156 0 obj The hidden fortunes of the Doan Boys Gang, said to be $2 million at least. In 1965, led a team of Iowans in some aborted, but ambitious, attempts at the treasure. The July 17, 1958 edition of the Panola Watchman includes this update on a search for Jean LaFittes treasure at Hendricks Lake near Tatum. The film will explore the history of various parts of the tale, how they came to be woven in to a single fable and will reveal what was discovered during the months of research put into the project, including a new theory and information indicating the account of lost silver in an East Texas lake is actually a combination of stories. He knows more than a thing or two about the present . Both American coasts abound with tales of buried pirate treasure. A Book by Gary L. Pinkerton, author of "Trammel's Trace". endobj Later, someone else who got high metal readings tried to dynamite the bottom of the lake. Omoa was the site of the largest Spanish fort in Central America, a fort constructed to safeguard the Spanish silver shipments from the mines of Tegucigalpa in Honduras. The stories of treasure have been around for a long time, Pinkerton said. Its just a great story and what intrigued me was the people engaged in that all over those 100 years.. We organized some strategic searches via dives doing grid patterns and things of that sort to try to get those up.. 0000001730 00000 n The story revolves around oil fields in Texas, USA. There was one spot that we initially found, I think it was June of 2020, which gave us a sonar reading that was pretty much an exact match to a wooden wagon that had submerged with some sort of weight, Roper said. Now, more modern equipment was available, and one man used a metal detector and managed to get some interesting readings from the bottom of the lake. Fort Pierce. In an interview . a must to have. Over the years, Hendricks 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. He found what he was looking for in the Spanish colony of Texas. endobj Spring is a census-designated place within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States, part of the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area. After sitting undisturbed for more than 10 years, a treasure chest holding gold nuggets and precious gems has been found in the Rocky Mountains. Gary Pinkerton, True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake, East Texas Historical Journal 47 (2009). During the investigation, Roper found Gary Pinkertons book, We met with Gary in January and we had no clue about his book coming out, we just knew that he was kind of the expert on this trace, this route that had been taken in the story by this group of smugglers carrying all the silver, Roper said. When one of the recent landowners near the lake sold their property to the mining company, they inserted a treasure clause that reserves the rights to one-half of any treasure trove found on the Property by Purchaser. There will always be true believers in the treasure legend of Hendricks Lake. And then again, the 50s and 60s, there were a bunch of these treasure magazines about metal detectors. Id met his daughter, who when she was 12, they let her push the plunger on the dynamite to blow up the bottom of the lake.. But to this day, treasure hunters are unswayed. If information about one of the last searchers had been documented and publicized it would likely have discouraged further similar attempts in the future. Roper is the latest in a long line of people to search for treasure in Hendricks Lake, and hes using the latest technology and techniques to do it. He also noted there were a handful of other treasure legends that were nearly the same but with a different location or body of water and no specific piece of evidence regarding the Hendricks Lake silver on which he can hang his hat., When asked what he hopes Sunken Silver will accomplish, he answered just to tell the story.. Hobe Sound. Christian B. Roper, Ryan Travis, and Brackston McKnight, all Jacksonville natives, are working toward a documentary film about Hendricks Lake called Sunken Silver. The duo are currently working to make a documentary about the local legend of sunken silver ingots in the lake near Tatum. The Secret: Location of the Treasure in Lake Park, Milwaukee Mark Heffron 35 subscribers Subscribe 5.6K views 2 years ago In this video I reveal the location of the treasure in Lake Park,. Beyond Oak Island Episode 2 Summary: Wild West Gold and the Search at Robbers Roost Canyon for Butch Cassidys Lost Treasure, All can be found to have a questing theme within them, Third Annual Masquerade Tribute of Hunts for Charity, The Second Annual Masquerade Tribute Wrap Up, Privacy Policy, Disclaimer and Affiliate Disclosure. Born in Longview in East Texas and living in Houston, Gary has published works of history born of his curiosity about what happened long ago in East Texas that played a role in the history of the Republic and of the State of Texas. But people buy into it, and thats the part thats interesting to me.. Legend has it that Basss part of the money is in Cove Hollow, about thirty miles from Denton. MW Questions: Are Keywords for the Null Cipher Used in The Great US Treasure Hunt? endobj Its slated to be released in May on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Tubi. Texas Lege Watch: A House Republican Fights for Chicken Freedom, Texas Monthly Recognized by ASME in the 2023 National Magazine Awards. Christian There was an error processing your request. So read this, get up, and go after your pot of gold. A pharmacist. Snavely of Taylor, who had hunted treasure for 60 years, found a ruby arrowhead weighing 15 karats, along with many other gemstones. 0000003134 00000 n Hits are sounded off. 0000003470 00000 n 0000003684 00000 n 0000000016 00000 n The story was reporting the fact that Tatum beat a man to death who essentially made fun of that effort, Pinkerton said. For Pinkerton, the treasure of Hendricks Lake is its history and the people who have believed in the legend over the years. The lake is located in the extreme northeastern part of the county along the boundary between Rusk and Panola. So nothing lines up; its just factually, there was no road that would carry wagons at that time. The various people that searched for the Hendricks Lake treasure hooked him. It was one of the first times I met with Brackston after we graduated university last summer, Roper recalled. Pinkerton also maintains facebook pages Trammels Trace and Hendricks Lake Treasure-True Believers. 2018 Sunken Silver. He had heard about the Trace from his dad as a portion of it runs through family land. Jensen Beach. The treasure, placed in a. Only recently did I learn of a parallel effort to tell the story of the Hendricks Lake treasure legend via film. They have documented their search for reported treasure over eight seasons. 0000000756 00000 n Forrest Fenn, a New Mexican art dealer, revealed on Sunday that his famed treasure was found, according to a post on his website that he confirmed to NBC News. Little Cypress Creek, north of Gilmer, is the site where legend says a cache of Mexican coinage was dumped, according to A Brief History of Upshur County a history book published in 1946. xVy~}F0N13`&p"I9:tZ"-"}]{~~x/ c HfE4sowa-n_?B. Low 47F. Hendricks Lake, once a commonly-frequented lake both for recreation and treasure hunting, is no longer accessible to the public. In 1884, the guy Tatum is named after thought he would drain the lake, Pinkerton said. Boise County - Close to 3,000,000 troy ounces of gold have been removed from the gravels of the Bose Basin and according to treasure hunters, there is plenty more to be found. 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 . 157 0 obj Stories like this, its what created a filmmaker in myself, its what creates archeologists, its what creates people that come up with plans to conquer whatever they want to solve in life, its just a special place.. I once made a scientific study of all the known shipwrecks, from ancient to modern, that occurred off the Texas coast. Ocean Breeze. endobj His interest is in the people who have acted on their belief in the legend. They know it. Error! 155 0 obj She was then forgotten for nearly 300 years. Every penny counts! s f a s u . Jupiter Island. Extremely competent in market analysis and comparative sales, Angie has worked in many aspects of the real estate industry and uses this experience and foresight to be proactive and address all . 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. %%EOF Xi-vrcjVJO%X *hve~os)&pZl0nuUH;M%\,iB!N7;B`h Y2?SXx#l};(5-Sj\Ji6Y|f>>`}j8 C=H: =.p0=*y pGOF30.#yZeY92Hq{IjFhaftP[Ch[&P"(D3CSP+ )Q- $NNBeX"Ld_kUB'`Y%e8re%R 0aHd$0=~^nbY:pK/DQxE8"Sh5Y=9'wXJ9'.m*?%YTAcM>W*N7852@ZyV|>}c(&fZXBtzq]uF4A1*i I titled it True Believers because Im way more interested in the people who believe this stuff than the possibility that there might actually be something, Pinkerton said. He frequently returned to Galveston or the barrier islands near New Orleans to unload booty or take on supplies procured by Pierre. See the BLOG here for more details. Pinkerton came across the Hendricks Lake legend while doing research for his book, Trammals Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North. Both of them had consulted with Harry Rieseberg, the self-described worlds greatest underwater treasure hunter who had written articles about the legend in treasure magazines of the time. Charles Fitzhugh Grice had the technology needed to find Spanish silver if the treasure was there. In 1925, W.E. But if you dont like that version of the legend there are others. The ships turned out to be heavily armed privateers and they mounted a frontal counterattack that included heavy fire. Despite intense efforts at dredging, detecting, diving, and dynamiting for Hendricks Lake treasure, the only thing that was reportedly found in the lake was the rim of an old wagon wheel. . A TV repairman. 0000003902 00000 n The location was later widely believed to be Hendricks Lake, an oxbow lake formation on the south side of the Sabine River. One particularly famous legend is that of Jean Lafitte's treasure. %PDF-1.7 % 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. There will be people still in town who will remember Barnie Waldrop, Pinkerton said. Numerous springs within and around the lake keep it filled. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(cdsscholarworks@sfasu.edu)/Rect[183.5112 72.3516 299.2412 82.8984]/StructParent 10/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> . Laffite spent the rest of his life attacking merchant ships around Central American ports; sometimes as a pirate and sometimes as a privateer. A team of treasure hunters could be on the verge of unearthing the "world's largest treasure hoard," said to be worth over $20 billion. Gary L. Pinkerton, A famous actress said, Legend remains victorious in spite of history. For this one to last over 150 years, the grains of truth have firmly resisted erosion by the progress of historical research and inspection. And an MIT-trained electrical engineer who held a patent for underwater metal detection. Larry Holzwarth - May 12, 2018. He is portrayed by Armando Riesco. He also might have(might have, I remind you)come across a wooden chest containing what was then $80,000 in jewelry and coins. The same thing is true for the Paradise Cove Lodge down California 178. Our new Privacy Policy will go into effect on January 1st, 2023. Back in the 1580s, Spanish conquistadors and priests often passed beneath the peaks of the Franklins on their way to New Mexico to colonize the Indian villages. . There are two legends in particular that seem to have found purchase in the minds of East Texas treasure hunters. Gary L. Pinkerton, Trammels Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016). for the most familiar version of the legend. Connecting the legend to peoples minds now so it doesnt die out, I think is important, Pinkerton asserted. endstream All Rights Reserved. Boise County - Near the Nevada state line at Rye Flats, a shipment of newly-minted gold coins . A nearby lake fed by the Sabine River also caught their attention, since the silver might have been transported there by the current. An occasional newspaper article kept the story alive and throughout the 1960s treasure hunters found their way to Hendrick's Lake, but none matched the expeditions launched by the SoRelle . Low 47F. Click here to start your Free Trial (no credit card required), by Michelle Dillon michelle@thecherokeean.com. The earliest mention of the treasure legend of Hendricks Lake that Pinkerton could find was in 1884. When he got on board is when things started getting fairly serious.. and the story of the Hendricks Lake treasure is no different. Christian Roper and Brackston McKnight, film makers. In an interview with KETK, Pinkerton discussed the treasure, or lack thereof, at Hendricks Lake. Did the infamous privateer Jean Laffite steal a $2 million fortune in silver from a Spanish galleon and bury it in the Sabine River near the East Texas town Sabine? TYLER, Texas (KETK) Legends of buried treasure have fascinated people around the world since time immemorial. Its hard to find any newspaper before that, but thats the first and oldest mention that I found of it, he said. 158 0 obj Markers are dropped, and divers are sent down. Mainly clear. Paul Uncle Fox Tatum, son of the founder of Tatum, Texas, carried out the first documented attempt to recover the treasure in 1884. e d u / e t h j)/Rect[230.8867 249.8227 390.0566 261.5414]/StructParent 5/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> For more information on Sunken Silver, visit www.sunkensilver.com. Clarksville Standard, August 29, 1884. There were treasure legends like that all over Texas, he said. endobj In a location on the lake, matching the tale, with a sloped 0000004315 00000 n Another legend has it that in 1595, Juan de Oate hid five silver bars, 4,336 gold ingots, nine burro loads of jewels, and four priceless Aztec codices (books or manuscripts) in the mine. East Texas Gold From Mexico In 1839 Mirabeau B. Lamar, the newly inaugurated successor to Sam Houston as President of Texas, sent the Texas Army out to get rid of the Cherokees. And if so is the treasure still there? The silver was never recovered. Pickering, a veteran diver, has made it his mission to recover all things odd and ordinary lurking in the lake to keep Georgia families safe. Ho-hum, right? <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(Tell us)/Rect[72.0 211.9047 103.6572 224.7953]/StructParent 7/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> endobj 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>> 146 23 A.C. SoRelle, Jr., and his brother, Henry, were oilmen who brought detection equipment, draglines, and other heavy machinery to dig into the gumbo mud on the bottom of the lake. In the early 1800s, Stephen F. Austin, on his first trip to Texas, also heard about a rich silver mine on the San Saba River and a gold mine on the Llano. Many came to the lake to drain, dredge, dig, dynamite and scan its murky depths. It was a cloudy evening with low visibility, and Laffite attempted to capture what appeared to be two Spanish merchant vessels. Singer & Co., which was renamed the Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865. TREASURE HUNTER CLAIMS FBI IS COVERING UP DISCOVERY OF CIVIL WAR-ERA GOLD WORTH MILLIONS "The two vessels separated after the impact, both fatally damaged. Angie Hendricks has been a dedicated RE/MAX Realtor for more than a decade, who offers attention to detail in every real estate transaction she handles. Hendricks Lake The divers do feel some round objects, and a piece is Royal discovery made after 99-year-old code is broken by Siberian mathematics genius. There are two legends in particular that seem to have found purchase in the minds of East Texas treasure hunters. THE LEGEND A brig named Santa Rosa plundered in Matagorda Bay in 1816. There are people who spend their whole lives and considerable sums of money searching for sunken treasure ships, lost mines, and hidden loot. We need your support because we are a non-profit organization that relies upon contributions from our community in order to record and preserve the history of our state. An estimated $340 million., And as I write, the treasure hunters are out there, hunting, hunting, and hunting. Although hes fascinated by the legend and the excitement it created, Pinkerton doesnt believe its even a little bit true. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(www.easttexashistorical.org)/Rect[308.5376 282.2367 447.0903 295.1273]/StructParent 4/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> <>/Metadata 144 0 R/Outlines 97 0 R/Pages 141 0 R/StructTreeRoot 102 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> No matter what, I come to believe throughout professional research or diving, I will always associate it with Jean Lafitte, with treasure, with piracy because its meant so much to the community, 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. Stella Wieser was a reporter at the Panola Watchman from June 2018 to April 2022. 160 0 obj Believed the treasure was in Martin Creek after meeting old Mexicans with a map when he was just a boy. He sent soldiers to look for it, but they found nothing. Filmmaker Brackston McKnight uses a metal detector on his property, searching for lost treasure. A semi-weekly newsletter with all of The Panola Watchman's sports coverage. He built a new kind of sewing machine, and in 1851 he started I.M. Hendricks Lake, Roper believes that the Little Cypress Creek story and the Hendricks Lake story may have a common heritage. The first episode premiered on Tuesday November 17 at 10PM EST on the History Channel. If pirate plunder and sunken silver hidden in a lake seem like the elements of folklore, they are. 0000002304 00000 n they might find something, a storm rolls in. The search is called off for the time being. 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. The location was later widely believed to be Hendricks Lake, an oxbow lake formation on the south side of the Sabine River. . TV repairman in Carthage who kept up his efforts for years and was the local expert. But they got nothing. Do@aj^HmFd*`G1 by the Rieseberg article had gone home with no treasure to On Monday, June 16th, 1958 Barney . There was a problem saving your notification. endobj The Lost Padre Mine Somewhere in the Franklin Mountains overlooking the Rio Grande River in El Paso County is the Lost Padre Mine. It certainly had promise since it was a round piece of wood, like the legend of the wagon sunk in the lake. According to legend, Singer hid the money he found in a large sand dune that he called Money Hill. But as fate would have it, he and his family had to abandon their Texas home during the Civil War because they were considered Union sympathizers. xref Hendricks Lake is an oxbow lake one and one-half miles south of the Sabine River and about four miles northeast of Tatum in Rusk County, Texas (32.371864N, 94.493190W). Please support the Cherokeean Herald by subscribing today. Stella Wieser of the Panola Watchman. Six wagon loads of silver carried north along Trammels Trace. Mainly clear. Somebody made fun of him; he clubbed the guy to death. The Sam Bass Loot In perhaps his greatest venture, Texass legendary stagecoach and bank robber Sam Bass traveled to Big Springs, Nebraska, with his sidekick Joel Collins and held up the Union Pacific Railroad. Captain Blackbeard's Lost Silver, said to be $1.5 million worth of silver bars. Some tough local lawmen. On an 1863 map of the area, it was named Flanagan Lake but since the 1880s has been known by its present name. Blackbeard and the mysterious unsolved code of Olivier Levassuer, or The Buzzard, are mentioned. When they returned after the war, Singer could no longer find Money Hill because the sands had shifted and erased all the landmarks that he once knew. Trammel's Trace-The First Road to Texas from the North is a 2016 book by Gary L. Pinkerton. 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. Soldiers approach, wagons sunk in Hendricks Lake, an oxbow lake just south of the Sabine River in northeastern Rusk County. <>stream Hendricks is an oxbow lake near where Rusk, Harrison, and Panola coun ties meet a few miles north ofTatum,Texas. Before I started to work on the story running in the July 2009 issue (Sleeping Booty) about California musician Nathan Smiths quixotic attempt to find a lost Spanish treasure ship near the town of Refugio, north of Corpus Christi, I assumed that there was no buried treasure at all in Texas. Christian B. Roper on a scouting trip for his film . He initially doesn't release any details on the finder or location. The idea of finding a lost treasure has universal appeal. A light came on when the probe hit metal. 168 0 obj Calvin Wilcher is in charge of the scans..he is on watch for something not of Mother nature. Many believe the body of water concealing the silver to be Hendricks Lake near Tatum, although other places have also been examined. There are many stories about the famous pirate Gene Lafitte, but one of them places his lost treasure at the bottom of a lake right here in East Texas. They lowered another contraption through the pipe to the lake floor. His body was buried at sea in the Gulf of Honduras. Hendricks Lake was the sight of many treasure hunts over the course of the 20th century. The tale basically states Galveston-based pirate Jean Laffite, in the year 1816, plundered a Spanish ship named the Santa Rosa. The enduring story of Hendricks Lake is a treasure legend that has been around for more than 150 years. Just about every book written about Texas in that era mentioned it. We'll send you a couple of emails per month, filled with fascinating history facts that you can share with your friends. swieser@panolawatchman.com, Stolen treasure, hidden mystery: Tatum-area lake lore focus of movie project. The lake is located in the extreme northeastern part of the county along the boundary between Rusk and Panola. In the 1950s, the Sabine River and the nearby lake (Hendricks Lake) experienced a new onslaught of treasure seekers when the story of Laffites silver was published by the True West magazine. endobj <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(Provide feedback)/Rect[392.1938 211.9047 476.7295 224.7953]/StructParent 8/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> Off the shores of Nova Scotia is Oak Island, a place where unimaginable riches (or absolutely nothing) can supposedly be found at the bottom of a money pit that has eluded treasure seekers for centuries.Originally, the money pit was found in 1795 by a teenager named Daniel McGinnis who claimed he saw mysterious lights coming from the island, and upon investigating, found a small circular hole . Christian and the treasure hunting team are looking forward to using new technology to scan the bottom of the lake for possible anomalies, and hope to find a treasure which was missed in past searchers. More maps appeared showing various locations of a lost silver mine. 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. The Lagina Brothers, famous for their search for the lost treasure on Oak Island and featured in the show The Curse of Oak Island, now hosts a new show called, Beyond Oak Island. Download Free PDF. Houston historian Gary Pinkerton, a Longview native, is fascinated by those treasure hunters and their searches. brought up to the surface. Having grown up hearing these stories about buried treasure and now searching for it himself, hes becoming a part of history. endobj click photo for more. One thing is certain though, East Texans will continue to be fascinated by stories like these. Lake Ridge (5) Las Olas Isles (5) Las Olas by the Sea (0) Lauder Gate Isles (2) . The box was hidden by millionaire art dealer. 3 talking about this. According to one legend, a group of priests put about three hundred burro loads of silver in a mine on one of their expeditions to New Mexico. Follow the link to read our updated Privacy Policy. I determined that there were maybe five that might have contained some sort of treasure. Just let me know if you find anything so I can break the story first. According to reports, the total bounty would be worth more than $1.36 million today. His main focus is on Jean Lafittes treasure, . Any "COB" finds in Texas I was just wondering if any member in Texas has found any cobs, reales, etc. Hendricks Lake is a special place for Roper. endobj To view perks for contributors or to make a donation towards completion of the film, visit www.gofundme.com/sunkensilver. 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. For Roper, stories like these are more than a curiosity. He bought some steam engines and pumps, had a months worth of logs to keep the steam engines going and was gonna drain the lake. Sometime around 1816,six wagon loads of Spanish silver ingots, allegedly stolen by the pirate Jean Laffite, were being transported through what is now East Texas. March 11 Saturday Daylight Wasting C-tier . Peter Walker Adams lived in one of the houses on the hill near the lake and figured prominently in many of the newspaper stories. \Dy@tw sde!F@D}@10 4c/ 150 0 obj In the 1880s through the 1970s East Texas was, in most parts, very poor, very rural and it gave people something to believe in, it gave them their attachment to the beyond,. Every dollar helps. The first documented treasure recovery attempt in 1894 was based on the belief that Santa Anna had dumped gold, silver, and jewels, By 1935, a full-page syndicated article fleshed out more details. Despite this, no silver bars were found. But did it even exist? Although $25,000 worth of coins and jewelry have been accounted for, no one knows where the rest of the loot went, and Collins and Bass were killed before they revealed anything. Gary is currently working on a history of Spanish East Texas focused between 1770 and 1813. Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos. In one Internet posting, I read the following: Texas has more buried treasure than any other state, with 229 sites within the states borders. In one account, Pinkerton recalls doing research and finding a story about the son of the founder of Tatum. During his research for Trammals Trace, Pinkerton came upon the legend and it was something he tucked away and parked for a little while.. Read More about Texas Tea Slot, about Jean Laffites treasure in the Sabine River.
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