accepts, and the show continues at Hendricks Lake in East Texas. 148 0 obj Well, according to a story by Mary Rogers of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, there is evidence that in the early 1800s the theft did happen and that Jean Lafittes men, afraid that they were about to be ambushed, pushed several wagons loaded with silver ingots into the muddy waters. THE LEGEND A brig named Santa Rosa plundered in Matagorda Bay in 1816. 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. Legend has it that the ship was so big it took two months to load and the Spanish were so upset with its loss that they sent five more ships to recover it- unsuccessfully. Some fishermen in the last century pulled several silver bars from those very waters with a hoop net. 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.. He had heard about the Trace from his dad as a portion of it runs through family land. endobj In 1965, led a team of Iowans in some aborted, but ambitious, attempts at the treasure. There are two legends in particular that seem to have found purchase in the minds of East Texas treasure hunters. Texas oilmen. Hendricks Lake was the sight of many treasure hunts over the course of the 20th century. In 1969 an MIT graduate with a degree in electrical engineering and a patent for an underwater device for locating metals motored along the surface of Hendricks Lake in an eight-foot fiberglass boat towing his electronics. You have permission to edit this article. None of (the rest) lines up, but 1860s, 1870s, there was enough yada yada to create some story.. And You Thought Feral Hogs Were Bad. It certainly had promise since it was a round piece of wood, like the legend of the wagon sunk in the lake. The search is called off for the time being. But a giant storm hit the area, destroying the raft and washing away all the evidence. 159 0 obj The information comes from books and treasure hunting Web sites (the best of which are legendsofamerica.com and treasurefish.com).
Charles Fitzhugh Grice had the technology needed to find Spanish silver if the treasure was there. Pinkerton had to get special permission to visit for research and to take pictures. 0000002763 00000 n
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Jean Laffite's treasure in the Sabine River - Lone star treasure <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(www.easttexashistorical.org)/Rect[308.5376 282.2367 447.0903 295.1273]/StructParent 4/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> And then he became postmaster two years later, so apparently nothing came of that. In attempting to honor what he perceives to be Fenn's wishes . 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. January 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn? 158 0 obj According to Swanger, the treasure was hidden beneath a dead tree at a place called Heughs Canyon Trail, at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Utah. In 1915 in New Orleans a worker uncovered a chest filled with more than 1,500 doubloons . Somewhere with access to treasure-laden vessels, open coast, and trails and waterways to transport stolen goods. This warrants some underwater metal detectors to be taken endobj 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. Thats the one thing we all agree on about Sunken Silver, is that legend is a very powerful thing.. For more information on Sunken Silver, visit www.sunkensilver.com. 0000000016 00000 n
But people buy into it, and thats the part thats interesting to me.. Barnie Waldrop, a Carthage television repairman, had used his own electronics to search the lake for years. 0000044783 00000 n
One thing is certain though, East Texans will continue to be fascinated by stories like these.
Hendricks Lake Map - Texas, United States - Mapcarta <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(Tell us)/Rect[72.0 211.9047 103.6572 224.7953]/StructParent 7/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> 151 0 obj They know its there. Six wagon loads of silver carried north along Trammels Trace. . Its just a great story and what intrigued me was the people engaged in that all over those 100 years.. Believed the treasure was in Martin Creek after meeting old Mexicans with a map when he was just a boy. In the final battle of the War of 1812, Lafitte and his comrades helped General Andrew Jackson defend New Orleans against the British. Texas Lege Watch: A House Republican Fights for Chicken Freedom, Texas Monthly Recognized by ASME in the 2023 National Magazine Awards. Pinkerton. "My father and his friends shared the Hendricks Lake treasure legend with me when I was very young, perhaps 6 or 7 years old," Roper said. It was one of the first times I met with Brackston after we graduated university last summer, Roper recalled. endobj
7 Instances Of Lost Treasure In PA That Might Still Remain The duo are currently working to make a documentary about the local legend of sunken silver ingots in the lake near Tatum. Singer Treasure on Padre Island In the mid-nineteenth century, a man named Isaac Merritt Singer made significant improvements to the sewing machine. Join the adventures in Beyond Oak Island- Tuesdays at 10PM and summaries and more in depth looks into the many stories of treasure, here at MW! For information on, or to order Trammels Trace, visit www.trammelstrace.com. IXK\!%X[CQq tfI&JA PAefQj$9k,HmN})
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_IXEvFmoj8!~X!HL: Laffite approached them and was granted a commission and given command over a 43-ton schooner named General Santander. The Fenn Treasure was a cache of gold and jewels that Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author from Santa Fe, New Mexico, hid in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. wATCH THE EPISODE HERE. 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. Essentially, somehow treasure came up in conversation and I had asked him if hed ever heard about the story of pirate treasure being lost in East Texas and we started slowly looking into it. All Rights Reserved. Filmmaker Brackston McKnight uses a metal detector on his property, searching for lost treasure. A brig named Santa Rosa plundered in Matagorda Bay in 1816. 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. 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. .
Treasure Hunters Find Mysterious Shipwreck in Lake Michigan Others have mounted full-scale salvage expeditions with backhoes and monster trucks and whatnot. Roper himself had first heard the legend when he was a young boy and has returned to it intermittently throughout his life.
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Hendrick's Lake treasure is focus of Houston historian's upcoming book, By Stella Wieser No matter the evidence, they knew there were more ships filled with riches..
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Hidden Treasure Chest Filled With Gold And Gems Is Found In Rocky Mountains 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. In 1884, the guy Tatum is named after thought he would drain the lake, Pinkerton said. 0000003470 00000 n
We are a community-supported, non-profit organization and we humbly ask for your support because the careful and accurate recording of our history has never been more important. Sight was acquired & transformed back in 2018 by Anthony Bruno, founder of Anthony's Runway 84 & Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza along wit 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. Published by the Texas State Historical Association. Fort Worth Daily Gazette, October 3, 1884. "I do not know the person who found it, but the poem in my book led him to the precise spot," Fenn writes. After sitting undisturbed for more than 10 years, a treasure chest holding gold nuggets and precious gems has been found in the Rocky Mountains. The location was later widely believed to be Hendricks Lake, an oxbow lake formation on the south side of the Sabine River. In 2018, we decided to renew the legend with some information of our own. Christian click photo for more. In 1884, Tatum clubbed a man to death who made light of his attempts to drain Hendricks Lake. This page is for discussion about that early history,. So read this, get up, and go after your pot of gold. Alternate versions of that story have been documented since the 1880s, with variations including that the silver was from Santa Anna and the battle of San Jacinto and that the treasure was in a different location nearby. Most of the cobs or old Spanish finds I've seen on the forum are either from Florida or the Upper East Cost. 146 23 Jean Laffite was a French pirate and privateer born circa 1780. :icon_scratch: Thanks, Ernie Roper is the director of a four-part documentary series about the Hendricks Lake legend titled Sunken Silver. The documentary follows Ropers personal journey with the story, starting when he first heard it at 7-years-old and chronicling his dives and searches at Hendricks Lake. MW Questions: Are Keywords for the Null Cipher Used in The Great US Treasure Hunt? The silver was never recovered. Pinkerton himself doesnt personally believe there was any silver brought through East Texas during the time in which the legend takes place because the roads were little more than Indian trails. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents()/Rect[493.2393 594.2333 540.0 607.124]/StructParent 3/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> Pinkerton is an enigmatic figure. The film will center around local lore of a lost treasure of $2 million in silver ingots said to have been stolen by French pirate Jean Laffite and hidden by smugglers in Hendricks Lake, a. It featured Pirate Treasures. Just another myth? The son of the founder of the town of Tatum. .
My father did do a bit of treasure hunting and more notably he was involved in a few treasure hunting circles of scuba divers. Christian B. Roper on a scouting trip for his film . For information on, or to order True Believers, visit www.hendrickslake.com. Hendricks Lake, once a commonly-frequented lake both for recreation and treasure hunting, is no longer accessible to the public. they might find something, a storm rolls in. Its got quite a long story in the community. 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. Im going to talk to his son, who was 14 or so when they were out at the lake. We organized some strategic searches via dives doing grid patterns and things of that sort to try to get those up.. True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake. June 6, 2020 - Fenn writes on his blog that the treasure has been found. For Roper, stories like these are more than a curiosity. Success! Pinkerton also maintains facebook pages Trammels Trace and Hendricks Lake Treasure-True Believers. And he says, Treasure has a way of keeping its secrets. A light came on when the probe hit metal. 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 . Pinkerton came across the Hendricks Lake legend while doing research for his book, Trammals Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North. Hendricks Lake was By the time the summer of 1958 had ended, Waldrop, buzzing again and the moss-laden oaks echoed the sound of the SoRelles, and all of the other treasure hunters spurred on heavy equipment and trucks pulling in for another attempt. Handbook of Texas Online, 147 0 obj Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake" but he is not a 'true believer' himself. Legend has it that Basss part of the money is in Cove Hollow, about thirty miles from Denton. Christian Roper and Brackston McKnight, film makers. . Many came to the lake to drain, dredge, dig, dynamite and scan its murky depths. La Belle was a French ship that sank in Matagorda Bay in 1685 after running aground in a storm. Gary is currently working on a history of Spanish East Texas focused between 1770 and 1813. down. Having already written a book on Trammels Trace, a road running through Tatum which he noted was the first road to Texas from the north, Pinkerton is now embarking on a journey to research the people and the reasons for the treasure hunting extravaganza for an upcoming book.
Agent Hendricks | National Treasure Wiki | Fandom 152 0 obj 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. Is there anything better than the tale of someone discovering a hidden clue, figuring out an obscure reference, finding the final piece of the puzzle, and then discovering a fantastic stash of gold or silver? 10 Lost Treasures in America Waiting to be Found. Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. There is a legend surrounding a supposed lost treasure in East Texas, one that filmmaker Christian B. Roper and his team have been researching for a documentary production, Sunken Silver. 0000003134 00000 n
Fire Ants Have Unleashed Chaos in Texas for Decades. Legend holds that the Pirate Jean LaFitte, or in some other versions Santa Anna, left treasure at Hendricks Lake near Tatum. 161 0 obj The man who found a hidden treasure chest said to be worth about $2 million last summer in the Rocky Mountains one that had tantalized fortune seekers for a decade, led to at least two deaths. endobj <> 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. He was now legally authorized by Great Colombia to take Spanish ships.
$37 billion of treasure hidden around Germany - news This catch rendered a lot of attention and by 1884, the Sabine River was riddled with silver hunters. Since that time, many parties and individuals have endeavored to find the Lost Treasure of Hendricks Lake, with searches as early as 1884 and as recently as the 1970s.