Dans discription of what one may go through was good. Outlaw loot is buried at or near Money Point. Long before New York became a state there were pirates who roamed the islands here to bury treasure that was lost to the hands of time. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The 4,340-foot, Allen Mountain is one of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks. There are two different versions of this story the first states that British Officer Barrimore Matthew Barry St. Leger buried a chest of gold coins and bars while he was retreating from the Battle of Oriskany in 1777. GT Parkers, 1 mile S (GT) Rector In Niagara county the steamer Alexander sank at Youngstown in 1915. But I let logic prevail to counter the feeling and reminded myself of my direction path and time as I increasingly observed my surroundings for clues. It should be the first thing you put on in the morning, even before your underwear, and the last thing you take off in the evening. The other top level gangsters were not convinced. Being one of the most important ports of entry for immigrants to the U.S. means a whole lot of history and along with that many lost treasure tales to tell. The Butlers were Tori raiders Loyalists to the British Crown a much-hated pair in the area. In Sullivan county A large amount of Tory treasure in concealed in a cave in the Shawanjunk Mountains near Summitville.A cache known as Faquer Treasure consisting of $50,000 in gold coins is buried near Bethel. So Shultz was worried he would be sent to prison on tax evasion charges the same fate as Al Capone. St. Lawrence county Lord Amherts buried $100,000 in gold coins on Treasure island during the Revolution.Rumors of buried treasure by French soldiers in the area of Fort Levis on Chimney Island below Ogdensburg.River pirate Patterson buried a large cache in 1813 on banks of Chippewa creek.GT(ghost town) Louisville landing, 5 miles W of MassenaGT Converse, 6 miles ENE of PotsdamGT Harper, 3 1/2 miles SE of ParishvilleGT Eddy, 2 miles NE of Dekalb JunctionGT Osborneville, 7 miles ESE of Pope millsGT Hollywood, 7 miles NW of ChildwoldFranklin county $175,000 in gold coins was buried by Mt. This setback infuriated New York Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, with implications no one could foresee at the time. While it was the end of Dutch Schultz, man and criminal, we may never see the end of Dutch Schultz, the legend. He buried $400,000 in gold and silver coins close by his cabin. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. The Loomis gang was a family of outlaws in the mid-1800s. The slave had been killed, it was surmised, that his spirit might watch the hoard and drive away intruders, but the Frenchman met his fate elsewhere, and his secret, like that of many another miser, perished with him. On Isle Royal an island on the St. Lawrence River which is located off the port of Waddington, NY. Much of it is now paved so the treasure could be buried somewhere under those paved parkway roads on the island. This does not mean roll around in leaf litter and have a good laugh, although that might help. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. When not paying attention, very soon the hiker is in unknown territory with no trail in sight and no knowledge of where they are or how they got there. And yet, he always called himself a "salesman." At first I would allow myself to be unsure of exactly where I was for long stretches, but I had always studied the map and had a substantial backstop and a compass direction that would assure my arrival at recognizable points of terrain. As primarily a solo hunter, he always impressed me with how well he knew how to precisely navigate far into the backcountry. When the Hessian troops marched from Saratoga, New York to Boston, Massachusetts, to take ship after Burgoynes surrender, they were in wretched condition-war-worn, ragged, and ill-fed, and having much with them in the form of plate and jewels that had been spared by their conquerors, together with some of the money sent from England for their hire, they were in constant fear of attack from the farmers, who, though they had been beaten, continued to regard them with an unfavorable eye. As a bonus, you see and experience more of what and why you are out there in the first place. Murdering a man so high up in law enforcement, and so highly admired, (Dewey was to run for President in 1944 and 1948) was sure to cause much expensive trouble for them as well as Dutch. In about 1800, the supposed hiding place was examined closely, and excavations were made, but, as before, nothing rewarded the search. Malone is the county seat of Franklin County, New York. The Germans were planning on blowing up the railroad trestle in Liberty, and were carrying a large sum of cash. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents in the Adirondacks. Learning how to anticipate it and manage the natural panic can make the crucial difference between getting yourself out of a sticky situation, an embarrassing rescue, or worse. When New London was sound asleep, the young men stole out and, by lantern light, began their work. Contact Johnathan Croyle: Email | 315-427-3958. However, if he saw the burial of this novel treasury, it meant nothing to him, and the knowledge of the hiding place was lost. Get a grip on it or you will be lost. Province Island, in Lake Memphremagog, Vermont, is believed to contain some of the profits of an extensive smuggling enterprise carried on near the lake for several years. He was about to tell where it was when the death rattle choked his words. The areas around most of the lean-tos had become somewhat abused, with trees stripped of branches and bark, increased erosion. Unidentified British payroll ship sank near S end of Wolf island $30,000 on board. Unfortunately, if you ask many dedicated trail hikers where they are at any given moment, especially if they are not leading a group, all they may know is someplace between here and there, with no idea how to figure out exactly where they are. A Frenchman by the name of Clairieux and his companion named Julius Caesar lived on Grand Island now known as Buckhorn Island State Park in the late 1700s. amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "raregold-20"; The Monarch wrecked off Toronto Canada with 250 ton cargo in 1856. If you are ever in New York City you might want to check out the Museum of the City of New York. The building of Great Camps during the 1880s and 1920s confirm the desire to escape to the Adirondacks for rest and relaxation. An Indian had silently followed them for a long distance to gather up any unconsidered trifles that might be left in their bivouacs, and he marked the route by blazes on the trees. Strange noises overhead for the wind was high, and the twigs seemed to snicker eerily as they crossed each other-sent thrills along his back from time to time, and he was about to return, half in anger, half in fear, when his spirit visitor emerged from behind the tree and stood before him. You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. Hit in the spleen, stomach, colon and liver, Dutch lingered in Newark City Hospital while running a 106 degree fever. A wreck lay rotting here for many years, and it was said to be the skeleton of a ship that these fellows had beached by false beacons. The hermit Clairieux supposedly buried several chests of treasure on Grand Island. On or near the beaches of Dunkirk, New York. It occurred at the southern tip of Lake Champlain, near Whitehall, already the site of many historic lake-related treasures. The cabin was supposed to be close to the beginning of the brook that led into the pond. Close by, other coins of a later date were found. amzn_assoc_asins = "0878421807,0762779004,0764343343,0899332757,0801886821"; With the repeated mention of fine textured glacial gold, it is worth noting that the occurrence of fine gold is not a rule in New York or anywhere else in the Northeast; sometime on rare occasions, the receding glaciers did leave behind coarse gold and an occasional gold nugget that a prospector can find. It is said that St. Leger buried the chest of gold in a farmers field just outside Fort Stanwix. Avoid areas that appear very light colored, sandy, or muddy, as these places are less likely to produce. And do not forget to take it with you when taking an emergency midnight dump too. She had costly freight aboard, and on the morning after she went ashore, crew and freight had vanished. The heart quickens in the chest, the echo of the frequent beats drowning out the surrounding natural sounds. It just means you made a terrifying discovery, as everything around you looks unfamiliar, and you no longer know where you are. He attempted, and his pick struck a crock that gave a chink, as of gold. I suggest that you dont look for this treasure during the summer months because the swamps in the area produce an enormous amount of mosquitoes and from what I have heard there is an abundance of bees in the area. When things go bad, they go bad all at once. It was declared that when the French evacuated the region, they buried money and bullion in a well, in the northwest corner of the bastion, 90 feet deep, in the full expectancy of regaining it. The opportunities in crime were far more abundant and lucrative, and so when he was paroled out of prison in 1920, he began working in for various trucking companies. What they mostly transported was illegal alcohol. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc, or its affiliates. Attention Upstate New York treasure hunters: A stash of Nazi cash is waiting to be collected. You will have to solve a set of clues left by the original owner. With that said, there are quite a few active gold prospectors in the State of New York, and we have a hunch that they are successfully finding a little bit of glacial gold. Nothing should look too familiar, if it does you are not bushwhacking. The U.S. confiscated the Butlerbury mansion which still stands today. This veteran, torn and broken by many a gale and lightning-stroke, was once a gallows, and Goody Glover had swung from it in witch-times. He was either too sorry for his deeds or too mean to do so. Plus, keep track of location and direction! Dutch was determined to end this threat to his "business" and held a meeting of the Syndicate where he outlined his assassination plan. Though he turned up many a rood of soil and sounded with his spade for bags and chests of gold, he found nothing. Grand Island is now a nature preserve called Buckhorn Island State Park. Pull some food out of your backpack and eat it. He had many tales of the nights he would be awakened by a man who was paying for gasoline for the line of trucks that would be showing up shortly. About the Author: Charles M. Skinner (1852-1907) authored the complete nine-volume set of Myths and Legends of Our Own Land in 1896. I believe that my dad gave me the right attitude when I was very young (long before I was allowed to carry a gun) as he taught me to hunt with him, and how he gradually set me loose on what amounted to increasing solo bushwhacks to favored watch locations. In New York's Adirondacks Mountains, a wave of hotels and resorts is recapturing the rustic glamour of the region's 19th . With that said, glacial gold deposits are still present here just as in all of the other states in the Northeast, so there is definitely some gold to be found. While learning these skills, dont cheat with a GPS. Rawlings included a chapter about the lost Confederate treasure in his 2017 book The Strange Journey of the Confederate Constitution, And Other Stories from Georgia's Historical Past, and also . When lost, roll stands for the process of breaking bread. The stream is also known as Spectre Brook, for late wandering hunters and scouting soldiers, seeing the forgers moving to and fro about their furnaces, took them for ghosts. After stopping, the second thing to do is drop your backpack and sit down. The catch? Change). As far as recreational gold prospecting is concerned, there are a few things to consider. However, using the knowledge that we have about glacial gold and how glaciers have deposited gold all throughout the Upper Midwest and northeastern U.S., we can speculate that nearly any area that was covered by glaciers at one time could potentially contains some gold. Egill Skallagrmsson 's silver. During the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway in the 1950s, much of the island, and the fort upon it, was dredged and destroyed. The seven cities of Cibola that Coronado and other Spanish adventurers sought in the vast deserts of the Southwest were pueblos. Aided by his son, he tunneled the solid granite for a distance of 135 feet, the passage being seven feet high and seven wide. The Spaniards were said to have entombed $300,000 in gold near Natchez, Mississippi. Legends, Ghosts, Myths and Mysteries Main Page, Byways & Historic Trails Great Drives in America, Soldiers and Officers in American History, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas Declaring Independence, Stanley, Ks Extinct but Still Here (LOK), Black Bob Reservation in Johnson County (LOK), Make History Come Alive With These Online Tools and Resources. This cannot be said for New York however. This is true of all placer gold, but is especially important with glacial gold deposits due to their extremely fine texture. Catch up on all your Adirondacknews, delivered weekly to your inbox, Emotions high over proposed Old Forge housing project, Local history project takes high-tech approach. His first was legally tangled enough to require a retrial, on charges of tax evasion over his rumored income of a "couple of million dollars." amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; Always know where you are. E.L. Doctorow wrote "Billy Bathgate," and in the feature film he was played by Dustin Hoffman. Confusing the jury was not only a time-honored legal tactic, it was a sensible one when the law was not as well-established as it is in modern times. Breathing becomes labored as if just summiting a faraway peak. The second version states while the British were retreating from the battle for Fort Stanwix trying to run to Canada that they threw a cannon that was sealed and had gold inside into a swamp near the old Route 69. However, before he had come to the end of the narrative, the visitor burst into a roar of laughter and confessed that he had personated the supernatural visitant, having wagered a dozen bottles of wine with the landlord of the Boars Head that he could get the better of Mike Wild. The spirit of the defrauded and murdered captain had claimed him, the medium explained. The Lost Warren silver mine is located somewhere in the Adirondack mountains. The information, views and opinions expressed by these various authors are not necessarily those of the Adirondack Almanack or its publisher, the Adirondack Explorer. Acres of the neighborhood were then dug over by treasure hunters, who found a box of cob dollars and several casks. A man to whom the secret had descended offered to reveal it, but his offer was laughed at as he was a prisoner. Near a notch in Dug Mountain, between Silver and Hatchery Brooks is a lost silver mine once operated by the English. They refused permission, and Dutch erupted with his well-known temper, declaring he was going to do it anyway. Robert Gordon is said to have buried a chest of wealth near Whitehall or at the bottom of Hudson Barge Canal. Eventually I found I could pretty much pinpoint my exact location by just having paid attention to all the constant terrain navigation clues that exist everywhere, with my eyes open and brain engaged as I move along. Spaniards worked the mines in the Ozark Hills of Missouri in the late 17th century. He is also life-long naturalist with a Master of Science in Ecology from SUNY ESF and 10+ seasons working as a field biologist, five inside the Blue Line. With that said, glacial gold deposits are still present here just as in all of the other states in the Northeast, so there is definitely some gold to be found. Too terrified to work longer, they sprang out and made away, and when-taking courage from the sunshine they renewed the search; next day, the iron chest had vanished. Thank of the Facebook and smart phone apps! Two years of wandering, fighting, and carousal ensued before the remnant of the crew returned to Oregon. In the mud within this circle, he found several French gold and silver coins, one minted in 1537. Some very early reports from early settlers in the state indicated that they did in fact find a bit of gold, but the concentrations were so small that it did not warrant any significant interest and locations were not well documented. Whenever he was wearied the mediums that he consulted would tell him to make cuttings to the right or left, and for every fresh discouragement, they found fresh work. Email them to us and you and your club will receive full credit! Nonetheless, it is currently the law of the land in New York State. The verdict? It is because, like most people when happily hiking on known well-traveled trails, they tend to not observe or pay attention to constantly changing direction, terrain, and time in any meaningful way. But the rewards are great. But one thing is for sure only Dutch Schultz and his bodyguard Bernard Lulu Rosenkrantz knows the real truth. According to the Daily Mail, the legend of the Nazi loot has puzzled the people of Liberty for over 20 years after the local newspaper first wrote about it. Thats the end of our treasure tales from the great state of New York. The seekers are always blinded by blue flame and frightened away by roaring noises. More photos. For years the populace kept watch of all strangers that came to town and shadowed them if they went to the woods, but without result. During the Revolutionary War, many treasures were lost and buried in the ground of New York. A pleasant hike in the Adirondack backcountry suddenly turns into a disaster. But declaring income from illegal activities was something they were understandably reluctant to do. The Dean Richmond was a propeller freighter that sunk off the coast of Lake Erie near Dunkirk, New York in the early morning hours of October 15, 1893. circa 960. Afterward, an empty vault was found where he said it would be. amzn_assoc_linkid = "cbde75136108817cd7f3a02391231015"; GT Beaverkill, 3 miles SW of LewbeachGT Wamsley, 4 miles E of RocklandGT Tennanah, 5 miles SW Roscoe on n edge of Long LakeGT Aden, 3 miles NW of Neversink Many early settlers buried their treasures and valuables in case of Indian attacks. In 1960 when bulldozing the area a man found $89,000 worth of coins which presumably are part of that treasure. As the lady properly objected to any risk to her own safety, the chest was buried at an unknown spot in the forest. Win a fun getaway! It was formerly best known as Money Hole, and the stream that courses through it as Money Brook, for a gang of counterfeiters worked in that recess, and there some spurious coinage may still be concealed. Rae sank in 1889 at Braddock point with a salvage value of $7,500.GT Otis, 3 miles NE of ClarksonGT Ogden, 3 miles SW of SpencerportGT Fish Ponds, 1 mile W of MumfordGT Cedar Swamp, 1 miles S of Henrietta. Compass can be lost (always carry at least 2). Then, as they were shoveling back the earth, he shot them dead, all three, and buried them, one on each barrel. The mien was threatening, the nose had reddened and extended, the hair was rumpled, and the brow was scowling. He has been visiting the Adirondacks since childhood and actively exploring its backcountry for almost two decades. Look at your map. In the case of being lost, stop, drop and roll has a totally different meaning than when applying it to fire safety. (When you tripped and broke your ankle you also smashed your emergency beacon.) A tree of unknown age the Old Elm stood on Boston Common until the late 19th century. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The mutineers rowed back to the ship, and after vainly waiting for several days for a chance to go on shore again, they sailed away. Listen to these voices that have ties to Upstate New York. In 1942, his plane was hijacked by two German saboteurs during a flight. During the examination of these relics possibly the bones of mutineers who had been killed in the fight onshore a man fell into a fit of raving madness, and again the search was abandoned, for it is now said that an immutable curse rests on the treasure. Every time, I can still hear his words: if you get mixed up, just stop and I will come find you (thankfully, that never happened). Bill Ott. To find the coin, Hillig is said to have left 25 clues behind to help locate it. This is just one of many examples where the natural response is not only dangerous, but could actually get you killed. In Washington county Robert Gordon is said to have buried a chest of wealth near Whitehall or at the bottom of Hudson Barge Canal. He tipped in $100 bills and bought "secret" rounds of drinks at local gathering spots. May also be in Ulster or Greene Counties. But before he died he is said to have told the police Dont let Satan draw you too fast Some believe that was a coded message referring to the town of Phoenicia because near the town there is a cropping of rocks called the Devils Face and a large rock called the Devils Tombstone. The cabin was at the north end of Follensby Pond just where the Branch enters into the lake. Dungeon Rock, of Lynn, is the places name ever since. The combination of bucolic small town and big city gangster was like catnip to the journalists of the era. Digging Deeper: Lost Treasures of Massachusetts. We know for certain that the same glacial deposits that are responsible for gold deposits all throughout the Midwest and Northeast have also left gold scattered all throughout New York State. Even gangsters of the prohibition have buried treasures in this great state. So far from having gold, these Indians did not know the stuff, but the myth that they had hoarded quantities of it survived and caused the waste of lives and money. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Digging coins, searching for treasure, discovering history. For all this, the old tree bore, for many years, an evil reputation. Those coins dated to the 1500s so they could have been part of Clairieuxs lost treasure. They had dug to the water level when they reached an iron chest, and they stooped to lift it-but, to their amazement, the iron was too hot to handle! On reaching Dalton, Massachusetts, the Hessians agreed to put their valuables into a howitzer, which they buried in the woods, intending that some of their number should come back at the close of the war and recover it. More information found in: New York Treasures and Metal Detecting Site. Salvage value listed at $50,000. 100 gold and silver coins were found by an old foundation near the water on the island in the 1800s. Tales of Ghostly Lost Treasure By Charles M. Skinner in 1896 The wealth of the Astors hardly exceeds the treasure that is supposed to be secreted here and there about the country, and thousands of dollars have been expended in dredging rivers and shallow seas and in blasting caves and cellars. Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents in the area a man found $ 89,000 worth coins. Loyalists to the 1500s so they could have been part of that.. But one thing is for sure only Dutch Schultz and his pick a. 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