cheese
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Well, at this rate, I'll have more leads than I can ever follow up on in a month's time!
I went to a wildlife dinner tonight (lots of wild game to eat...bear, deer, elk, caribou, moose, antelope, gator, etc...) and talked to a guy I've know for a while but never got into the dtetcting topic with him. Whe I mentioned detecting, he told me about 2 old homesites on his property, and better yet, another treasure story.
He told me that a couple hundred years ago some plague (bubonic or black I think) ran rampant in New Orleans. He said several well-to-do people grouped up and formed a wagon train to flee the plague, heading to savanna Georgia. One man in the bunch had dissentary. He said they came to this area of the state and set up camp one night. They buried the treasure they were carrying built the camp fire over it. The man with dissentary went into the woods to do his "business". While he was there, indians attacked the group. He hid in the woods during the attack. The indians killed them all, and ransacked the wagons, but never found the treasure. With no horses left, and no means to carry or protect the treasure, he made his way to savannah. When he got there, he told his story and gave an approximation of where the treasure was buried. Searchers never found it. The approximate area of burial is right here in my county, and the man who told me the story said he knows where the old road was...in fact it runs through his property. WOW!
I gotta find time to follow up on this stuff! Any ideas on where to gather more info on this stuff? How could I find out who fled new orleans to savannah to escape the plague? (to verify the factuality of the story in the first place). I don't mind telling this much here, and anyone interested in helping me research and find this treasure if it exists is welcome.
I went to a wildlife dinner tonight (lots of wild game to eat...bear, deer, elk, caribou, moose, antelope, gator, etc...) and talked to a guy I've know for a while but never got into the dtetcting topic with him. Whe I mentioned detecting, he told me about 2 old homesites on his property, and better yet, another treasure story.
He told me that a couple hundred years ago some plague (bubonic or black I think) ran rampant in New Orleans. He said several well-to-do people grouped up and formed a wagon train to flee the plague, heading to savanna Georgia. One man in the bunch had dissentary. He said they came to this area of the state and set up camp one night. They buried the treasure they were carrying built the camp fire over it. The man with dissentary went into the woods to do his "business". While he was there, indians attacked the group. He hid in the woods during the attack. The indians killed them all, and ransacked the wagons, but never found the treasure. With no horses left, and no means to carry or protect the treasure, he made his way to savannah. When he got there, he told his story and gave an approximation of where the treasure was buried. Searchers never found it. The approximate area of burial is right here in my county, and the man who told me the story said he knows where the old road was...in fact it runs through his property. WOW!
I gotta find time to follow up on this stuff! Any ideas on where to gather more info on this stuff? How could I find out who fled new orleans to savannah to escape the plague? (to verify the factuality of the story in the first place). I don't mind telling this much here, and anyone interested in helping me research and find this treasure if it exists is welcome.
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