Please support the Cherokeean Herald by subscribing today. Continue Reading. THE LEGEND A brig named Santa Rosa plundered in Matagorda Bay in 1816. And if so is the treasure still there? By 1829, the mythical lost silver mine of San Saba began appearing on Austins maps of Texas. s f a s u . Many treasure hunters are convinced the money continues to lie beneath the mud of Little Cypress Creek in Upshur County. hunt presented by Christian, Rick and Marty offer to send Matty Blake down to Please post photos and a general area if you have . Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Jupiter Island. Sheriff of Carthage, who co-owned 470 acres on the northwest end of the lake with Corbett Akins. To view perks for contributors or to make a donation towards completion of the film, visit www.gofundme.com/sunkensilver. Read More about Texas Tea Slot, about Jean Laffites treasure in the Sabine River. It is now thought that the money is on the southernmost tip of Padre Island. For Pinkerton, the treasure of Hendricks Lake is its history and the people who have believed in the legend over the years. endobj down. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular articles. Roper himself had first heard the legend when he was a young boy and has returned to it intermittently throughout his life. [email protected], Stolen treasure, hidden mystery: Tatum-area lake lore focus of movie project. George Mallory's lost camera. 156 0 obj For information on, or to order Trammels Trace, visit www.trammelstrace.com. This lake has its dangers, of course. 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. His website is titled True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake but he is not a true believer himself. Historian Gary Pinkerton says the legend is mostly unsubstantiated. . He also might have(might have, I remind you)come across a wooden chest containing what was then $80,000 in jewelry and coins. More maps appeared showing various locations of a lost silver mine. During his research for Trammals Trace, Pinkerton came upon the legend and it was something he tucked away and parked for a little while.. If you fill out the first name, last name, or agree to terms fields, you will NOT be added to the newsletter list. March 11 Saturday Daylight Wasting C-tier . Christian Every dollar helps. 0000043284 00000 n 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. The stolen loot was smuggled north some years later but ended up in Lake. In this work you will find what I hope you found in my first book solid, thorough research and a story with which we can all connect. Photo: WhisperToMe, Public domain. According to reports, the total bounty would be worth more than $1.36 million today. Only recently did I learn of a parallel effort to tell the story of the Hendricks Lake treasure legend via film. though. It was packed with tons of gold and silver. 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. . It says so much about East Texas folklore. Christian Roper and Brackston McKnight, film makers. 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. He built a new kind of sewing machine, and in 1851 he started I.M. Snavely of Taylor, who had hunted treasure for 60 years, found a ruby arrowhead weighing 15 karats, along with many other gemstones. That's . 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. Success! They then filled in the shaft. Maybe they can help them in their search from the insights learned from their own pursuit of the Money Pit. 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. To contact Pinkerton, call (409) 201-8026 or email [email protected]. Most of the cobs or old Spanish finds I've seen on the forum are either from Florida or the Upper East Cost. Houston historian Gary Pinkerton, a Longview native, is fascinated by those treasure hunters and their searches. The lake is located in the extreme northeastern part of the county along the boundary between Rusk and Panola. Exclusive opportunity to purchase 1843 S. Federal Hwy, Andy's Live Fire Grill & Bar. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(United States History Commons)/Rect[137.2383 228.9906 279.5625 240.7094]/StructParent 6/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> 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. Jean Lafitte's treasure Photo of Hendricks Lake, courtesy of Gary L. Pinkerton . 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! Texas oilmen who later drilled an oil well based on scripture. The divers do feel some round objects, and a piece is I havent found anything to suggest that a centuries-worth of stories about buried treasure have any credence. 6. Texas Lege Watch: A House Republican Fights for Chicken Freedom, Texas Monthly Recognized by ASME in the 2023 National Magazine Awards. The last. Beyond Oak Island Summary of Episode 1: Pirate Treasures and the Search in Hendricks Lake for Jean Lafittes Lost Treasure. Even though some, including Waldrop and Stotlar, had looked into draining the lake, there were no other attempts at that folly. wATCH THE EPISODE HERE. 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. In 1983 a German biologist accidentally discovered more forged British pounds, numerous Nazi-era rockets and missiles that had crashed into the lake, and a previously unknown worm. The story goes that wagon loads of silver This book is the story of those people. and the story of the Hendricks Lake treasure is no different. Treasure Coast . 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. <>stream There will be people still in town who will remember Barnie Waldrop, Pinkerton said. The tale basically states Galveston-based pirate Jean Laffite, in the year 1816, plundered a Spanish ship named the Santa Rosa. 147 0 obj Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake" but he is not a 'true believer' himself. Blackbeard and the mysterious unsolved code of Olivier Levassuer, or The Buzzard, are mentioned. 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. endobj But if you dont like that version of the legend there are others. But people buy into it, and thats the part thats interesting to me.. Over the years there have been many who made a minimal effort or spent a little time at the lake only to discover that the conditions were too difficult and they had neither the time nor the money for such an undertaking. The silver was never recovered. I determined that there were maybe five that might have contained some sort of treasure. Hendericks was a member of the Cras Est Nostrum and became Salazar at some point in the past. The various people that searched for the Hendricks Lake treasure hooked him. It led all the way back to an 1884 account where the guy who was the son of the founder of Tatum, Texas in East Texas decided he was going to drain the lake. 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. The story was reporting the fact that Tatum beat a man to death who essentially made fun of that effort, Pinkerton said. Two years later, its researchers went on a mapping expedition with the . In 1912 it was like a big resort, come out and fish and real flowery language (in advertisements).. <<83DDF97377B4B2110A0000A4D0C2FC7F>]/Prev 639425>> In 1909 members of the United States Geological Survey visited the site, which they described as being unproductive. 0 In the 1950s, the Sabine River and the nearby lake (Hendrick's Lake) experienced a new onslaught of treasure seekers when the story of Laffite's silver was published by the True West magazine. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) 154 0 obj Just let me know if you find anything so I can break the story first. And then again, the 50s and 60s, there were a bunch of these treasure magazines about metal detectors. Lived at the lake, rented boats to people who wanted to fish. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents( \n h t t p s : / / s c h o l a r w o r k s . Pictured from left, Gary Pinkerton, Brackson McKnight and Christian Roper. brought up to the surface. They both were at the lake during the treasure hunts of 1957 and 1958. But did it even exist? 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. Tales of pirate booty and Mexican gold have captivated minds for generations, and it all could be closer than you might think. During the Mexican War of Independence, the Laffites served as spies for the Spanish, after moving to Galveston Island, Texas. 150 0 obj 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. He sent soldiers to look for it, but they found nothing. Low 47F. His website is www.trammelstrace.com. Contacts. Legend has it that Basss part of the money is in Cove Hollow, about thirty miles from Denton. 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. 152 0 obj A heating and air conditioning contractor. mATTY BLAKE (HOST) AND cHRISTIAN B. ROPER. 149 0 obj 0000002763 00000 n He frequently returned to Galveston or the barrier islands near New Orleans to unload booty or take on supplies procured by Pierre. . She was then forgotten for nearly 300 years. The NOAA says the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and partners first found the Ohio in Lake Huron in 2017. 0000003684 00000 n 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. . Later, someone else who got high metal readings tried to dynamite the bottom of the lake. For information on, or to order True Believers, visit www.hendrickslake.com. Eventually, the Mexicans unloaded the moneygold and silver coinsso they could make an escape. 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. Leave them blank to get signed up. In an interview with KETK, Pinkerton discussed the treasure, or lack thereof, at Hendricks Lake. Gary L. Pinkerton, Trammels Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016). Palm City. While Pinkerton believes the lake area should be a park, the reality is Hendricks Lake is no longer accessible by the public as the land surrounding it belongs to private land owners or is being leased by mining companies. His body was buried at sea in the Gulf of Honduras. accessed March 05, 2023, Can College Sports Get More Absurd Than SMU Joining the Pac-12? The parade of those who made documented efforts for the treasure included oilmen, a television repairman, a pharmacist, a grocery store owner, dirt contractors, water well diggers, fraudulent treasure hunting equipment hucksters, a heating and air-conditioning technician, and numerous other true believers. Searchers used aerial photos, underwater metal detectors, and magnetometers to aid in their efforts. "I do not know the person who found it, but the poem in my book led him to the precise spot," Fenn writes. For more information on Sunken Silver, visit www.sunkensilver.com. The open-endedness and lack of conclusion is what attracts Roper to the story today. trailer Pinkerton also maintains facebook pages Trammels Trace and Hendricks Lake Treasure-True Believers. xVy~}F0N13`&p"I9:tZ"-"}]{~~x/ c HfE4sowa-n_?B. And then he became postmaster two years later, so apparently nothing came of that. Oxbow lakes result from a river's course change, in this case the Sabine River just to thc north. Other stories of Pirate Treasures are discussed. The legend of Hendricks Lake treasure has inspired men to search for it for at least 150 years. The land was sold sometime in the last 20 years and is now within a restricted mining area. Hendrick's Lake treasure is focus of Houston historian's upcoming book, By Stella Wieser Its just a great story and what intrigued me was the people engaged in that all over those 100 years.. %%EOF When I found out theres essentially a documentary, a great one right here in East Texas waiting to be put out there, I was just excited to try to do everything I could to make that happen, he commented. The son of the founder of the town of Tatum. Abilene Reporter-News, June 24, 1958. As of 2019 much of the land surrounding the lake was in the permit area for the surface mining for lignite that covers thousands of acres. 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. endobj (Image credit: Pictorial Press Ltd./Alamy) British . Stories are how we interact as people and its how we grow. "You're a liability, Sebastian" Hendricks[src] Agent D. Hendricks is an FBI agent and the leader of Cras Est Nostrum. Overtime, Roper believes that this information was interpreted to mean that there was treasure in Hendricks Lake. As a young girl, Diana pushed the plunger to set off dynamite. In Texas, the Laffites founded a pirate colony named Campeche. 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. 5. Charles Fitzhugh Grice had the technology needed to find Spanish silver if the treasure was there. He maintains websites for Trammels Trace and for Hendricks Lake, as well as social media Facebook groups for both stories. Read More about The wreck of La Belle, 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? Published by the Texas State Historical Association. During her time at the Watchman, she enjoyed writing features about businesses and local events. Hotspots would include the many watercourses through the area and gravel arroyos northeast of Boise, near Idaho City. 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. 24 Lake Toplitz In Austria Is Believed To Hold The Lost Treasures From World War II. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents( \n h t t p s : / / s c h o l a r w o r k s . Just about every book written about Texas in that era mentioned it. As Laffite and his men raced through East Texas with the wagons, Spanish. Winds light and variable.. 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. accepts, and the show continues at Hendricks Lake in East Texas. Peoples commitment to myths, tall tales and legends is powerful, according to Pinkerton. On an 1863 map of the area, it was named Flanagan Lake but since the 1880s has been known by its present name. . When I was seven years old, we were at Athens Scuba Park owned by Calvin Wilcher and he was the one who told me the story, Roper explained.We were sitting in this dive store and Calvin just says, Hey, have you heard the story of pirate treasure in East Texas? At seven years old Im just going to find that extremely interesting. TYLER, Texas (KETK) Legends of buried treasure have fascinated people around the world since time immemorial. The Irish Crown Jewels, stolen from Dublin Castle over a century ago, are still out there for treasure-seekers to find today. By 1810, their successful smuggling operation had been supplemented with piracy. 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. An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. There was an error processing your request. "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 interest is in the people who have acted on their belief in the legend. A pharmacist. Despite this, no silver bars were found. The Lakeview Motel's name is false advertising these dry days. The search is called off for the time being. Spring is situated 3 miles northeast of Hendricks Lake. 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. 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. We organized some strategic searches via dives doing grid patterns and things of that sort to try to get those up.. Many of them are wandering through the beaches and backlands with nothing more than metal detectors. It certainly had promise since it was a round piece of wood, like the legend of the wagon sunk in the lake. Somewhere with access to treasure-laden vessels, open coast, and trails and waterways to transport stolen goods. One particularly famous legend is that of Jean Lafitte's treasure. At that time, the legend was that Mexican land pirates lived along the lake and dumped gold, silver, and precious stones in the lake when they were attacked by the Texans or some other forces. Tatum reportedly built a device with buckets on a conveyor and operated by steam engines to attempt to bail the water from the lake. The team, known as the "Temple Twelve," have been . The stories of treasure have been around for a long time, Pinkerton said. Spanish silver stolen by the privateer, Jean Lafitte. And if so is the treasure still there? 162 0 obj 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. Peter Walker Adams lived in one of the houses on the hill near the lake and figured prominently in many of the newspaper stories. They did their research and, with dredging equipment and electronics gear, made multiple trips to Hendricks Lake but had no success. So, he set up these steam engines and buckets on a conveyor belt and pumps. e d u / e t h j)/Rect[230.8867 249.8227 390.0566 261.5414]/StructParent 5/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> The people who believed the legend enough to pursue it were a diverse lot. Forrest Wilder writes about politics and the outdoors. One of Hendricks's biggest contributions was financing the excavation of Hawikku, an ancestral village in New Mexico, where the A:shiwi (Zuni) first made contact with Europeans. ingots were in transport, but the Spanish had set a trap. Legend says six wagons full of silver bars were rolled into hendricks lake. 153 0 obj True Believers: Treasure Hunters 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? They say this inspired them to reach out to other treasure hunters and hear their stories. Visibility is nil, so it is a touchy situation. Jean Laffite was a French pirate and privateer born circa 1780. No matter the evidence, they knew there were more ships filled with riches.. Having grown up hearing these stories about buried treasure and now searching for it himself, hes becoming a part of history. No matter the lack of proof for a lot of these things, it just makes sense in your mind for a story like this to take place here.. 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. Its hard to find any newspaper before that, but thats the first and oldest mention that I found of it, he said. They got away with three thousand freshly-minted 1877 $20 gold pieces. To make this film a reality, we are seeking donors to help us meet our minimum budget goal. Hutchinson Island. 2. 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. A huge battle ensued between the two groups near what is now known as Tyler. The show starts with the Lagina brothers, Rick and Marty, sharing how their search on Oak Island opened them up to a world full of mysteries and lost treasures to explore. Christian is not discouraged. Akins and one of his former deputies were landowners along the lake and active onlookers with a piece of the action. 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. 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. 146 23 In 1965, led a team of Iowans in some aborted, but ambitious, attempts at the treasure. Although hes fascinated by the legend and the excitement it created, Pinkerton doesnt believe its even a little bit true. 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). In 1925, W.E. The box was hidden by millionaire art dealer. The story revolves around oil fields in Texas, USA. 0000003902 00000 n Waldrop believed this man had many treasure secrets, but he was a well-known fraud. The location was later widely believed to be Hendricks Lake, an oxbow lake formation on the south side of the Sabine River. Markers are dropped, and divers are sent down. help him in his search. The tried to dynamite the bottom, but ended up with no silver for this efforts. Roper has been pursuing the legend and examining where and how the various parts of the story originated. 0000001730 00000 n Drained Lake Delhi Revealed Some Treasures: One scavenger found 50 antiques, three rings and an old radio in the mud of this lake in Iowa. One person who is still committed to the Hendricks Lake legend is Jacksonville documentary film maker and treasure hunter, Christian B. Roper. Excited about the history, research, and prospects of this Hendricks is an oxbow lake near where Rusk, Harrison, and Panola coun ties meet a few miles north ofTatum,Texas. Soldiers approach, wagons sunk in Hendricks Lake, an oxbow lake just south of the Sabine River in northeastern Rusk County. 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. If you change your mind, you can easily unsubscribe. 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. A nearby lake fed by the Sabine River also caught their attention, since the silver might have been transported there by the current. 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. 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. Believed the treasure was in Martin Creek after meeting old Mexicans with a map when he was just a boy. February 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn? Christian Roper and Brackston McKnight lay eyes on Hendricks Lake, the alleged locale of sunken pirate treasure. In one account, Pinkerton recalls doing research and finding a story about the son of the founder of Tatum. A light came on when the probe hit metal. At the end of World War II, the German Nazi's are believed to have sunk a fortune in Lake Toplitz, Austria, Daily Star reports. 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. 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. Sight was acquired & transformed back in 2018 by Anthony Bruno, founder of Anthony's Runway 84 & Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza along wit Daniel Vaughn is the countrys first barbecue editor, and he has eaten more barbecue than you have.
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