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athens alabama - Digital Alabama By the early 1800s, the gang set up a hideout in Rocky Springs and, supposedly, buried tens of thousands of dollars in stolen gold and silver between the church and cemetery at Little Sand Creek near Rocky Springs.
A load of gold worth up to $54 million went missing during the Civil There were , also, over 2000 Tallassee Carbines hidden and never recovered. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Subscribe Today! Sep 27, 2005. In fact, when she died in 1946 at age 99 in Washington, D.C., she bequeathed almost $600,000 to the children of Brantley County through an endowment and two scholarship funds. JavaScript is disabled. He researched the archives of the Thornwell Orphanage and found no reference to the Confederacy or gold in any of the handwritten letters from Mrs. Parkhurst. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. January 6, 2022 / 11:11 AM In the movie, the characters are hunting for . By 1960, this scholarship fund was creating more income from its principal investment than there were recipients for the scholarships. This is the tale of what happened to the Confederate Treasury. Over the years the trapper kept trying to find Red Bone Cave and the treasure without avail. As heir to the Mumford estate, Miss Gertrude allegedly made provisions to return the balance of the Confederate treasure to Southern hands after her death. A second scholarship, known as the Sylvester Mumford Memorial Fund, was to be awarded to students from Brantley County who attend Georgia College, then known as Georgia State College for Women. Appreciative of the home the Mumfords provided and his opportunity for a college education, he set out to discover the facts behind the Confederate gold. 2nd Alabama Cavalry said: There seems to have been a great deal of attention placed on finding the "Lost Confederate Treasure" which has spanned the last 154 years since the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on 10 May 1865 at Irwinville, Ga., which brought the Civil War to a close. Numerous unnamed drainages will also produce placer gold for a hard working prospector. Mystery of Lost Confederate Gold. The FBI says it came up empty at the rural Pennsylvania site where Civil War gold is rumored to be buried. but where did the money come from? The remainder of her estate was divided between two scholarship funds. In June 1863, President Lincoln ordered two wagons with false bottoms to carry anywhere from 26 to 52 gold bars weighing 50 pounds each from Wheeling, West Virginia, 400 miles north to Pennsylvania to pay the Union troops . Louinas gold and silver could still be buried under the ground in that old ghost town! Originally published Aug 3, 2007 Last edited Mar 26, 2020. The Treasures of our past that still have yet to be found. The daughter didnt want anything to do with the braces that her father presented to her but she had an infatuation with the white trapper who recently came around. Lachlan McGillivray was a wealthy fur trader back in the mid to late 1700s. The Chickasaw Chief and some of his braces took the treasure the Spaniards had left behind and hide it in a big limestone cave which was located on the northern bank of the Tennessee River. It was a safer place to store the treasure because confederates were likely to win and hold Columbia. Its still hidden in a limestone cave called Red Bone. The Indians thought this request to be outrageous and attacked De Sotos camp. One day a rebel soldier came by and Hansen decided to lead him to the lost treasure so they could possibly retrieve it. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Imperial Seal of China created by Emperor Qin Shi Huang, lost after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in the 10th century. The FBI claimed their 2018 dig came up empty, but treasure hunters Dennis and Kem Parada aren't so sure. It is said that he would only accept gold coins as payment for the ground corn and flour that he sold. I have talked to the guy who wrote what you found on #2. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Until next time Happy Treasure Hunting! The townspeople decided to defend Newton but were worried that if they got defeated that the towns treasury would be looted. Had he known that in April of 1865 he, his cabinet and about $700,000 in gold and specie would have to evacuate Richmond to avoid capture during the waning days of the Civil War, he might have elected to remain in Montgomery. Moreover, he was unable to find any mention of the name Mumford in any record of the period. Near Athens there may be a Confederate treasure. Union forces were strong in the area north of Alabama so Hansen and two confederate soldiers decided to take the two boxes of treasure to Columbia where General Hood of the rebel troops was held up.
10 Lost Treasures of Tennessee (Civil War Gold) An FBI agent applied for a federal warrant in 2018 to seize a fabled cache of U.S. government gold he said was "stolen during the Civil War" and hidden in a Pennsylvania cave, saying the state . Postal Service in 2000 and still has family and friends in Brantley County. Sharps bought a mill there called Whites Mill in 1897. The Justice Department denied the request - and, as of last month, had yet to assign the FOIA request to a staffer for processing, according to the lawsuit.
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Confirmed. JavaScript is disabled. Dauphin Island held many camps over the centuries including a British army camp, a Spanish army camp, a Federal army camp, and a French army camp. It happened between the Confederate Armory which was not over run during the war and present day, Wall Street . I got the Keel Mountain story from a treasure hunter in west Tennessee, and it was a small, one-paragraph statement. In April 1953, he and his three brothers were the first children from Brantley County to derive benefit from the Mumford funds at the Thornwell Orphanage in Clinton, South Carolina, after their father died from a heart attack in 1951 at age 47. And some say its buried amongst the slaves in the graveyard on the property. After some minor resistance from roving Confederate bands, on April 11, 1862, his Union troops marched into Huntsville and occupied the city. The folk ballad by Lonnie Donegan was named after him. circa 990-995. Alexander Beckham's old plantation about two miles north of Tiptonville, Tennessee. It definitely would be worth taking a metal detector to the beach. Today the town has only two homes standing that are in use. If you ever get out to Dauphin Island speak with the natives there and they will tell you about all the history and treasure stories that went on on the island. Here's how this gold war began, according to a Pittsburg Post-Gazette article about a 1983 story in Lost Treasure magazine. Another had the group split up because of Castletons fever, with the lieutenants group taking the gold and disappearing. Legend of the Lost Confederate Gold Posted on December 5, 2020 December 31, 2020 by Terry W. Platt Confederate gold refers to hidden caches of gold lost after the American Civil War. Treasure hunters who believe they found a huge cache of fabled Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania are now on the prowl for something as elusive as the buried booty itself: government records of the FBI's excavation. He would then bury the wine casks in various areas around his homestead. President Davis pleaded with Lee to form defense lines for just one more day and informed his cabinet that Richmond was to be evacuated and that they would take the Confederate treasury with them. Supposedly, Nunez buried a treasure of approximately $200,000 somewhere near a point where route 90 crosses the river. The troops were trying to keep the gold and silver away from Union soldiers. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. When he would return he wouldnt have the sack with him. In the 1966 Spaghetti Western movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," the protagonists get information about lost Confederate gold hidden in a . She was a cargo ship that held deer hides, beaver pelts, tobacco, and 40,000 crowns of gold and silver bullion and coins. De Soto and his men fled and left the treasure they had stolen from the Cherokees behind. She made her money by running a trading post and she was one of the only Indian women to have owned slaves. Byron Campbell.
Lost Confederate Gold - J. Mark Powell But during heavy rains, the river would rise fast and recede slowly so during those times people could not cross. The crew members that survived and made it to shore said there was a million dollars worth of gold and silver aboard. The chief wanted him to marry his daughter.
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