and variable.. endobj In the last chapter of the book, I really talk about where do we go from here now., Theres something inherent in us that wants to believe those legends, Pinkerton stated. But theres just been this very persistent legend, and so in the late 50s, mid 60s, there were two really big efforts (to locate the treasure), tons of articles in the Watchman about these two different groups searching for it, dredging.. The Lost Padre Mine Somewhere in the Franklin Mountains overlooking the Rio Grande River in El Paso County is the Lost Padre Mine. Well, my beloved fellow Texas readers, though I have no idea whether anything Im about to pass on to you is the slightest bit accurate, here are six of the supposedly great Texas treasures still waiting to be found. Waldrop believed this man had many treasure secrets, but he was a well-known fraud. The dumping of the silver in the lake was a temporary thing until danger passed, then was recovered, after all he had divers at his disposal. His body was buried at sea in the Gulf of Honduras. Beyond Oak Island Episode 2 Summary: Wild West Gold and the Search at Robbers Roost Canyon for Butch Cassidys Lost Treasure, All can be found to have a questing theme within them, Third Annual Masquerade Tribute of Hunts for Charity, The Second Annual Masquerade Tribute Wrap Up, Privacy Policy, Disclaimer and Affiliate Disclosure. mATTY BLAKE (HOST) AND cHRISTIAN B. ROPER. All in all, several wagons loaded with silver ingots went into the river. That lucky treasure hunter who finds where X marks the spot, will become an East Texas legend, just like the treasure they strove to find. The first episode premiered on Tuesday November 17 at 10PM EST on the History Channel. The team, known as the "Temple Twelve," have been . 24 Lake Toplitz In Austria Is Believed To Hold The Lost Treasures From World War II. That historic trail passed just to the east of the lake, with the trail making up two-thirds of the boundary between Rusk and Panola counties. See the BLOG here for more details. Ive actually been at this project about 14 months now. Do@aj^HmFd*`G1 Over the years, Hendrick's Lake near Tatum has been a place where many people have visited in search of a legendary treasure that was supposedly left at the site by Pirate Jean LaFitte. endobj Despite this, no silver bars were found. By using deep-sea sonar technology that can pierce the thick mud and clay at the bottom of the lake, Roper said he may have found a cart or wagon that might have moved treasure to the lake. Some of the (alleged) lost treasures in Pennsylvania worth researching are ones like: $30,000 worth of gold coins said to be King George ll's Lost Plunder. 0000001207 00000 n They know it. Some fishermen in the last century pulled several silver bars from those very waters with a hoop net. On his website, Fenn wrote, "It was under a. Captain Blackbeard's Lost Silver, said to be $1.5 million worth of silver bars. 159 0 obj During the investigation, Roper found Gary Pinkertons book, We met with Gary in January and we had no clue about his book coming out, we just knew that he was kind of the expert on this trace, this route that had been taken in the story by this group of smugglers carrying all the silver, Roper said. In an interview . The Lost San Saba Silver Mine This lost mine, with its rich vein of silver, has been what one treasure hunter writer has called the Holy Grail of Texas treasure seekers. In 1756 a Mexican official traveling through Texas learned from Indians of an exposed strain of pure silver that ran through a certain hill in Central Texas. And if so is the treasure still there? Follow the link to read our updated Privacy Policy. Palm City. The Sam Bass Loot In perhaps his greatest venture, Texass legendary stagecoach and bank robber Sam Bass traveled to Big Springs, Nebraska, with his sidekick Joel Collins and held up the Union Pacific Railroad. Lets be honest, everybody loves a good treasure story. And an MIT-trained electrical engineer who held a patent for underwater metal detection. After completing high school in Virginia, she moved to New York City and pursued a career as a model following her entry into a Seventeen cover contest. East Texas Gold From Mexico In 1839 Mirabeau B. Lamar, the newly inaugurated successor to Sam Houston as President of Texas, sent the Texas Army out to get rid of the Cherokees. down. 0000004315 00000 n . Six wagon loads of silver carried north along Trammels Trace. At that time, the legend was that Mexican land pirates lived along the lake and dumped gold, silver, and precious stones in the lake when they were attacked by the Texans or some other forces. Tatum reportedly built a device with buckets on a conveyor and operated by steam engines to attempt to bail the water from the lake. There are two legends in particular that seem to have found purchase in the minds of East Texas treasure hunters. But they got nothing. Laffite spent the rest of his life attacking merchant ships around Central American ports; sometimes as a pirate and sometimes as a privateer. TATUM A trio of Jacksonville natives wants to turn two-century-old piracy legend into a full-length feature documentary film and theyre seeking funding help to do it. Fort Worth Daily Gazette, October 3, 1884. 150 0 obj I havent found anything to suggest that a centuries-worth of stories about buried treasure have any credence. 0000002542 00000 n . 162 0 obj To view perks for contributors or to make a donation towards completion of the film, visit www.gofundme.com/sunkensilver. One thing is certain though, East Texans will continue to be fascinated by stories like these. Despite intense efforts at dredging, detecting, diving, and dynamiting for Hendricks Lake treasure, the only thing that was reportedly found in the lake was the rim of an old wagon wheel. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos. Legend has it that Basss part of the money is in Cove Hollow, about thirty miles from Denton. Hughes Springs up in Cass County was founded by two brothers looking for a treasure in the 1850s or 60s. TV repairman in Carthage who kept up his efforts for years and was the local expert. Spring is a census-designated place within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States, part of the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area. When a giant storm hit the region, the raft was washed away and destroyed. But did it even exist? As a former channel of the Sabine, Hendricks Lake is fed intermittently by Black Slough and by seasonal overflow from both Cherokee Bayou and the Sabine River. Read More about Texas Tea Slot, about Jean Laffites treasure in the Sabine River.

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