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  • Treasure Hunting Arizona-Tumacacori Tombstone Calabasas Cerro Colorado Charleston Chloride Congress

    Tumacacori National Monument is located 18 miles north of Nogales, U.S. 89.

    San Jose de Tumacacori was a settlement founded by the Jesuits in 1691 primarily
    to convert Pima Indians and remained active until 1848. Church ruins and about
    20 vast stone buildings are still on site.
    Old Oraibi Village can be found at the northeast corner of Arizona, State 264, 3
    miles west of Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation where ruins of more than a hundred of old stone Indian houses built around 1150 can be found. There are also traces of Spanish mining settlements and archeological sites within the area.
    Around Phoenix and outside the city, there are also remnants of the Indian and
    Spanish buildings. A big hill in Pueblo Grande City Park covers the Hohokam
    structure which dates back to the year 900.
    Pipe Spring National Monument can be found 15 miles southwest of Fredonia
    and 25 miles north of the Grand Canyon, U.S. 89. It’s where the Mormons settled
    in 1858. A fort was also built here in 1870 by the Texas miners. It is also where
    ruins of 19th century buildings can be found.
    Tombstone is located 20 miles northwest of Bisbee, Cochise Co, U.S. 80. The rich
    silver deposit brought big progress to the town since its origins in 1877,
    the population grew to 15, 000 by the year 1880. Chaos and lawlessness became an everyday sight . It was 1887 when the mine was involuntarily closed down by flooding and the vibrant community was no more. Remains of its heyday are still present in this town of less than a thousand individuals which still inhabit the place.
    Austerlitz is a ghost town situated around 7 miles to the south of the town Arivaca, in Santa Cruz County. Austerlitz was originally a mining town, and was deserted by the year 1900.
    Bluebell is considered to be a near-ghost town, situated 10 miles northeast of Prescott and around 4 miles to the west of County 69. Bluebell was also a mining town, as evidenced by the nearby Bluebell Mine and its copper and silver refineries. Only a small number of people still take residence here.
    Bradshaw City is another near-ghost town, nestled near Mt. Wasson, part of the Bradshaw Mountains to the south of Prescott in Yavapai County. Bradshaw was yet another mining settlement, operating the Crown King mine, whose ruins can be found nearby. 5,000 people once inhabited this city.
    Calabasa is a ghost town that lies to the south of the town of Nogales in Santa Cruz County, around 6 miles down State Route 89. Calabasa was a Spanish settlement built in the late 18th century, for the purpose of exploiting silver resources in the vicinity. Throughout the years, Calabasa would change hands between Natives, Mexicans, and Confederate troops. Calabasa became a formidable fortress for the Confederacy during the Civil War, in conjunction with the nearby Fort Mason. Calabasa was abandoned in the year 1870.
    Cerro Colorado is a ghost town that lies around 30 miles to the northwest of the town of Nogales, Papago Indian Reservation. Built within the Quinlan Mountains, Cerro Colorado was built because of the nearby Heintzelman Mine. By the year 1885, Cerro Colorado had grown to a city of over 10,000 souls. More than 800 dilapidated buildings can be found in this site of ruins.
    Charleston is a ghost town built on the banks of the San Pedro River in Cochise County, around 8 miles to the southwest of the near-ghost town of Tombstone. Much of the original town still stands as ruins, most prominently that of the Tombstone Mining Company.
    Chloride is a ghost town that can be found approximately 4 miles to the west of state 93, and around 20 miles to the northwest of the town of Kingman. Chloride was a mining town that serviced several mines, the ruins of which could still be found nearby.
    Congress is a ghost town that lies close to where County 60 and State 89 meet, approximately 16 miles to the north of the town of Wickenburg, in Yavapai County. Congress was named for the Congress Mine, whose ruins can still be found nearby.

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  • Treasure Hunting Arizona Fort Verde De Chelly Casa Grande Monument Coronado National Memorial Hubbel

    Arizona - Fort Verde is an almost forgotten military fortification east of the town of Cape Verde in Yavapai County. Fort Verde’s heyday was in the 1870s, when it was used as a primary base for cavalry units under General George Cook. Despite its age, many of its stone structures still stand today.

    Montezuma’s Castle can also be found in Yavapai County, near the town of Rimrock just off I-17. Montezuma’s Castle is one of the most intact relics of the past from Native American civilization in the Southwest USA. Its defining features are the prominent houses carved into the sheer cliff during the 13th century. This site is also surrounded by a number of other places of archeological interest.
    Canyon de Chelly, near Chinle, Apache County, comprises hundreds of dwellings similar to those that could be found at Montezuma’s Castle. These dwellings were carved at the base of steep red sandstone cliffs, and are said to have been built by the Pueblo Indians between the 8th and 14th centuries AD. In the 1700s, a community of Navajos conquered and settled the dwellings. These Navajos would harass colonizers for much of the next few centuries. A particularly bloody example occurred in 1805, when a troop of Spanish soldiers engaged a band of Navajos who ambushed them at a place called Massacre Cave. Another engagement was recorded in 1864, when a man named Kit Carson routed a large force of Navajos in the Canyon. Other ruins built by the Pueblo Indians lie nearby, at places named Canyon del Muerte, Monument Canyon, and Black Rock.
    Casa Grande Monument is located around two miles to the north of the town of Coolidge in Pinal County, near State Route 87. The Casa Grande is a spectacular tower made up of packed walls stacked four stories high. It is believed to have been constructed by the Hohokam people for ceremonial purposes. The Hohokam first arrived in the area around 400 BC and would leave in the middle of the 15th century. The monument stands in the middle of nearly 90 mud buildings.
    Tonto National Monument can be found approximately 28 miles off SR 88, due northwest of the town of Globe in Gila County. This landmark is also dominated by cliff dwellings. Over 100 of these homes were carved out of the cliff by the Salado Indians during the 14th century, and would be abandoned roughly a century later. The Salados were proficient at mining gold and silver in the area, and thus many artifacts made from these precious metals have been found here.
    The Mission of San Xavier del Bac stands about 9 miles south of Tucson, just by Mission Road. First built by Jesuit missionaries in 1692 amidst a village of Pima natives, it would fall under siege when the natives revolted in 1751. It was said to house a considerable collection of treasure, which the missionaries were said to have successfully hidden before they were all massacred. San Xavier del Bac was burnt to the ground, but was rebuilt in 1767 by a group of Franciscan missionaries, and still stands.
    The Tubac Presidio Ruins lie 45 miles to the south of Tucson in Santa Cruz County. Tubac Presidio was a military outpost made up of over 50 brick fortifications, built by the Spanish in the 1750s, and abandoned in 1776. Some time after this, Mexican forces would occupy and rebuild the post in order to protect their miners, who had found plentiful deposits of silver in the area. In the early 1850s, Mormons who were traveling to California used the outpost as a stopover shelter. In 1856, a group of Texan miners used it as a base of operations..
    The Fort Yuma Ruins are the remains of an old fortified town built on the banks of the Colorado River, near the modern town of Yuma in Yuma County. Fort Yuma began as a Spanish mission in 1700, until its destruction at the hands of belligerent natives. The catalyst for what would ultimately become Fort Yuma was the beginning of the Gold Rush in California. In 1850, the fortified town was built and became a crucial focal point, and later it became a

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  • Treasure Hunting in Arizona - Lost Dutchman Gold Mine

    Lets start big, and lets talk about Arizona’s most prolific treasure story, and that is

    The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine Treasure
    East of Phoenix, Arizona, up in the precipitous Superstition Mountains, lies a hidden treasure responsible for ruining the lives of more than a few of its seekers, at least according to legend. This treasure is named the Lost Dutchman Mine, and the legends surrounding it are as vast as they are inconsistent. One of the most well-documented accounts can be found in The Curse of the Dutchman’s Gold, written by Helen Corbin. It pertains to a man named Jacob Waltz, a native of Wurttemberg, Germany, who moved to the US in 1846. He became a naturalized citizen in July 1861, and thereafter became a prospector. Between 1872 and 1878, Waltz, along with his colleague Jacob Weisner, was said to have found gold in a quartz vein that was around 18 inches wide. They then proceeded to mine some ore, which they cached nearby. Work continued on the mine for some time, until Weisner’s untimely death at the hands of a band of Apaches. Distraught, Waltz decided to leave the mine behind. He took enough ore to sustain himself, concealed the mine’s entrance, and never looked back. He also never bothered to file a claim for the mine. Waltz moved to Phoenix, and set up a farm by the Salt River.
    Waltz then transitioned to a life of farmsteading from prospecting. One of his customers was a woman named Julia Thomas, a baker whom he delivered eggs to. In 1891, Waltz found out that Julia was in debt. With her bakery on the line, Waltz took pity on her and offered to help her pay off the debt. He then showed her some of his gold ore valued at $1,500, much to Julia’s bewilderment. In her time knowing him, she only thought of him as a farmer of modest means.
    Waltz then told her that he had experience in trading gold from Casa Grande, and that he would ship that ore to a smelter in San Francisco. He expressed that he had a lot of familiarity with how gold trades are done, and promised to lend her most of the returns from this one.
    He then proceeded to tell her about the cache, and the mine. He professed that he deliberately gave up the rights to it, recounting his grief due to the loss of his partner decades prior. Waltz admitted to Julia that his sorrow was such that he never wanted to work there again. And even if he wanted to, he continued, he was too old for prospecting.
    Nevertheless, Waltz promised that he would take Julia to the mine, and pass over ownership to her once she’s seen it for herself, asking only for a small share of the wealth. He and Julia planned to go to the Superstitions in the spring of the following year, along with Julia’s adoptive son Rhinehart Petrasch, to take the remaining gold in Waltz’s cache. However, things would take an unfortunate turn when Waltz’s house was flooded that summer. The Salt River is by and large a relatively dry river, but that summer’s torrential rains had swelled it with excessive runoff. Waltz would catch pneumonia from this flood, and die of it on October 25, 1891, a scant few months before their planned trip. Just before he died, he supposedly told Julia and Rhinehart that there was a portion of gold ore he set aside for himself under his fireplace. He was also reported to have drawn them a rough map that revealed the location of the mine. But Julia and Rhinehart would unfortunately be robbed of Waltz’ final gift, and even more distressful was the fact that they would never manage to find the mine.
    As sparse in details as this story is, it was enough for thousands of treasure hunters to trek the Superstitions in search of the Lost Dutchman Mine. Several of these seekers would lose their lives, with some even meeting unexplainable or grisly fates. Only a few individuals were able to rein in their hunger for Waltz’ treasure trove and come home with something of at least some substance.
    One such individual was a man named Bob Corbin. In 1957, Corbin started to look for the legenda

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  • Treasure Hunting in Rhode Island - Roberts Corner, Waterman Tavern Rochambeau's Army Encampment

    I'm trying to find waterman tavern uh which is uh his historic house I'm on my way to try to find an encampment of Russian army been looking already for an hour for this place and the directions addresses given were false the waterman's tavern was built in 1747 by john waterman and he was licensed to operate tavern Russian bus army stopped by during its march from providence to Yorktown in 1781 had to interview some locals and i believe i have found the place,

    wow that is it and the main army camped right near the tavern and the officers were quartered right in tavern itself there is two very old historical cemeteries very close by so i am here ladies and gentlemen waterman tavern the place where Rochambeau's army on its way to white plains new york camped between june 18 and june uh 22nd of 1781 and they play they were right here in the tavern uh somebody lives there so i don't really want to show it too much but they were right here at the camp in that tavern uh for between those four days it's a very interesting interesting place uh this whole area is very interesting it's it's a residential area right now if you enjoy this program please like it subscribe it and share it i wonder if some of these soldiers perhaps died during this day very old cemetery as you can see is marked by a RI historical cemetery town of coventry. let's take a closer look what we can find some dates in memory of samuel
    boring game who died june 26 1844 this is certainly historical i just wonder if there are any older
    graves here you certainly are unmarked unmarked graves i wonder if there is any fallen
    soldiers from a revolutionary era interesting to know what looks like all the graves the inscriptions are no longer readable there are definitely definitely graves here from earlier times 1700s for sure
    right across there is another cemetery also very very old let's take a closer look i don't know if we'll be able to read any inscriptions these seem to be very very old yeah this is unreadable yeah
    1874 1756 difficult to read this one looks like it broke off but we definitely had this particular grave in 1700 hundreds there is four more gravestones that survived let's take a closer look
    1879. yeah looks like they are similar it looks like a family we seem a little older this um is definitely readable it's a little bit earlier 1816. if you enjoy this program please like it subscribe it and share it

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  • Treasure Hunting New Hampshire missing silver Madonna Rogers Rangers Abenaki Indians Abenaki killed

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    statue of the Virgin Mary is one of the most prized and sought-after and coveted lost treasures in new england and it is only two and a half foot tall believe it pure silver statue of virgin mary it is said to be priceless and but it is easily worth several million dollars right now so it would be nice to recover it uh for the church the silver madonna was stolen from the small indian village in quebec canada called saint francis this pure silver statue of madonna was stolen from the catholic chapel in saint francis village by the soldiers of major robert rogers during a brutal and violent raid this raid was partially the result of increasing tensions resulting from constant violence along the canadian border between the french canadians and the british colonists on the u.s side the commander of british troops lord jeffrey amherst ordered major roberts and his rangers to attack this peaceful small indian village named saint francis major rogers and his rangers were very undisciplined violent did not wear uniforms and were basically regarded as hired killers in the middle of the night rangers rogers and his band numbering about 200 rangers stormed the defenseless abenakis men women and children these hired killers attacked the defenseless village without mercy they pulled the indians from their shelters and clapped the abenakis shot stopped scout and mutilated them without mercy men women and children even the priest was killed then they rubbed the chapel from its golden chalices candlesticks silver and gold crosses as they made their way towards the altar rangers stopped and stirred in amazement at the incredibly stunning statue of silver virgin mary with the flames that reflected from the burning altar of the chapel a few moments passed before the rangers with the great hesitation moved and lifted this incredible figure of silver virgin carried it outside and placed it on a horse fearing pursuit the rangers quickly assembled and started retreating towards fort ticonderoga near the new york vermont border where the commander lord jeffrey amherst was stationed sure enough a force of french soldiers with over 100 indians were quickly closing in on them roberts decided to divide his company to elude the pursuers he continued with about half of the men on the trail south but the remaining rangers carrying madonna and other stolen church valuables went off the trail towards east not much time went by when the pursuers caught up with the two groups of the struggling rangers and the fighting began with heavy tolls on both sides the group carrying the madonna was caught by the pursuers and only after couple of days of running and defending themselves more than 40 of them were already killed many more was starting to desert them just going away through the woods to make things worse a snow storm hit the area which caught them by surprise upon approaching the lower end of lake mead frey mahog spelled m-e-m-p-h-r-e-m-a-h-o-g
    on the border of quebec and vermont they abandoned the horse carrying crosses and candlesticks and other valuables from the church because it horse became lame they didn't even bother to try to bury it they just didn't have enough time for it the rangers crossed the lake and went southeast towards the connecticut river the rangers were in sorry ragged shape hungry and tired plodding through the woods of vermont being constantly assaulted by the french pursuers without food they continued to push the horse carrying silver madonna after crossing connecticut river in new hampshire by the today's town of lancaster they continued upstream of the israel river reaching the foothills of white mountains three more days of difficult travel found the men eating the letter of the back skins as they were starving and so they stopped but climbed a steep path switchbacking from the riverbank and found a shelter from an overhanging rock where they killed the h

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  • Treasure Hunting New Hampshire Pennichuck Pond-Marie Antoinette lost Diamond Neckless

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    Pennychuck Pond spelled p-e-n-n-i-c-h-u-c-k
    pond is a small lake located a little over two miles away from nashua new hampshire and holds the most fabulous treasure ever known to this country an incredible diamond necklace commissioned in france by marie antoinette in 1788 marie antoinette was the wife of king louis xvi uh who of course we know was guillotine he was the last french king in 1788 marie antoinette hired a famous french jeweler to design and to fabricate the most elaborate diamond necklace the world has ever seen her agents went throughout europe to search and purchase the finest diamonds available after the necklace was crafted it was described as the most stunning and extraordinarily beautiful crafted piece of jewelry the world has ever seen with dozens of very large and superbly cut diamonds the cost at the time was equivalent to about 1 million dollars at the same time the french revolution was picking up steam and marie antoinette was more and more concerned that the peasants would confiscate her precious jewels including the necklace and so she packed the necklace into a small box made of metal and hid it in the wooden trunk along with other items other jewelry and shipped it to eastern canada which contain many loyal frenchmen
    in the meantime the french revolution reached its bloody climax and marie antoinette was guillotined in 1793
    and even though the person in charge of the necklace was never identified around 1790 so the three years before had death a french man with an indian companion brought a wooden trunk from canada into maine and consequently into new hampshire they stayed in nashua for about a week behaving in a very secret ways and talking to almost no one in town and then they parked the wagon rode away towards northwest and only about two months later they turned southwest and kept going next right next to the penny chuck brook
    a few minutes later they ended up penny chuck pond build the cavender and settle in for the next several years they would not receive anyone at the cabin and the indian had to return to canada several times but on his last trip the frenchman was so worried about the safety of the trunk that he buried it on the shore of the lake placing a large rock on top of it
    before his indian companion returned the frenchman died the indian buried him and then he returned to canada while in canada he wondered what happened to the trunk but when going through the frenchman's belongings he came across an entry in his journal stating that the trunk was buried under the rock on the shore of the lake not until 20 years later indian returned to new hampshire to the pond looking for the trunk but found many rocks on the shore and could not locate it uh he actually came back with a constable and together they looked back but could not find it many treasure hunters tried to locate it years after but without results in 1983 boy scouts who camped on the shore of penny chuck pond found sticking pieces of wood old wood out of the sands remnants of the wooden chest as they confirmed later through the troop leader actually was more knowledgeable obviously it will happen and he confirmed that this this was so old and and had the luck and everything was definitely the chest the wooden chest so that the remnants of that wooden chest were right near the area of the waterline of the lake and of course the scoutmaster knowing the story of the lost diamond necklace looked with boy scouts for it but despite the efforts nothing was found if discovered this diamond necklace would most likely be worth at least tens of millions of dollars most likely priceless today and possibly it just lies below the surface in a metal box if you enjoy this program please like it subscribe it and share it here is additional information from previous video on sandy gordon a ruthless evil and fearless pirate in early 18th century considered by others as

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  • Treasure Hunting New Hampshire Londoner island-Star Island-White Island-Seabrook Beach-Merrimack

    More information from previous video regarding smarinos and londoner islands which are a site of substantial treasure buried by the pirate blackbeard what happened to the fabulous blackbeard's treasure there are a couple of incidents that prove that blackbeard indeed buried treasure at the isles of shawls in 1820. captain samuel haley of smut nose island uncovered five bars of silver on the shore and after selling those for three thousand dollars he built a breakwater across the malaga island the second incident took place during the second world war when several of the government officials went ashore on londoner island and they have made some very interesting discoveries they have found definite indications that there was substantial amount of silver still buried on that landing side of the beach facing star island hotel the exact location is about halfway across the half moon stretch of the beach we've been told that blackbeard

    and his loot that he buried the the silver bars on that island and his crew also buried some silver bars uh in considerable quantity of uh and in addition to that he buried large quantities and his crew of pieces of silver on smarinos island captain haley found silver bars on smarty's island but he never found the pieces of it so the remainder of the treasure according to them is just below the water line on the beach east of the breakwater at smarinos we were told that uh the silver bars were uh probably worth thousands of dollars but are so far down in the sand that it would be a very costly experiment to locate them and to bring them to the surface according to the government officials and according to the previous owner who was actually conveying that information as well he said that he's been within a few feet of the silver bars or the silver location saying both my father and i agreed that there is no doubt that the treasure is still buried down in ascend between the high and low water marks and yes we will share 50 50 with any ambitious person who cares to search for it after they have the permission in writing to land on the island descent unfortunately shifts so rapidly out here that after every storm you think you might know where to look one week but the next week everything would be changed but the silver doesn't move much as it is too heavy and it's there waiting for someone with resources and the feeling for adventure to go after he said
    the government gave up searching saying that it would take several thousand dollars for treasures and palms and that it was in writing signed by prudence rendall
    did blackbeard himself leave any clues as to where his treasure was buried it is said that on the eve of his last battle that he lost one of the teachers henchmen questioned him about it and the pirate's reply was typical to him he said nobody but the devil and myself know where my treasure is and the longer liver of the two shall have it all after blackbeard's head was brought into the town of bath after his death it was obtained by one of the influential men in the town who had its skull lined with silver inside and out after which the bolder members of the family would challenge each other to drink toasts from it later it became the property of one of the members of the college fraternity who had it reserved and initiations were instituted whereby any person who wished to qualify for the fraternity would have to drink a pint of wine from blackbird's skull when the fraternity dissolved about the time of the american revolution this one of a kind drinking cup was reclaimed by its owner who then bought a tavern on the patomak river at his death his son continued the tavern and exhibited the silver skull from time to time john bernard a writer about his travels wrote in 1886 in his retrospections of america in which he quoted we spend our time in fishing's excursions to the patiomac frequently dining at the tavern on its banks here a drinking vessel supposed to give extra punch!

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  • Treasure Hunt New Hampshire isles of shoals Smutty Nose Monhegan Island Lunging Island Wilmot Flat
    Let's talk about another crew on the ship called Porpoise, so the crew sailed away in the Porpoise leaving behind sandy and martha one day after they sailed away they spotted a fleet of four ships offshore they were pirate vessels when the pirate came ashore to the island for water sandy talked to them and was invited aboard the flagship to talk to the commander of the fleet here he met a joined forces he met and joined the forces with the men already in famous as the terror of the sea a six foot six-inch giant sporting two-foot beard with pistols and cutlass tucked in to his wide waist belt just to go back a little bit so sandy and his wife young my wife martha they were basically living on this island without anybody around for a long time and basically were rescued by the ship by blackbeard who was that six foot six in giant and they struck an agreement ed teach alas blackbeard apparently got a kick out of sandy's plight of being marooned by the purpose crew so he allowed sandy to join him sailing the atlantic the pirate fleet captured a french brick and spanish galleon containing of a million dollars in gold and silver on its way to the king of spain the french brick was renamed the flying scot by blackbeard and given to sandy gordon to command as a reward for his bravado in a fight with the french and spaniards the pirate vessels were now so filled with treasure that blackbeard decided to head for the nearest landfall to rid of themselves of some of it the nearest landfall a port where pirates were welcomed was new hampshire's isles of shoals as with philip bob the story of blackbeard and sandy gordon at the isles have been mixed with the legend over the last 270 years it is said that there was a great ceremony and celebration at star island when sandy gordon officially married martha herring that same day blackbeard married a girl he had aboard his 40 gunship queen anne's revenge now blackbeard never took marriage seriously however for during his lifetime he had 14 wives and never went to sea without bevy of concubines when he was killed in 1718 40 children claimed him as their father sandy and martha did take their marriage vows seriously and settled at white island one of the isles but the honeymoon was brief the english navy had been searching uh the atlantic for the purpose mutineers for over a year a man of war came to the isle shortly after sandy and martha set up housekeeping on white island blackbeard after staying at star island for over a month wisely set sail and left the isles but gordon in the flying scot went out to battle the naval warship two well-directed broadsides and the flying scot sank like a rock with sandy gordon in his favorite bright red uniform going down with her supposedly only two of the pirate crew survived the sinking and they were picked up by the men of war crew and hanged at the yard arm that very day the only member of the pirate band left at the isles was martha herring gordon who died there in 1735. celia attacks the right teachers comrade captain scott gordon wrote this lovely lady hitler they buried immense treasure on the islands that of scott gordon was buried on an island apart from the rest the maiden was carried to the island where her pirate lover's treasure was hidden and made to swear with horrible rights that until his return if it were not till the day of judgment she would guard it from search of all mortals so there she faces steel still she laments like a banshee before the tempest wailing through the gorgeous apple door blackbeard and his men forced to quickly depart the isles and never return buried the treasure on smiley nose and london their islands wrote one isles historian londoner isle island is now called lounging island blackfield's blackbeard's treasure is buried at the landing side of the beach facing the star island hotel halfway across the halfmoon stretch of the beach writes another historian a third says blackbeard's treasure is hidden just below the wat
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  • Treasure Hunting in New Hampshire isles of shoals-Appledore Island-pirate John Quelch-Gossport Harbor-Smuttynose Island-Cape Ann-Snake Island-Star Island-Nix Mate PART I

    The isles of shoals in new hampshire's only claim to sold water islands the best known of the isles according to historians historians such as celia taxter who was brought up there in the mid 1800s she writes at the time of the first settlement the islands were infested by pirates john scribner also a historian of the previous century writes there is a strong ground for suspicion indeed that the islanders were generally indulgent and sometimes friendly and serviceable in their intercourse with the numerous pirate ships which visited the harbour one islander who befriended pirates and probably was a pirate himself was phillip bob babb legend has it that he was one of captain kids mates but he couldn't have been for he died at the isles in 1671. he's supposed to have been so desperately wicked when alive writes celia taxed her that there is no rest for him in this in his grave his dress is coarse she says of his spirit uh stripe butchers frog with a leather belt to which is attached a sheath containing a ghosty knife sharp and glittering which is his delight to brandish in the face of terrified humanity bob lived on appledore the largest of the isles half a mile long and almost as wide his house was on the hill on the south side of the island near the cove here he dug a large pit with his friend ambrose gibbon in which he supposedly found a large treasure chest it was too heavy to lift out of the pit and smoke came from its lid when they tried to break the luck writes oscar lighten another isles historian there was also the smell of sulfur when which forced them to leave the chest obviously much of bob's shady life is cloaked in legend but all historians agree that bob did dig a great hall near the cove at appledore island it was filled in during the great storm of 1851 writes layton and the coast guard boathouse was later built over the treasure pit bob's ghost of course guards the buried treasure chest and so it seems wiser that more modern day treasure hunters concentrate on pirate caches that are known to be buried at the isles and are not haunted by a demented butcher pirate captain jack welch was a butcher of another sword for his creed was to kill everyone all aboard any vessel he captured and looted members of his bloodthirsty crew were actually caught in the act of burying gold at the isles his hierarchical career lasted only a year having begun when he was the first officer aboard the privateer charles out of boston there is speculation even to this day the charles anchored at gosport harbor at the isles of shoals prior to coming into marblehead and that the heavy 1200 or more silver bars were buried on the west side of appledore island while building a seawall at marino's island isles of shores in 1816 uh same halley jr uncovered four silver bars in the sand of south beach which were taught at the time to be part of quelch's buried treasure many marble harris believe that much of the treasure was buried only a few hundred feet from the town landing in fact treasure hunter's day was celebrated in may of each year in marblehead well into the 20th century no information on pirate treasure from the charles would have been forthcoming had not some members of the crew the day after the arrival frequented marblehead taverns spanning gold doubloons and nuggets of goldust for drinks and whilst in the cups divulge to tavern wenches the great riches of portuguese cargos they had taken off brazil of the 42 pirate crewmen aboard the charles governor dudley's constables capture seven within two days carrying on that person 45 ounces of gold and gold coins john clifford one of the pirates agreed to tell the attorney general everything about the voyage if he was pardoned he confessed that after arriving at marblehead a considerable quantity of goldust and gems was put out from salem to cape n with captain thomas larimore in the lotte morgali with 11 or more captain quelch's company the governor called out the militia militia and t

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  • Treasure Hunting in Connecticut Tryons Landing Wilton Windham Windsor Devils Pond Clark Island

    Tyron's landing the first puritans settled here in 1635 prior to six prior to 1640 there was a fort here east of the state prison which is now an apartment house site on north main street it would be very possible to find red space minerals here there have been two documented meteor landings one in 1971 and the other in 1982 there is a boulder that marks the site of a ferry site that crossed from connecticut river from 1674 to 1762 at the junction of marsh ferry and broad streets rare artifacts from a long ego are also found here dinosaur prints also have been discovered in town wilton is another place worth considering for exploring because in april 1770 welton was invaded by the british who were on the way to burn danbury the residents hid the silver and gold all around the area another town very interesting is called windham here residents had to bury the treasures before leaving to escape a raid by the french in 1758 the town was burned to the ground and many of the treasures are still buried the native american name for the area was quick homach which is nip mcword meaning shaking or trembling mountain there was also an ancient village on the fenton river in this area called now west sethunk which is a mohegan ward meaning small fish stream windsor is another place worth considering it was also known as maya tanak or dorchester it is thought that perhaps the vikings sailed up the connecticut river as far as windsor windsor in the year 1000 but no landing site was recorded however bronze viking implements and utensils were found near the enfield rapids and in plymouth metal on the farmington river perhaps there was a battle between the native americans and the vikings when the settlers first arrived these two places seemed taboo to the to the tribes the native american village here was called pacquona and the first satan was known as

    sheet s-h-e-a-t this was one of the stations that asked the english for help in the war against the piquants in 1631. this request and the constant attacks by the pequot on settlers who were living in connecticut were the main reasons that the massachusetts settlers declared war against the pequot and eventually settled in connecticut ford's will build here in 1637 along the present-day palisado avenue in 1699 there was an old stone fort located about one mile north of congressional meeting house on the east side of the highway there was a native american trail between plymouth meadow in windsor and hartford it was said to be the first public highway used by the settlers there is a body of water called devil's pond devil spawned in the spring of 1758 it was reported by the inhabitants that the unseen demons began to growl and scream from the pond in the middle of the night waking everyone however it was not demons they were making the sound it was mating all frogs however the name of the pawn stayed the same the modern reader must remember that this was a strange completely unknown region to the settlers they were terrified and had no support from where they came from everything was scary and they had nowhere to turn to ask questions or find answers they had to supply their own theories as to why events happen this is the site of a battle in the pequod war it was also a trading post but the settlers were driven out by peak ones however it might be that native americans were living in this area well before the pequots came in 1973 native american artifacts were found from 1 600 era if you enjoy this program please like it subscribe it and share another captain kid buried treasure might be found on an island called klux or clark keys island the story is that kid thought to have traveled the connecticut river and left two chests on his last trip to boston while visiting his friend whiskey clarke or whisking clark the chest the chest were said to be left on clark island and have never been found one of kids ships a sloop called san antonio came ashore with a huge chest bulging with gold witnes

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This is Treasure Revealed, I will show you the possible locations of buried gold treasure, silver treasure and other valuable objects not only in every state of United States, but in other parts of the world using my many years of extensive research. There are two types of locations, one is based on evidence that something valuable was buried and second one is based on historical events that happened here, therefore there is a high probability of finding valuable items as well.