Barrels of english coins buried in Cross City area

[sabre15]

Ambrister came from Jacksonville area along with Arbuthnots clerk (peter Cook), I don't think he was involved with moving the goods, that was a letter sent from Arbuthnot to his son, I believe Ambrister handed out the hard goods to the negros and Indians to go to St Marks and free the fort. In tom terrys treasure atlas he says the 2 traders leaded for their lives and offered 8 kegs of gold and silver coins worth $100,000, said they are buried in high ground in california swamp, did they mean suwanee area or st marks area?

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[sabre15]

Here are some pictures from my Suwannee trip recently. If there was a trading post it has long been gone.






A PIRATE ASLEEP!

[Salvor6]

HEY MAN! I didn't know you took that! Heres a couple more: The first one is Hog Island Bluff. The second one is Sabre15 and our guide. If you want to visit these islands, contact Capt. Keith Brown at www.suwanneeguides.com. He is an excellent guide and very reasonable.

[sabre15]

Hey Pete, go and look at the cache hunting forum one, your pic with a better caption!

[ToyMan]

I have a MAP! dated 1818. Shows where Bowleg's Town was as well as some Negro Towns. All on the Suwanee. Below is some excerpts from that map. I'm not showing the Suwanee River but the whole map shows it.

[sabre15]

I found this map at one time, I will have to find it, if I remember right it does not add up to the layout of the area including the river.

[damonwatson]

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[damonwatson]

I just quickly read through the posts, and I haven't done the research, but there has always been a rumor that Baird found pirate money on fowlers bluff...but it could have been this money....Im sure he wouldnt be perticular...

this is one of the accounts that I found...

GAINESVILLE, FL – There is a tall tale, deep in the swamplands of Florida, along the banks of the Suwannee River near a place called Fowler's Bluff in Chiefland. There, it is said, pirate Jean Lafitte sailed up the river and deposited millions of dollars of his "earnings," burying three chests in the quicksands of the bank. It was this treasure that was reputed to have been found years later in 1897, when sawmill owner Emmet J. Baird – whose business was going through some rough times – tried his luck at finding one of the boxes.
Following a treasure map and instructions given to him by a fever-ridden old man on his deathbed, Baird gathered a small group of men and spent the next three months trying to raise the dead pirate's booty from the sunken ground. Whether or not he ever found what he was looking for has remained a mystery, a secret locked within Baird and his descendants, yet the rumors all point to his success:
• Baird's sudden disappearance, slipping away in the night
• A broken lock, found at the dig site by a former workman
• Baird's reappearance in Gainesville, where he opened the Standard Crate Company and
purchased what is now know as the Baird Mansion, a 5,400 square-foot, three-story Second French Empire-styled home built in 1886
• The sporadic appearance of old coins in the hands of the Baird family members
throughout the years.

Fact or fiction, the intriguing story found its way into a "Saturday Evening Post" article in 1945

[Mr.Jody]

Anyone ever heard oif this?--->TWIN TREASURE AT FOWLER'S BLUFF

[Mr.Jody]

I know he came to florida in 1803...

[bottlebum]

Fowlers Bluff They must have leveled it. It's just a boat ramp now.

[goldie1959]

I thought June Carter Cashs' family owned quite a bit of property in that area in the 50's thru the 80's. maybe the still do. lou.s momma and her husband ran a fishing charter out of old port richey and he fished with johnny cash every now and then in the 70's. lou said johnny told him maybelle owned alot of property on the suwannee river there. ck property records maybe you can get permission there .