It is said that St. Leger buried the chest of gold in a farmers field just outside Fort Stanwix. By the time Prohibition went into effect in 1919, gangsters were starting to get caught in a new trap that they never dealt with before. Plus skills , I agree. Listen to these voices that have ties to Upstate New York. Between driving everywhere, reading email, texting and surfing the computer (hopefully not all at the same time), todays culture rewards people on the go, where thinking is frowned on as being unproductive. The Dakotah sank in Lake Erie off Angola shore carrying $500,000 of copper and $50,000 in cash. You will have to solve a set of clues left by the original owner. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Gps can go out (everything made by man eventually breaks). The Germans were planning on blowing up the railroad trestle in Liberty, and were carrying a large sum of cash. This is often the most difficult step, especially these days since we live in a culture where always doing something is the norm. He told the Daily Mail, "If the treasure is real, Otto Hillig would be exactly the type of person to hide it. When he recovered, the crock was gone, the hole filled in, and the light has hovered about the place ever since then. * Federal Move Cuts Maximum Sentence Possible to 16 Years, $40,000 Fine He had left his mansion at Smiths Pond, New Hampshire, and was making it toward Portsmouth, where he was to enjoy the protection of the British fleet. In the fall, after these visits of the sloop, Clairieux disappeared, and when some hunters landed on the island, they found that his cabin had been burned and that a large skeleton, evidently that of the black man, was chained to the earth in the center of the place where the house had stood. Other prominent gangsters decided Dutch had caused enough trouble. Human bones have been found here, too, but they are thought to be those of soldiers that entered the cave in pursuit of an Indian chief who had defied the State in the 1840s. A cache known as Faquer Treasure consisting of $50,000 in gold coins is buried near Bethel. More than 40 years after these events, a meeting of Spiritualists was held in Columbia City, and a medium announced that she had received a revelation of the exact spot where the goods had been concealed. In 1852 Hiram Marble announced that he had been visited by spirits, who not only told him that the pirates spoils were still in their olden hiding place but pointed out the spot where the work of excavation should begin. 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." A large amount of Tory treasure in concealed in a cave in the Shawanjunk Mountains near Summitville. I loved it. He would always pay in gold coins. Robert Gordon is said to have buried a chest of wealth near Whitehall or at the bottom of Hudson Barge Canal. As far as recreational gold prospecting is concerned, there are a few things to consider. (LogOut/ 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. Breathing becomes labored as if just summiting a faraway peak. 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. It was as if the ground had never been disturbed. The catch? New York State is one of the most interesting states of the whole of the United States. 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. Rumor and folklore say that Follensby was a trapper and hunter in the area and is said to have buried $400,000 in gold coins somewhere on his property near what is now Follensby Road in Franklin County NY. Gardiner Island is now private property and there is supposedly a place on the island called Kidd Valley that contains some mysterious symbols on the rocks there that might be a treasure map of sorts. On October 23, 1935, a whole team of killers led by Charles "Bug" Workman converged on the Palace Chop House in Newark, New Jersey, where Dutch had fled when Dewey had made him too much of a target in New York City. One day some hunters in the area found Clairieuxs home burned to the ground with the body of Julius Caesar lying next to it. 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. He should, at that moment, have turned around three times, as his dream directed, but he was so excited that he forgot to. Without any physical threat, flight becomes the only logical alternative and your brain screams RUN. It would not lie to you, would it? The amounts vary from $5-9 million, sums that would be worth ten times as much today. Somebody had accidentally opened it and had removed the treasure. The Indians were gone, and an earnest search was made for the money but in vain. if (window.addEventListener){ window.addEventListener("message", function(event) { if(event.data.length >= 22) { if( event.data.substr(0, 22) == "__MM-LOCATION.REDIRECT") location = event.data.substr(22); } }, false); } else if (window.attachEvent){ window.attachEvent("message", function(event) { if( event.data.length >= 22) { if ( event.data.substr(0, 22) == "__MM-LOCATION.REDIRECT") location = event.data.substr(22); } }, false); }. Marjorie Lansing Porter (1891-1973) dedicated her life to preserving the folk songs of the Adirondacks. He died in a fever and, while raving in delirium, spoke of a concealed chest. 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. 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! A fortune worth $1 million when it was hidden in 2010 is waiting to be picked up somewhere in the Rocky Mountains just a few miles from Santa Fe, New Mexico. A farmer named Belknap dreamed several times of a buried treasure at this point, and he was told, in his vision, that if he would dig there at midnight, he could make it his own. This ghost town was a former mining settlement in the heart of the Adirondacks during the nineteenth century. . For all this, the old tree bore, for many years, an evil reputation. As the great Terry Perkins has said, to bushwack through Five Ponds, one needs to have the right attitude. In the year 1716 the only inhabitants of the area were Native Americans and . So who knows Clairieuxs treasure might still be buried somewhere in the nature preserve. He buried $400,000 in gold and silver coins close by his cabin. For that reason, I prefer the term momentarily displaced as a replacement for the more traditional terminology. Attention Upstate New York treasure hunters: A stash of Nazi cash is waiting to be collected. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. Contributors include veteran local writers, historians, naturalists, and outdoor enthusiasts from around the Adirondack region. ", Rick James, SpongeBob, Rod Serling and 16 other iconic voices of Upstate New York. The other top level gangsters were not convinced. On or near the beaches of Dunkirk, New York. Certain promoters of these schemes have enjoyed salaries as officers in the stock companies organized for their furtherance, and they have seen the only tangible results from such enterprises. River pirate Patterson buried a large cache in 1813 on banks of Chippewa creek. The heart quickens in the chest, the echo of the frequent beats drowning out the surrounding natural sounds. (When you tripped and broke your ankle you also smashed your emergency beacon.) When the boughs creaked together on tempestuous nights, it was said that dark shapes might be seen writhing on the branches and capering about the sward below in hellish glee. The notorious Captain Kidd is said to have buried treasure on Gardiners Island in Block Island Sound. You are lost. Dan Crane writes regularly about bushwhacking and backcountry camping, including providing insights on equipment and his observations as a veteran backcountry explorer. On Crown Point, Lake Champlain, Vermont, is the ruin of a fort erected by Lord Amherst above the site of a French work thrown up in 1731 to guard a now-vanished capital of 1500 people. It occurred at the southern tip of Lake Champlain, near Whitehall, already the site of many historic lake-related treasures. Massing his plate, coin, and other movables into three barrels, he ordered his three slaves to bury them in pits that they had dug beneath his house. His father had abandoned the family, a fact he would be in denial about for the rest of his life. You are just confused. Good article Dan. In 1959, it slowly sunk beneath the surface as flood waters . Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations and volunteer search and rescue groups, Forest Rangers locate and extract lost, injured or distressed people from the Adirondack backcountry. They were also a collection point for refuse and debris. Although getting lost at least a couple times is probably inevitable during a hiking career, and potentially a good thing, there are steps that can be taken to minimize the number of incidents. Somewhere near Tupper Lake, you might find a lost treasure from long ago! To reach her broken ribs more easily, her freight was put on shore in charge of the collector of the port, but when it was desired to ship the cargo again, behold! Legend has it that they stashed and buried their riches near the Butlerbury mansion before they took off to Canada. Heirloom Seal of the Realm. 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. Those coins dated to the 1500s so they could have been part of Clairieuxs lost treasure. Some say that this is but the will-o-the-wisp: the soul of a bad fellow who is doomed to wander in desolate regions because, after dying, Peter would not allow him to enter heaven, and the devil would not let him go into the other place, lest he should make the little devils unmanageable; but he is allowed to carry a light in his wanderings. They are so intricate, and most would argue there is no comparable place to this beautiful forest preserve. He escaped through a hole in the roof, doubled on his pursuers, fired a pile of dead leaves and wood at the mouth, and suffocated the white men with the smoke. Even if you dont have a compass it is easy to tell what direction is what during the day. On the banks of the Cumberland River in Tennesseeis a height where a searcher for gold was seized by invisible defenders and hurled to the bottom of the cliff, receiving mortal injuries. So Shultz was worried he would be sent to prison on tax evasion charges the same fate as Al Capone. How is it possible to go from knowing where you are one moment to being totally disoriented the next? New York Lost Treasure Sites. Many Phoenician residents and business owners would find people with shovels and, in one case, a backhoe, sneaking around their property and leaving holes everywhere. The heart quickens in the chest, the echo of the frequent beats drowning out the surrounding natural sounds. Contrast that to bushwhacking when knowledge of direction, terrain, and time are constantly on your mind every step of the way. circa 990-995. A pleasant hike in the Adirondack backcountry suddenly turns into a disaster. * Defense Delay Blocked. The hermit Clairieux supposedly buried several chests of treasure on Grand Island. Though the witch had promised them safety, nothing appeared to ward off the fantastic shapes that began to crowd about them. The Lost Warren silver mine is located somewhere in the Adirondack mountains. In the southern part of Chester County, Pennsylvania, is money, too, but just where nobody knows. (LogOut/ Not only is it large in acreage, mostly trail-less, with numerous glacial features, a lot of water, beaver meadows, old flows, and old growth, it has what Colvin described as the forest on the floor, the decades of dead and down trees and the new plant life that emerges from that environment. The spirit of the defrauded and murdered captain had claimed him, the medium explained. By using this site you consent to the use of these cookies by various third-party partners such as Google and other advertisers. She had costly freight aboard, and on the morning after she went ashore, crew and freight had vanished. The cabin was at the north end of Follensby Pond just where the Branch enters into the lake. Hillig reported the hijacking to the government, but never mentioned the money. To find the coin, Hillig is said to have left 25 clues behind to help locate it. 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. Here were the front page headlines in the New York Times, April 16, 1935: * New York City gangster Dutch Schultz He was about to tell where it was when the death rattle choked his words. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents in the Adirondacks. My own grandfather-in-law owned a service station during the Depression. 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. circa 960. This applies whether the mineral is discovered on public land or even if it is found on private property in your own back yard. Dutch was later shot down in the Palace Chophouse in Newark, New Jersey in 1935. In the end, it turned out I journeyed out onto a peninsula, and after keeping my head and returning to the downed tree, I found my way back along the old trail and I safely returned home no worse for the situation. 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. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The subway's life ran from 1927 to June 30, 1956. 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. In 1992, the Sullivan County Democrat wrote a series of articles about the treasure, creating a brief scavenger hunt craze. 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. For 30 years, this task was carried on, both father and son dying without gaining any practical result other than discovering an ancient scabbard in a rift. In 1960 when bulldozing the area a man found $89,000 worth of coins which presumably are part of that treasure. Late in life, the sole survivor of the company went to Camels Hump and tried to recall where the treasure had been hidden, but his search was in vain. 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. This does not mean roll around in leaf litter and have a good laugh, although that might help. It was also unclear if it was in cash, jewels, or even gold pieces. The mountain does not have an official hiking trail and most hike to its summit follow a herd path off the trail to Flowed . Avoid areas that appear very light colored, sandy, or muddy, as these places are less likely to produce. With Canada still making liquor legally and New York City being full of people who wanted it, the roads of the Adirondacks became favorites of smugglers. Many of these old trails randomly twist and turn and branch and then dissolve into nothingness. In 1760 a French Commander is said to have surrendered the Fort there to the British but before doing so he buried a treasure there worth between $10,000 to $100,000 on the Island. Spaniards worked the mines in the Ozark Hills of Missouri in the late 17th century. But that is what happened in Malone in the spring and summer of 1935. After much hesitancy, Mike set forth with his ghostly guide, for he would have risked his soul for money, but on arriving at his destination, he was startled to find himself alone. It was so bad that Schultz and his men would have to strongarm speakeasy owners to purchase his horrible tasting brews. Later, I self-taught myself the skill and the art in my favored wilderness areas, deep in the Five Ponds and the Pepperbox. Even gangsters of the prohibition have buried treasures in this great state. PAUL BUCKOWSKI/HEARST Show More Show Less 8 of . Digging Deeper: Lost Treasures of Massachusetts. The law states that any gold discovered may not be kept. Win a fun getaway! They ended up losing their farm in 1866 because of tax evasion. Being lost in the backcountry usually means not knowing ones whereabouts. While Dutch Schultz was known as a gangster who actually scared other gangsters, the heinous crime he was being tried for in this case was tax evasion. Imagine, 1938: Near the end of The Great Depression in the Adirondack High Peaks. Caverns have frequently been used as hiding places for things of more or less value generally less. Fishers Island is just north of Gardiners Island. Imperial Seal of China created by Emperor Qin Shi Huang, lost after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in the 10th century. Then he escaped to Nova Scotia, though he might as well have stayed at home, for the British possessed themselves of Long Island, and his house became a resort for red-coats and loyalists. If you are ever in New York City you might want to check out the Museum of the City of New York. When things go bad, they go bad all at once. He had put it in a crock and buried it, and, on his deathbed, where he made his statement, he asked that it might be exhumed and spent for some good purpose. Finally, the roll portion. Lesser-known pirate Charles Gibbs is said to have buried a large treasure near Southhampton Beach on Long Island. amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; The geology of New York State is not what you would expect for producing native gold, and it is believed that there are few if any noteworthy hard rock gold deposits within New York. He died along with the exact whereabouts of the buried treasure. Digging Deeper: Lost Treasures of New Jersey. Further stories detailed how Dutch Schultz gave toys to sick kids, new jerseys for the town's semi-pro baseball team, money to the local churches, and dinners for everyone else in town. Change). Towns in New Mexico that have lain in ruins since 1670, when the Apache butchered their people towns that were well built and were lorded by solid old churches and monasteries erected by the Spanish missionaries these towns have often been dug over, and the ruinous state of Abo, Curari, and Tabira is due, in part, to their foolish tunneling and blasting. After continuing in this fashion until reaching a large downed tree, I found myself not sure of the way forward or how to get back whence I came. 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. Many treasure hunters have been searching for that treasure for years to no avail. Just dont take this to mean that gold cant be found. After taking out the remainder of the stone, they came on several human skeletons. Gold may be in the stream, but it will either by hidden beneath significant overburden that will require a lot of work to move, or it will be unable to settle down and be captured, thus moving it further downstream. It was the famous downfall of Al Capone, after all. The 71-year-old was a champion storyteller of the Native Americans who thrived in the Adirondack lowlands, the soldiers who crossed the dangerous landscape in 18th-century battles and the everyday Adirondackersthe miners, foresters and farmerswho settled in the park. amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "raregold-20"; Throughout the 40s and 50s, Porter traveled through N. The Lost Treasure of the Dutch-man On October 23, 1935, a whole team of killers led by Charles "Bug" Workman converged on the Palace Chop House in Newark, New Jersey, where Dutch had fled when Dewey had made him too much of a target in New York City. Fine gold will get caught down in the cracks and accumulate, and when you are prospecting for glacial gold, you definitely want to find some accumulations to make it worth your while. He trusted an assistant to publish the story of the money after his death, which came in 1954. During the Revolutionary War, many treasures were lost and buried in the ground of New York. Although there is no documentation that can back up this lost treasure story the second version could be possible because there are many swamps in the area of Rome, NY. Nothing daunted; he set down his lantern and began to dig. Outlaw loot is buried at or near Stone Arabia at a place called Klocks Field. While throwing out these fragments, one of the party fell dead. Many years ago, in my earlier years as a trail hiker, I once found myself lost while hiking back from the Five Ponds after taking an old side trail near the Oswegatchie River. So great was the fright caused by this accident that the search was again abandoned until March 1890, when another party resumed the digging. On the St. Lawrence river between Louisville and Roseveltown lies a small island is known as Tiny Treasure Island. Gold Panning in places where bedrock is exposed and easier to get to is always a good idea, particularly in the cracks and around the broken slabs where the stream water is being directed much like a natural sluice. Numerous caches from robberies are thought to be located Panama Rocks. 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. A treacherous guide who had hoped to take Coronado into the waterless plain and lose him but who first lost his own head had told him a tale of the Quivira, a tribe that had much gold. In Indian Gap, near Wernersville, Pennsylvania, the Doane band of Tories and terrorists hid a chest of gold, the proceeds of many robberies. There are numerous accounts of pirates frequenting the Islands of New York state. Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. Malone is the county seat of Franklin County, New York. The Loomis gang was a family of outlaws in the mid-1800s. New London got a bad name from this robbery, and the governor, though besought by the assembly to make good the shortage, failed to do so, and lost his place at the next election. This setback infuriated New York Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, with implications no one could foresee at the time. And yet, he always called himself a "salesman." She could see, however, that the dollars were packed edgewise. This will definitely help with the thinking above, and it gives you a chance to do something relaxing while thinking. This websites also uses 'cookies' to give you the most relevant experience while browsing. Close by, other coins of a later date were found. 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