In the final battle of the War of 1812, Lafitte and his comrades helped General Andrew Jackson defend New Orleans against the British. But to this day, treasure hunters are unswayed. A dirt contractor. I determined that there were maybe five that might have contained some sort of treasure. Texas Lege Watch: A House Republican Fights for Chicken Freedom, Texas Monthly Recognized by ASME in the 2023 National Magazine Awards. wooden object recovered during dive for the taping On the episode, diver Alex Wilcher brought up the one item found during the days spent searching. Dallas Morning News, August 1, 1965. Barnie was a TV repair man, and he had built this underwater metal detector, like the size of a washing machine. The real story of Hendricks Lake is not the legend alone, it is about the people who believed it fervently enough to put their time and money on the line in the hope of recovering it. The treasure, placed in a. A Book by Gary L. Pinkerton, author of "Trammel's Trace". If the treasure is out there, then some East Texan is bound to find it. We Found Out Archaeologists on Easter Island Have Discovered a Previously Unknown Moai Statue Buried in a Dried-Out Lake Bed Christie's Pulled In $202 Million at Its 20th/21st-Century Sales in . The popularity of treasure hunting during this time period was profiled in numerous pulp magazines and news features, and the business of supplying treasure hunters was page one news in the Wall Street Journal. Stella Wieser was a reporter at the Panola Watchman from June 2018 to April 2022. So all these treasure magazines sprung around these treasure hunting, metal detectors, stories about lost mines. Gary L . The legends a legend, but the people that believed it and the effort they went through to actually find it despite obvious questions about the details, Pinkerton stated. including dialogue . Mainly clear. The mud is deep on the bottom, and just as The story revolves around oil fields in Texas, USA. Tales of pirate booty and Mexican gold have captivated minds for generations, and it all could be closer than you might think. Soldiers approach, wagons sunk in Hendricks Lake, an oxbow lake just south of the Sabine River in northeastern Rusk County. Tyler oilman who partnered with Charles Fitzhugh Grice to do underwater metal detection in 1969. Also join us in the Facebook Group: Beyond Oak Island Treasures for more discussions. 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.. The 1907 theft included the removal of a diamond star, pendant, and the collars of five knights of the Order. trailer The men, in fear of Spanish retaliation, are said to have hidden the wagons in a nearby body of water. In 1884, Tatum clubbed a man to death who made light of his attempts to drain Hendricks Lake. 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. Our new Privacy Policy will go into effect on January 1st, 2023. 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. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents( \n h t t p s : / / s c h o l a r w o r k s . In 1915 in New Orleans a worker uncovered a chest filled with more than 1,500 doubloons . 0000001390 00000 n
He is the primary antagonist of season one of National Treasure: Edge of History. <<83DDF97377B4B2110A0000A4D0C2FC7F>]/Prev 639425>> 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). 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. . Christian knows his pirate history! Stories are how we interact as people and its how we grow. 01 April 2017. My interest in the treasure legend turned into an article for the East Texas Historical Journal and the seeds for this book. 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. Six wagon loads of silver carried north along Trammels Trace. %%EOF 146 23 Their father, Barnie Waldrop, was the most active local treasure hunter. 0000001207 00000 n
By The Siberian Times reporter. 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. 155 0 obj 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. Lake Ridge (5) Las Olas Isles (5) Las Olas by the Sea (0) Lauder Gate Isles (2) . 162 0 obj 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. In 1965 a professional syndicate of treasure hunters, men who worked together at a packaging company in LeClaire, Iowa, and led by Clarence A. endobj There are two legends in particular that seem to have found purchase in the minds of East Texas treasure hunters. Barnie Waldrop of carthage was one of the more persistent treasure hunters. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(Provide feedback)/Rect[392.1938 211.9047 476.7295 224.7953]/StructParent 8/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> The hidden fortunes of the Doan Boys Gang, said to be $2 million at least. Pictured from left, Gary Pinkerton, Brackson McKnight and Christian Roper. 0000000756 00000 n
Every dollar helps. Having grown up hearing these stories about buried treasure and now searching for it himself, hes becoming a part of history. In the early 1820s, Great Colombia under the government of Simon Bolivar had begun commissioning former privateers as officers in their newly formed navy. 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. Some fishermen in the last century pulled several silver bars from those very waters with a hoop net. He is portrayed by Armando Riesco. A nearby lake fed by the Sabine River also caught their attention, since the silver might have been transported there by the current. 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. Roper himself had first heard the legend when he was a young boy and has returned to it intermittently throughout his life. Photo: WhisperToMe, Public domain. A team of treasure hunters could be on the verge of unearthing the "world's largest treasure hoard," said to be worth over $20 billion. His interest is in the people who have acted on their belief in the legend. For Roper, stories like these are more than a curiosity. Here are six of the supposedly greatest Texas treasures still out there. The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry. &m;vH}p,$[%7?7hm'm&@A2Ef8IR%%p.Bs.H'QKR 5 ]sHT. 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. endstream 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. 1``b`5 Y0$ Au`j`H@ Even though some, including Waldrop and Stotlar, had looked into draining the lake, there were no other attempts at that folly. Excited about the history, research, and prospects of this Read More about Texas Tea Slot, about Jean Laffites treasure in the Sabine River. Akins and one of his former deputies were landowners along the lake and active onlookers with a piece of the action. The legend says that in 1816, Laffite and his fellow pirates plundered six wagon loads worth of silver from the Spanish. 0000006665 00000 n
My favorite part of the legend is that the Guadalupe Mission in El Paso was built in way so that the shadows of the mission point to the Lost Padre Mine. Laffite spent the rest of his life attacking merchant ships around Central American ports; sometimes as a pirate and sometimes as a privateer. Jean Laffite was a French pirate and privateer born circa 1780. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents()/Rect[130.3037 595.1786 171.4307 606.1786]/StructParent 2/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> The Lakeview Motel's name is false advertising these dry days. Every penny counts! Other stories of Pirate Treasures are discussed. (Image credit: Pictorial Press Ltd./Alamy) British . 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 divers do feel some round objects, and a piece is He was reading a book about lost treasure that inspired him to do some digging online, where he found supposed evidence that a ship was lurking underneath the water. 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. 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. . Most of the cobs or old Spanish finds I've seen on the forum are either from Florida or the Upper East Cost. The enduring story of Hendricks Lake is a treasure legend that has been around for more than 150 years. Historian Gary Pinkerton says the legend is mostly unsubstantiated. startxref If you would like to help, our fundraising campaign can be found here. 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 . He maintains websites for Trammels Trace and for Hendricks Lake, as well as social media Facebook groups for both stories. "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. His website is www.trammelstrace.com. <>/MediaBox[0 0 612 792]/Parent 142 0 R/Resources<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/Tabs/S/Type/Page>> (Courtesy of Andy Swanger) As far as more. Just let me know if you find anything so I can break the story first. Building on that production they are airing a new 8-episode series titled "Beyond Oak Island" premiering Tuesday, November 17 at 9:00 pm central. they might find something, a storm rolls in. His body was buried at sea in the Gulf of Honduras. 30 April 2021 AFP It is one of Sweden's most spectacular Bronze Age finds A man surveying a forest for his orienteering club in western Sweden stumbled on a trove of Bronze Age treasure reckoned. 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. Six wagon loads of silver carried north along Trammel's Trace. For more information on Sunken Silver, visit www.sunkensilver.com. This caused the And if so is the treasure still there? Some tough local lawmen. Some said it was Santa Annas gold sent north from San Jacinto, and others say it was not even in Hendricks Lake, but in Martin Creek. endstream Christian B. Roper, Ryan Travis, and Brackston McKnight, all Jacksonville natives, are working toward a documentary film about Hendricks Lake called Sunken Silver. The people who believed the legend enough to pursue it were a diverse lot. Read More about USS Hatteras, This is a funny little slot filled with intricate features and attention-grabbing symbols. It was a cloudy evening with low visibility, and Laffite attempted to capture what appeared to be two Spanish merchant vessels. So nothing lines up; its just factually, there was no road that would carry wagons at that time. The July 17, 1958 edition of the Panola Watchman includes this update on a search for Jean LaFittes treasure at Hendricks Lake near Tatum. 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. Blackbeard and the mysterious unsolved code of Olivier Levassuer, or The Buzzard, are mentioned. Lr !_) 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. Ive actually been at this project about 14 months now. Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake" but he is not a 'true believer' himself. The first episode premiered on Tuesday November 17 at 10PM EST on the History Channel. 0000003684 00000 n
An estimated $340 million., And as I write, the treasure hunters are out there, hunting, hunting, and hunting. s f a s u . People from Texas, Louisiana, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Kentucky, California, and even England wanted to find that treasure. It is my sincere belief that the Hendricks Lake treasure was silver taken by Lafitte from capturing of the Spanish ship Santa Rosa in Matagorda Bay in 1820. 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 . The total value? He had heard about the Trace from his dad as a portion of it runs through family land. 0000007400 00000 n
Visibility is nil, so it is a touchy situation. It certainly had promise since it was a round piece of wood, like the legend of the wagon sunk in the lake. 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. endobj 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. 4. 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. In fact, this same story about Lafitte treasure being lost somewhere, was repeated over and over in almost the same pattern from the Gulf Coast all the way up into Arkansas and Missouri.. Others have mounted full-scale salvage expeditions with backhoes and monster trucks and whatnot. James Bowie went on an expedition to find it. On his website, Fenn wrote, "It was under a. Secret stash of tsar's gold worth billions found in old rail tunnel near Lake Baikal. 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. 152 0 obj 0000002542 00000 n
And if so is the treasure still there? True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake. Please post photos and a general area if you have . Mainly clear. The Cherokees started getting their butts kicked. And he says, Treasure has a way of keeping its secrets. All they found was a big sawblade from one of the sawmills that had operated on the lake; they left the artifact behind for future treasure hunters. We had not even known that he had heard of the treasure. This is the list to receive occasional emails containing special offers, deals and promotions (like contests). Its got quite a long story in the community. Hendrick's Lake treasure is focus of Houston historian's upcoming book, By Stella Wieser Aug. 6, 2015 9:51 AM PT. 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. Winds light and variable. Its hard to find any newspaper before that, but thats the first and oldest mention that I found of it, he said. Its no surprise that East Texas has local tales of buried treasure. 2019. Believed the treasure was in Martin Creek after meeting old Mexicans with a map when he was just a boy. 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. 160 0 obj This is just the beginning! Fort Pierce. But alas, nothing came of it. The Lost Treasure of Hendricks Lake The infamous pirate of the Gulf Jean Lafitte took a $2 million fortune in silver from a Spanish galleon and supposedly buried it in the Sabine River near the East Texas town of Sabine. In 2018, we decided to renew the legend with some information of our own. He found what he was looking for in the Spanish colony of Texas. endobj If information about one of the last searchers had been documented and publicized it would likely have discouraged further similar attempts in the future. Fearing an ambush by Native Americans, they then decided to hide the treasure by pushing it into the muddy waters of the Sabine River. But people buy into it, and thats the part thats interesting to me.. Forrest Wilder writes about politics and the outdoors. Houston historian Gary Pinkerton, a Longview native, is fascinated by those treasure hunters and their searches. In the last chapter of the book, I really talk about where do we go from here now., Theres something inherent in us that wants to believe those legends, Pinkerton stated. As a young girl, Diana pushed the plunger to set off dynamite. 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. In 1884, the guy Tatum is named after thought he would drain the lake, Pinkerton said. 2. The lake is located in the extreme northeastern part of the county along the boundary between Rusk and Panola. However, all have failed in finding the supposed cache of silver, adding to speculation that the supposed treasure may be cursed. A man named Nathan Smith thinks he's found the remnants of a sunken ship from an 1822 hurricane north of Corpus Christi - thanks to Google Earth. Both American coasts abound with tales of buried pirate treasure. And then again, the 50s and 60s, there were a bunch of these treasure magazines about metal detectors. IXK\!%X[CQq tfI&JA PAefQj$9k,HmN})
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To the north of Tatum, in the middle of the forest, lies Lake Hendrix. THE LEGEND A brig named Santa Rosa plundered in Matagorda Bay in 1816. It was found approximately a decade later in 2020 in Wyoming by an anonymous treasure hunter later revealed to be former journalist and medical student Jack Stuef. The self-proclaimed worlds greatest underwater treasure hunter wrote several articles about Hendricks Lake for pulp magazines of the 50s and 60s. He initially doesn't release any details on the finder or location. Contacts. 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.
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