Ohio is rich in all things weird and wonderful, including buried treasure.
The following is not even scratching the surface. If you need any more ideas, let me know.
· The Bridge family pot of gold was buried near Eaton, PrebleCounty, in the early nineteenth century and has never been recovered.
· At Rockford, Mercer County, loot of bank robbers has been found, but more is believed to be in the area.
· In the 1780s the renegade Simon Girty and his brother had a trading post in the bend of the Maumee River on Hwy 24, about 7 miles from Defiance State Park, on Girty's Island. It is believed that they buried a number of caches of loot and treasure in the area before Girty was found a traitor and had to flee to Canada, leaving his caches behind.
· In the early 1800s Indians attacked a stagecoach on the northeast edge of Kingman Hill, south of Stratford and just south of the present Perkins Observatory site. All passengers were killed and the strongbox of gold was reported missing. The Indians had no use for gold and it is believed that it was buried or hidden somewhere in the vicinity of the attack.
· The old Geyer farm was located near Alton in the late 1800s. Geyer was highly secretive about his money, distrusting banks. He never told anyone, including his wife, where he hid his money. A hired hand killed him and the money remains on that property today.
· Treasure is believed hidden in the area of Perry's Den, 3 miles east of Cumberland, near Wills and Duck Creeks. The place was a hideout in the early 1800s for counterfeiters, horse thieves and outlaws.
· During the War of 1812 an army payroll was hidden near, or perhaps in, Fort Fridley just prior to an Indian raid and never recovered. The officer in charge of hiding the treasure was killed during the attack and the location was lost.
Mounds--a great source of relics, etc.
· One mound, known as the Great Hopewell Road, may have marked an ancient 60-mile highway stretching between Newark and Chillicothe in Ohio.
· The High Banks Works once circled 1,050 feet along the bank of the Scioto River, carefully aligned to the astronomical points of the 18.6-year lunar cycle. Only fragments of it remain.
· The Stubbs Earthworks, home of "Woodhenge" -- a temple consisting of a ring of perfectly spaced, 30-foot-high poles forming a circle 240 feet across -- is now covered by farmland and a recently constructed school.
· Serpent Mound, a still-visible 1,360-foot-long snake-shaped effigy dating from 1070 A.D., was once thought to be proof that the Garden of Eden was located in Ohio. The snake is so enormous that no one on the ground can see the entire structure. Its head points in the direction of the summer solstice sunset.
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