Now, two years later, in his book, "True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake," he has given new life to a legend about hidden silver that developed alongside Trammel's Trace. A formal statement is due around noon in Moscow on Saturday when the first pictures of the gold will be revealed to the world's . 1. Texas is full of buried bootyor, to be a bit more accurate, full of stories about buried booty that no one has been able to find. though. 0000044783 00000 n
<> At times the story stayed in circulation due to the efforts of Harry E. Rieseberg, a man who was the self-proclaimed '"worlds greatest underwater treasure hunter.. According to a story by Mary Roger of the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the silver was indeed robbed from a galleon by Laffite and his mean in the early 19th century. Patricia Sharpe writes a regular restaurant column, Pats Pick, for Texas Monthly. Although the lake was searched in the 50s and 60s, nothing was found at that time. They did their research and, with dredging equipment and electronics gear, made multiple trips to Hendricks Lake but had no success. | MLS# A11347652 1843 S Federal Hwy , Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33316 Both were the surnames of early settlers in the vicinity. 0000004529 00000 n
<<83DDF97377B4B2110A0000A4D0C2FC7F>]/Prev 639425>> They also had a raft built from which large pipes were sunk into the lake bottom, and used a metal detector to search the sediment. Boise County - Near the Nevada state line at Rye Flats, a shipment of newly-minted gold coins . Gary Pinkerton, True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake, East Texas Historical Journal 47 (2009). Long-lost Ironton ship is found in Lake Huron after eluding hunters for His website is www.trammelstrace.com. Handbook of Texas Online, Barnie Waldrop, a Carthage television repairman, had used his own electronics to search the lake for years. Lets be honest, everybody loves a good treasure story. He had heard about the Trace from his dad as a portion of it runs through family land. Stella Wieser of the Panola Watchman. The lake is located in the extreme northeastern part of the county along the boundary between Rusk and Panola. The area served as a naval base during the war, and the publication notes that when the Allied forces were approaching, the Nazi's began sinking treasures in metal boxes in the lake . When we were looking through the story and seeing some of the characters that got interested in it, seeing some of the nations most prominent treasure hunters getting interested in the story, the story being picked up by some of the largest magazines and news outlets across the country in the 50s and 60s, seeing involvement from one of the worlds most famous psychicsits an incredible story, Roper noted. A TV repairman. HOUSTON It's the treasure hunt of a lifetime, and now it's landed them on national TV. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents([email protected])/Rect[183.5112 72.3516 299.2412 82.8984]/StructParent 10/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> 0000017011 00000 n
Texas oilmen who later drilled an oil well based on scripture. Hobe Sound. Access to the lake that for 150 years had been accessible for picnics and fishing was closed off to all but a few private landowners at the time. It featured Pirate Treasures. The tale basically states Galveston-based pirate Jean Laffite, in the year 1816, plundered a Spanish ship named the Santa Rosa. Access to those treasure seekers was largely through land owned by a former Panola County sheriff, Corbett Akins, and one of his deputies, L.E. But they got nothing. An estimated $340 million., And as I write, the treasure hunters are out there, hunting, hunting, and hunting. The dig, which employed 39 Zuni workmen, was conducted from 1917 through 1921 and in 1923, and uncovered approximately 25,000 artifacts as well as human remains. CNN As soon as Forrest Fenn announced that his treasure was found earlier this month, rumors swirled about whether it had really been found or if the treasure hunt had been a hoax all. Adams was a Rusk County backwoodsman who wears an old slouch felt hat, bib overalls, and a denim jacket, buttoned at the throat even in hot weather, and a favorite character of columnist Frank X. Tolbert for many of his Tolberts Texas articles over the years. Laffite approached them and was granted a commission and given command over a 43-ton schooner named General Santander. I spent the majority of the summer of 2020 organizing expeditions into the lake, through sonar we had come up with quite a few hits of things that were very interesting, Roper said. e d u / e t h j / v o l 4 7 / i s s 2 / 1 0)/Rect[128.1963 131.7406 353.4453 143.4594]/StructParent 9/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> He built a new kind of sewing machine, and in 1851 he started I.M. The Irish Crown Jewels, stolen from Dublin Castle over a century ago, are still out there for treasure-seekers to find today. 150 0 obj One particularly famous legend is that of Jean Lafittes treasure. Numerous springs within and around the lake keep it filled. It is this tale that Christian wants to follow up on. 6. endobj 3. And the story was basically, you wanna be the guy selling the metal detectors, you dont want to be the guy out there looking for (stuff) that doesnt exist. For more information about this incredible project and to see a short film trailer, go to their website at www.sunkensilver.com. No matter the evidence, they knew there were more ships filled with riches.. Tales of pirate booty and Mexican gold have captivated minds for generations, and it all could be closer than you might think. Hendrick's Lake treasure is focus of Houston historian's upcoming book We met with Gary and it was very strange because he was working on this book at the same time we were working on this film and it had been decades since anyone had ever shown any interest in Hendricks Lake.. Sight was acquired & transformed back in 2018 by Anthony Bruno, founder of Anthony's Runway 84 & Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza along wit Little is known about his origins, but he was probably born either in Basque-France or in the French colony Saint-Domingue. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents()/Rect[72.0 594.2333 124.3037 607.124]/StructParent 1/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> Aug. 6, 2015 9:51 AM PT. click photo for more. Barnie was a TV repair man, and he had built this underwater metal detector, like the size of a washing machine. And if so is the treasure still there? I looked into it a little bit in high school and at UT, just on and off. Six wagon loads of silver carried north along Trammel's Trace. Two oilmen from Texas actually brought a giant crane to the lake after getting some interesting readings from the bottom of Hendricks Lake. THE LEGEND A brig named Santa Rosa plundered in Matagorda Bay in 1816. ingots were in transport, but the Spanish had set a trap. Born to an American mother and English father in Knoxville, Tennessee, Hendricks was raised in Portland, Oregon, and Twin Falls, Idaho, where she became active in local theater. Whether the treasure is truly out there or not remains to be proven. Thats the one thing we all agree on about Sunken Silver, is that legend is a very powerful thing.. The treasure, placed in a. Charles F. Grice, Interview by Gary Pinkerton, February 2019. Photo: WhisperToMe, Public domain. The same thing is true for the Paradise Cove Lodge down California 178. Jensen Beach. In an interview . Fire Ants Have Unleashed Chaos in Texas for Decades. including dialogue . Gary L . Calvin Wilcher is in charge of the scans..he is on watch for something not of Mother nature. 147 0 obj He sent soldiers to look for it, but they found nothing. According to the legend, the Cherokee were fleeing north after the Battle of Neches when Roper said their path crossed Little Cypress Creek on the property of a man named OHendrick. Over the years, Hendrick's Lake near Tatum has been a place where many people have visited in search of a legendary treasure that was supposedly left at the site by Pirate Jean LaFitte. click photo for more. The Lost San Saba Silver Mine This lost mine, with its rich vein of silver, has been what one treasure hunter writer has called the Holy Grail of Texas treasure seekers. In 1756 a Mexican official traveling through Texas learned from Indians of an exposed strain of pure silver that ran through a certain hill in Central Texas. In Gretna in 1960, across the river from New Orleans, a large number of gold coins were found in an area frequented by Lafitte and his men .According to another story, Laffite buried a large cache on an unnamed island in Lake Borgne. "I do not know the person who found it, but the poem in my book led him to the precise spot," Fenn writes. 0000001390 00000 n
10 Lost Treasures in America Waiting to be Found - History Collection 146 0 obj The crescent-shaped lake is less than a mile long, thirty to fifty yards wide, and twelve to forty feet deep. endobj Trammel's Trace-The First Road to Texas from the North is a 2016 book by Gary L. Pinkerton. 149 0 obj George Heye's Legacy: An Unparalleled Collection . endobj Pinkerton spent time in Carthage recently talking to those with accounts of some of the treasure hunters, and he hopes to connect with more people who have Hendricks Lake stories to tell. ]9xd@%
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A Book by Gary L. Pinkerton, author of "Trammel's Trace". The open-endedness and lack of conclusion is what attracts Roper to the story today. 158 0 obj Stella Wieser was a reporter at the Panola Watchman from June 2018 to April 2022. On the trail of East Texas' buried treasure - NewsBreak The brothers meet with a Christian Roper who is actively hunting for the lost treasure of the pirate, Jean Lafitte. His main focus is on Jean Lafittes treasure, Beyond Oak Island Summary of Episode 1: Pirate Treasures and the Search It lies along the historic route of Trammels Trace, only one and one-quarter miles south of the location of Ramsdales Crossing/Ferry (Rocky Ford) on the Sabine River. A dirt contractor. Fort Pierce. Texas, I learned, is full of buried treasureor, to be a bit more accurate, full of stories about buried treasures that no one has been able to find. there were treasure legends, and the most common story is that Lafitte stranded a ship, a Spanish ship with gold, in Matagorda Bay in Corpus and was taking it to St. Louis on some wagon trains over roads that dont exist in 1816. Laffite spent the rest of his life attacking merchant ships around Central American ports; sometimes as a pirate and sometimes as a privateer. It was one of the first times I met with Brackston after we graduated university last summer, Roper recalled. How to Go Treasure Hunting in a Drained Lake or Pond There was another story that said No it wasnt Lafitte, it was Santa Anna, and he didnt want the gold to be lost in San Jacinto, so he sent it on the wagon train. The guy from Iowa who did the treasure hunting had researchers in Spain, in the archives. This book is the story of those people. 15 Lost Treasures People Actually Found | TheRichest This page is for discussion about that early history,. 0000010052 00000 n
Since 2014, Rick and Marty Lagina have produced "The Curse of Oak Island" for The HISTORY Channel. 2. endobj The legend says that in 1816, Laffite and his fellow pirates plundered six wagon loads worth of silver from the Spanish. Not all listings found on this site are necessarily listed through Best of Luxury Realty, Corp. A nearby lake fed by the Sabine River also caught their attention, since the silver might have been transported there by the current. Legend holds that the Pirate Jean LaFitte, or in some other versions Santa Anna, left treasure at Hendricks Lake near Tatum. An electrical engineer and MIT grad who before coming to Hendricks Lake to look for treasure had found the Union navys ironclad Tecumseh in Mobile Bay. He gave the loot to smugglers who were attempting to transport six wagonloads of silver ingots to St. Louis where the treasure would presumably be minted into coins. I got copies of pages in Spanish that say Yeah there was the Santa Rosa, the proposed name of the ship, there was a Santa Rosa, (but) it didnt sink. It carried cane liquor and salt and sugar from Cuba to Cadiz. TATUM A trio of Jacksonville natives wants to turn two-century-old piracy legend into a full-length feature documentary film and theyre seeking funding help to do it. The hidden fortunes of the Doan Boys Gang, said to be $2 million at least. What I like most about the lake is that, it just contains this feel when you go out there and you see the Spanish moss hanging on the trees, you feel like youve gone back in time, Roper said. At the age of 25, Jean Laffite was living in New Orleans, operating a warehouse essential to dispersing the goods smuggled by his brother Pierre. In 1965, led a team of Iowans in some aborted, but ambitious, attempts at the treasure. They say this inspired them to reach out to other treasure hunters and hear their stories. Peter Walker Adams lived in one of the houses on the hill near the lake and figured prominently in many of the newspaper stories. Most of the cobs or old Spanish finds I've seen on the forum are either from Florida or the Upper East Cost. We report on vital issues from politics to education and are the indispensable authority on the Texas scene, covering everything from music to cultural events with insightful recommendations. I determined that there were maybe five that might have contained some sort of treasure.