thefastship
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Does anyone have any information on the rumored buried pirate ship/Indian mounds near Century Florida? I have tried to find more information but have hit a brick wall. Below is all I can find. I will also include the link... Thanks Scott
Indians witnessed an old pirate craft fleeing from a Spanish patrol ship on Pensacola Bay, sailing up the flooded Escambia River in the vicinity of present-day Century. The pirates beached the ship and covered it with sand and rocks in the swamps about 1/2 mile W of the river. Following an old dry channel today, there is a mound nearly 30 feet high and 120 feet long, presumably the covered vessel. In a mound about 1/2 mile N of the ship mound is another mound where treasure is supposed to be buried.
State Treasures
Does anyone have any information on the rumored buried pirate ship/Indian mounds near Century Florida? I have tried to find more information but have hit a brick wall. Below is all I can find. I will also include the link... Thanks Scott
Indians witnessed an old pirate craft fleeing from a Spanish patrol ship on Pensacola Bay, sailing up the flooded Escambia River in the vicinity of present-day Century. The pirates beached the ship and covered it with sand and rocks in the swamps about 1/2 mile W of the river. Following an old dry channel today, there is a mound nearly 30 feet high and 120 feet long, presumably the covered vessel. In a mound about 1/2 mile N of the ship mound is another mound where treasure is supposed to be buried.
State Treasures