After completing high school in Virginia, she moved to New York City and pursued a career as a model following her entry into a Seventeen cover contest. Little is known about his origins, but he was probably born either in Basque-France or in the French colony Saint-Domingue. Fearing an ambush by Native Americans, they then decided to hide the treasure by pushing it into the muddy waters of the Sabine River. The story revolves around oil fields in Texas, USA. 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. A Seagoville pharmacist who sailed around the world. The self-proclaimed worlds greatest underwater treasure hunter wrote several articles about Hendricks Lake for pulp magazines of the 50s and 60s. Sight was acquired & transformed back in 2018 by Anthony Bruno, founder of Anthony's Runway 84 & Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza along wit George Mallory (left) with Andrew Irvine in the last known photo of them on their fatal Everest climb in June 1924. Jimmy Carters Peanut-and-Egg Taco Made Quite the Impression on San Antonians, How Florence ButtNot Her SonLaunched the H-E-B Empire, The Top 50 Texas BBQ Joints: 2021 Edition, Saying Goodbye to Fairfield Lake State Park. The son of Corbett Akins, Brodie grew up with Hendricks Lake as a routine part of his life and still owned that land on the lake until mining began. There are still treasure hunters to this day who believe the Lafitte fortune would be found if the lake was drained. 149 0 obj To him it is the Chase and the history. Pinkerton is hoping to publish his book some time in the new year and is interested in finding more people with first and second hand accounts of the treasure hunting. 0000000756 00000 n Signup today for our free newsletter, Especially Texan. 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. they might find something, a storm rolls in. In a location on the lake, matching the tale, with a sloped 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 . North of Tatum, in the middle of the woods, lies Hendricks Lake. LAKE ISABELLA, Calif . 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. Sheriff of Carthage, who co-owned 470 acres on the northwest end of the lake with Corbett Akins. Whether the treasure is truly out there or not remains to be proven. The 1907 theft included the removal of a diamond star, pendant, and the collars of five knights of the Order. When the Embargo Act of 1807 came into force, the Laffite brothers moved their business from New Orleans to an island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. 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. After years of searching, Roper is still optimistic, and he said that his commitment to Hendricks Lake will still be there no matter what he finds. ingots were in transport, but the Spanish had set a trap. Fort Pierce. His website is titled True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake but he is not a true believer himself. Later, someone else who got high metal readings tried to dynamite the bottom of the lake. And an MIT-trained electrical engineer who held a patent for underwater metal detection. What they would love to find, if not the silver, are clues to the treasure at least being there. Its hard to find any newspaper before that, but thats the first and oldest mention that I found of it, he said. endobj May the hunters strike gold. Just another myth? . 4. endobj Discovering history is part of the adventure, and that never ends. Hendrick's Lake treasure is focus of Houston historian's upcoming book, By Stella Wieser 150 0 obj 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. Royal discovery made after 99-year-old code is broken by Siberian mathematics genius. He knows more than a thing or two about the present . The story goes that Union soldiers tracked down Confederate president Jefferson Davis in 1865 and confiscated his gold. The land was sold sometime in the last 20 years and is now within a restricted mining area. The team has found several people who have direct . 2018 Sunken Silver. 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.. (Image credit: Pictorial Press Ltd./Alamy) British . If you would like to help, our fundraising campaign can be found here. 0000001207 00000 n startxref On his website, Fenn wrote, "It was under a. 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 2011, Michigan-based treasure hunters Kevin Dykstra and Frederick Monroe found a shipwreck as they were searching for the $2 million in gold that, according to local legend, fell from a. 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. 146 0 obj and the story of the Hendricks Lake treasure is no different. The hidden fortunes of the Doan Boys Gang, said to be $2 million at least. He frequently returned to Galveston or the barrier islands near New Orleans to unload booty or take on supplies procured by Pierre. 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. 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. 153 0 obj 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,. 0000002763 00000 n 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. If pirate plunder and sunken silver hidden in a lake seem like the elements of folklore, they are. Hendricks Lake, The total value? hunt presented by Christian, Rick and Marty offer to send Matty Blake down to 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. 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. 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. The desire to believe that millions of dollars of silver bars still lie at the bottom of Hendricks Lake is not for the treasure hunters only. Although the lake was searched in the 50s and 60s, nothing was found at that time. trailer There are people who spend their whole lives and considerable sums of money searching for sunken treasure ships, lost mines, and hidden loot. Gary L. Pinkerton, The silver was never recovered. This is just the beginning! In doing the research, I ran across stories about Hendricks Lake, Pinkerton said. Gary L . 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. for the most familiar version of the legend. <> 0000003684 00000 n 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. 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. In 1925, W.E. 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. By using deep-sea sonar technology that can pierce the thick mud and clay at the bottom of the lake, Roper said he may have found a cart or wagon that might have moved treasure to the lake. 155 0 obj Clarksville Standard, August 29, 1884. <>/Metadata 144 0 R/Outlines 97 0 R/Pages 141 0 R/StructTreeRoot 102 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> 161 0 obj People from Texas, Louisiana, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Kentucky, California, and even England wanted to find that treasure. A pharmacist. Kuna, ID hosted by Treasure Valley Disc Golf. The legend says that in 1816, Laffite and his fellow pirates plundered six wagon loads worth of silver from the Spanish. 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. This book is the story of those people. &m;vH}p,$[%7?7hm'm&@A2Ef8IR%%p.Bs.H'QKR 5 ]sHT. Christian is not discouraged. accepts, and the show continues at Hendricks Lake in East Texas. For Pinkerton, the treasure of Hendricks Lake is its history and the people who have believed in the legend over the years. accessed March 05, 2023, Oak Island Treasure Found May 18, 2021 Gagare1952 13.4K subscribers Subscribe 1.2K 292K views 1 year ago Breaking News: My friend John from Oak Island spend his whole life looking for that. <> Six wagon loads of silver carried north along Trammel's Trace. Having grown up hearing these stories about buried treasure and now searching for it himself, hes becoming a part of history. He was now legally authorized by Great Colombia to take Spanish ships. Trammel's Trace-The First Road to Texas from the North is a 2016 book by Gary L. Pinkerton. <>stream The basic story is that in 1816 silver stolen by pirate Jean Lafitte from the Spanish brig Santa Rosa was being moved north from Matagorda Bay to St. Louis, Missouri, for disposal. The duo are currently working to make a documentary about the local legend of sunken silver ingots in the lake near Tatum. 0000003134 00000 n 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. Hendricks Lake near Tatum is now off limits to the public because it is on land owned by a mining company. Secret stash of tsar's gold worth billions found in old rail tunnel near Lake Baikal. According to reports, the total bounty would be worth more than $1.36 million today. Here are six of the supposedly greatest Texas treasures still out there. When a producer for The History Channel contacted me in early summer, the legend was about to add a new chapter to the story.The Lagina brothers of Oak Island fame were beginning a new series, Beyond Oak Island, and the story of Hendricks Lake was the premiere episode on November 17, 2020. . <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents()/Rect[72.0 594.2333 124.3037 607.124]/StructParent 1/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> down. Roper has been pursuing the legend and examining where and how the various parts of the story originated. \Dy@tw sde!F@D}@10 4c/ Lets be honest, everybody loves a good treasure story. 0000003902 00000 n Or Black Lake. But people buy into it, and thats the part thats interesting to me.. I once made a scientific study of all the known shipwrecks, from ancient to modern, that occurred off the Texas coast. Our new Privacy Policy will go into effect on January 1st, 2023. Spring is situated 3 miles northeast of Hendricks Lake. 159 0 obj Handbook of Texas Online, As of May 2022, she resides in Austin and does media relations for TCEQ. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(Provide feedback)/Rect[392.1938 211.9047 476.7295 224.7953]/StructParent 8/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> Christian knows his pirate history! Mainly clear. Charles F. Grice, Interview by Gary Pinkerton, February 2019. The divers do feel some round objects, and a piece is Since 2014, Rick and Marty Lagina have produced "The Curse of Oak Island" for The HISTORY Channel. Its got quite a long story in the community. The open-endedness and lack of conclusion is what attracts Roper to the story today. Published by the Texas State Historical Association. 2. Some fishermen in the last century pulled several silver bars from those very waters with a hoop net. And You Thought Feral Hogs Were Bad. Laffite approached them and was granted a commission and given command over a 43-ton schooner named General Santander. 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. 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. Peoples commitment to myths, tall tales and legends is powerful, according to Pinkerton. My interest in the treasure legend turned into an article for the East Texas Historical Journal and the seeds for this book. He found what he was looking for in the Spanish colony of Texas. . Spanish silver stolen by the privateer, Jean Lafitte. Spanish silver stolen by the privateer, Jean Lafitte. Both American coasts abound with tales of buried pirate treasure. the new book is available in paperback. It was one of the first times I met with Brackston after we graduated university last summer, Roper recalled. That lucky treasure hunter who finds where X marks the spot, will become an East Texas legend, just like the treasure they strove to find. For more information about this incredible project and to see a short film trailer, go to their website at www.sunkensilver.com. Gary Pinkerton, True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake, East Texas Historical Journal 47 (2009). 0000007400 00000 n endobj In 1965 a professional syndicate of treasure hunters, men who worked together at a packaging company in LeClaire, Iowa, and led by Clarence A. All in all, several wagons loaded with silver ingots went into the river. 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 . By 1829, the mythical lost silver mine of San Saba began appearing on Austins maps of Texas. Im hoping someday that people can get back down there, Pinkerton said. 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. 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). The last. Akins and one of his former deputies were landowners along the lake and active onlookers with a piece of the action. wATCH THE EPISODE HERE. He is the primary antagonist of season one of National Treasure: Edge of History. Gary L. Pinkerton is an author and independent researcher. 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. Others have mounted full-scale salvage expeditions with backhoes and monster trucks and whatnot. The NOAA says the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and partners first found the Ohio in Lake Huron in 2017. 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. Follow the link to read our updated Privacy Policy. Read More about Jean Laffites treasure in the Sabine River, USS Hatteras (formerly St. Mary) was a 1,126-ton steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the early part of the American Civil War. Famous privateer who, according to legend, plundered the silver from the Spanish brig, Santa Rosa. When researching Trammels Trace for my last book, I encountered the treasure legend of Hendricks Lake. There's no wonder it took 17 years to scour the ocean floor for this ship's treasure- a treasure lost in 1622 off the Keys. True West Magazine article on Jean Lafitte. A Book by Gary L. Pinkerton, author of "Trammel's Trace", Ive seen fifty of em beaten by the lakes bog bottom, from oil explorers and water witchers to plain nuts. . Jos R. Ralat is Texas Monthlys taco editor, writing about tacos and Mexican food. The treasure, placed in a. 0000010052 00000 n (In English documents, his last name was often spelled Lafitte, but Laffite was the spelling used by Jean and his brother Pierre.). No one's found the Spanish silver cache, but some treasure seekers in this area have struck gold-or gemstones, as the case may be. Fort Worth Daily Gazette, October 3, 1884. Houston historian Gary Pinkerton, a Longview native, is fascinated by those treasure hunters and their searches. January 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn? The enduring story of Hendricks Lake is a treasure legend that has been around for more than 150 years. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(Tell us)/Rect[72.0 211.9047 103.6572 224.7953]/StructParent 7/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> That's . We organized some strategic searches via dives doing grid patterns and things of that sort to try to get those up.. Barnie Waldrop. Mainly clear. There are two legends in particular that seem to have found purchase in the minds of East Texas treasure hunters. 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. endobj Overtime, Roper believes that this information was interpreted to mean that there was treasure in Hendricks Lake. An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. But a giant storm hit the area, destroying the raft and washing away all the evidence. 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. Things Found in the San Antonio River: Periodic draining of sections of the river have revealed skateboards, Mardi Gras beads, old bottles and a cell phone. Somebody made fun of him; he clubbed the guy to death. In 1915 in New Orleans a worker uncovered a chest filled with more than 1,500 doubloons . If information about one of the last searchers had been documented and publicized it would likely have discouraged further similar attempts in the future. Spanish soldiers in pursuit overtook the transport at Hendricks Lake and rather than give up the silver, the transport leader cut six wagonloads of silver loose and pushed them into Hendricks Lake. 147 0 obj endstream from oil explorers and water witchers to plain nuts.. Two oilmen from Texas actually brought a giant crane to the lake after getting some interesting readings from the bottom of Hendricks Lake. Jensen Beach. Lived at the lake, rented boats to people who wanted to fish. They got away with three thousand freshly-minted 1877 $20 gold pieces.

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