And the story was basically, you wanna be the guy selling the metal detectors, you dont want to be the guy out there looking for (stuff) that doesnt exist. . One person who is still committed to the Hendricks Lake legend is Jacksonville documentary film maker and treasure hunter, Christian B. Roper. 5. Forrest Wilder writes about politics and the outdoors. Some fishermen in the last century pulled several silver bars from those very waters with a hoop net. Spring is situated 3 miles northeast of Hendricks Lake. 149 0 obj North of Tatum, in the middle of the woods, lies Hendricks Lake. To the north of Tatum, in the middle of the forest, lies Lake Hendrix. Since 2014, Rick and Marty Lagina have produced "The Curse of Oak Island" for The HISTORY Channel. They got away with three thousand freshly-minted 1877 $20 gold pieces. 0000003470 00000 n endobj HOUSTON It's the treasure hunt of a lifetime, and now it's landed them on national TV. They both were at the lake during the treasure hunts of 1957 and 1958. In 1915 in New Orleans a worker uncovered a chest filled with more than 1,500 doubloons . 4. A formal statement is due around noon in Moscow on Saturday when the first pictures of the gold will be revealed to the world's . Any "COB" finds in Texas I was just wondering if any member in Texas has found any cobs, reales, etc. Gary L. Pinkerton, Trammels Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016). During 1957 and 1958 the most significant attempts to locate the treasure took place at the lake. help him in his search. . We'll send you a couple of emails per month, filled with fascinating history facts that you can share with your friends. 155 0 obj Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake" but he is not a 'true believer' himself. The Irish Crown Jewels, stolen from Dublin Castle over a century ago, are still out there for treasure-seekers to find today. In 1884, the guy Tatum is named after thought he would drain the lake, Pinkerton said. I havent found anything to suggest that a centuries-worth of stories about buried treasure have any credence. 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. Gary Pinkerton, True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake, East Texas Historical Journal 47 (2009). 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. Singer Treasure on Padre Island In the mid-nineteenth century, a man named Isaac Merritt Singer made significant improvements to the sewing machine. 0000002542 00000 n 0000003902 00000 n For Roper, stories like these are more than a curiosity. That's . Building on that production they are airing a new 8-episode series titled "Beyond Oak Island" premiering Tuesday, November 17 at 9:00 pm central. It featured Pirate Treasures. 0000006665 00000 n <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents()/Rect[72.0 594.2333 124.3037 607.124]/StructParent 1/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> <>/MediaBox[0 0 612 792]/Parent 142 0 R/Resources<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/Tabs/S/Type/Page>> Cush Reeves. The story goes that wagon loads of silver 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. On his website, Fenn wrote, "It was under a. 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. Sight was acquired & transformed back in 2018 by Anthony Bruno, founder of Anthony's Runway 84 & Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza along wit Jos R. Ralat is Texas Monthlys taco editor, writing about tacos and Mexican food. In the 1950s, the Sabine River and the nearby lake (Hendricks Lake) experienced a new onslaught of treasure seekers when the story of Laffites silver was published by the True West magazine. In 2005, Agent Hendricks was a young FBI agent who was aware . Peoples commitment to myths, tall tales and legends is powerful, according to Pinkerton. endobj Historian Gary Pinkerton says the legend is mostly unsubstantiated. Societies are kind of defined by what they put their belief in and what they really want to be true. 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. Well, my beloved fellow Texas readers, though I have no idea whether anything Im about to pass on to you is the slightest bit accurate, here are six of the supposedly great Texas treasures still waiting to be found. His main focus is on Jean Lafittes treasure, In an interview with KETK, Pinkerton discussed the treasure, or lack thereof, at Hendricks Lake. 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. . %%EOF All Rights Reserved. The people who have looked for Hendricks Lake treasure since the 50s have spent a lot of money and hired a researcher in Spain to see if the Santa Rosa actually existed, all kinds of things, Pinkerton said. The Secret: Location of the Treasure in Lake Park, Milwaukee Mark Heffron 35 subscribers Subscribe 5.6K views 2 years ago In this video I reveal the location of the treasure in Lake Park,. Download Free PDF. A light came on when the probe hit metal. Hendricks is an oxbow lake near where Rusk, Harrison, and Panola coun ties meet a few miles north ofTatum,Texas. This is the list to receive occasional emails containing special offers, deals and promotions (like contests). So, he set up these steam engines and buckets on a conveyor belt and pumps. The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry. A semi-weekly newsletter with all of The Panola Watchman's sports coverage. Every penny counts! Fire Ants Have Unleashed Chaos in Texas for Decades. 0000043284 00000 n During her time at the Watchman, she enjoyed writing features about businesses and local events. Even though some, including Waldrop and Stotlar, had looked into draining the lake, there were no other attempts at that folly. Jean Laffite was a French pirate and privateer born circa 1780. In the early 1800s, Stephen F. Austin, on his first trip to Texas, also heard about a rich silver mine on the San Saba River and a gold mine on the Llano. Its got quite a long story in the community. But alas, nothing came of it. In 1965, led a team of Iowans in some aborted, but ambitious, attempts at the treasure. Most of the cobs or old Spanish finds I've seen on the forum are either from Florida or the Upper East Cost. In Gretna in 1960, across the river from New Orleans, a large number of gold coins were found in an area frequented by Lafitte and his men .According to another story, Laffite buried a large cache on an unnamed island in Lake Borgne. ingots were in transport, but the Spanish had set a trap. At the age of 25, Jean Laffite was living in New Orleans, operating a warehouse essential to dispersing the goods smuggled by his brother Pierre. they might find something, a storm rolls in. It was packed with tons of gold and silver. Read More about Jean Laffites treasure in the Sabine River, USS Hatteras (formerly St. Mary) was a 1,126-ton steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the early part of the American Civil War. Having grown up hearing these stories about buried treasure and now searching for it himself, hes becoming a part of history. Christian knows his pirate history! 0000004315 00000 n click photo for more. According to a story by Mary Roger of the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the silver was indeed robbed from a galleon by Laffite and his mean in the early 19th century. Peter Walker Adams lived in one of the houses on the hill near the lake and figured prominently in many of the newspaper stories. When they returned after the war, Singer could no longer find Money Hill because the sands had shifted and erased all the landmarks that he once knew. The area served as a naval base during the war, and the publication notes that when the Allied forces were approaching, the Nazi's began sinking treasures in metal boxes in the lake . Hendricks Lake, 146 0 obj Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) Beyond Oak Island Summary of Episode 1: Pirate Treasures and the Search in Hendricks Lake for Jean Lafittes Lost Treasure. Now, two years later, in his book, "True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake," he has given new life to a legend about hidden silver that developed alongside Trammel's Trace. The crescent-shaped lake is less than a mile long, thirty to fifty yards wide, and twelve to forty feet deep. In 1912 it was like a big resort, come out and fish and real flowery language (in advertisements).. His book, True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake, focused on the variety of people and their attempts to discover the fabled hidden silver and was released this past April. By The Siberian Times reporter. The Lost Padre Mine Somewhere in the Franklin Mountains overlooking the Rio Grande River in El Paso County is the Lost Padre Mine. Legends live on! Its just a great story and what intrigued me was the people engaged in that all over those 100 years.. Is there anything better than the tale of someone discovering a hidden clue, figuring out an obscure reference, finding the final piece of the puzzle, and then discovering a fantastic stash of gold or silver? 0000000016 00000 n The total value? If you fill out the first name, last name, or agree to terms fields, you will NOT be added to the newsletter list. Captain Blackbeard's Lost Silver, said to be $1.5 million worth of silver bars. To view perks for contributors or to make a donation towards completion of the film, visit www.gofundme.com/sunkensilver. ]9xd@% ilIA):cOr+}fJg-|o)!6ns+"6nsj[R JMr}bz b)N$PvfeY%Gc Za}J8420sw*b96z>r$J54a 75U,Y{hw!C'9i?| P[Zvh]|bNb7hRAbTi#n'M{ Christian B. Roper on a scouting trip for his film . The divers do feel some round objects, and a piece is In 1884, Tatum clubbed a man to death who made light of his attempts to drain Hendricks Lake. Legend holds that the Pirate Jean LaFitte, or in some other versions Santa Anna, left treasure at Hendricks Lake near Tatum. Low 47F. The Lost San Saba Silver Mine This lost mine, with its rich vein of silver, has been what one treasure hunter writer has called the Holy Grail of Texas treasure seekers. In 1756 a Mexican official traveling through Texas learned from Indians of an exposed strain of pure silver that ran through a certain hill in Central Texas. The Sam Bass Loot In perhaps his greatest venture, Texass legendary stagecoach and bank robber Sam Bass traveled to Big Springs, Nebraska, with his sidekick Joel Collins and held up the Union Pacific Railroad. This same engineer, only two years earlier, had led the team who located the Tecumseh, a Union metalclad ship sunk during the battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864. endobj click photo for more. Barnie was a TV repair man, and he had built this underwater metal detector, like the size of a washing machine. He initially doesn't release any details on the finder or location. Thats the one thing we all agree on about Sunken Silver, is that legend is a very powerful thing.. What they would love to find, if not the silver, are clues to the treasure at least being there. Mainly clear. Hotspots would include the many watercourses through the area and gravel arroyos northeast of Boise, near Idaho City. Soldiers approach, wagons sunk in Hendricks Lake, an oxbow lake just south of the Sabine River in northeastern Rusk County. Filmmaker Brackston McKnight uses a metal detector on his property, searching for lost treasure. So nothing lines up; its just factually, there was no road that would carry wagons at that time. In attempting to honor what he perceives to be Fenn's wishes . Host Mattie Blake and local movie maker Christian B. Roper (see Sunken Silver) led a team conducting underwater searching. click photo for more. 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. Its no surprise that East Texas has local tales of buried treasure. 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? The ships turned out to be heavily armed privateers and they mounted a frontal counterattack that included heavy fire. 2. And an MIT-trained electrical engineer who held a patent for underwater metal detection. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(Tell us)/Rect[72.0 211.9047 103.6572 224.7953]/StructParent 7/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> None of (the rest) lines up, but 1860s, 1870s, there was enough yada yada to create some story.. 0000001207 00000 n We report on vital issues from politics to education and are the indispensable authority on the Texas scene, covering everything from music to cultural events with insightful recommendations. by the Rieseberg article had gone home with no treasure to On Monday, June 16th, 1958 Barney For information on, or to order True Believers, visit www.hendrickslake.com. Maybe they can help them in their search from the insights learned from their own pursuit of the Money Pit. endobj This is just the beginning! Eventually, the Mexicans unloaded the moneygold and silver coinsso they could make an escape. After sitting undisturbed for more than 10 years, a treasure chest holding gold nuggets and precious gems has been found in the Rocky Mountains. 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? Angie Hendricks has been a dedicated RE/MAX Realtor for more than a decade, who offers attention to detail in every real estate transaction she handles. hb```E@9Z9:sj*5)o(Hd`8iQ^gFMJNvZ7he);Ndx8uy}xc;Mt0u410[t0v4t40t40Zt00L@,E@`E,AsE^X/q5tDX4C#{ See the BLOG here for more details. For more information about this incredible project and to see a short film trailer, go to their website at www.sunkensilver.com. The tale basically states Galveston-based pirate Jean Laffite, in the year 1816, plundered a Spanish ship named the Santa Rosa. 3 talking about this. 0 This catch rendered a lot of attention and by 1884, the Sabine River was riddled with silver hunters. He bought some steam engines and pumps, had a months worth of logs to keep the steam engines going and was gonna drain the lake. In a location on the lake, matching the tale, with a sloped And soldiers were overtaking them, so they had six wagon loads full of gold and silver they dumped it in the lake. "I do not know the person who found it, but the poem in my book led him to the precise spot," Fenn writes. Stella Wieser of the Panola Watchman. They know its there. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents( \n h t t p s : / / s c h o l a r w o r k s . 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 That historic trail passed just to the east of the lake, with the trail making up two-thirds of the boundary between Rusk and Panola counties. A huge battle ensued between the two groups near what is now known as Tyler. Six wagon loads of silver carried north along Trammels Trace. Now, more modern equipment was available, and one man used a metal detector and managed to get some interesting readings from the bottom of the lake. Barnie Waldrop and the former Sheriff of Panola County, Corbett Akins, at the time were in an article on the first page of the Wall Street Journal. There is a legend surrounding a supposed lost treasure in East Texas, one that filmmaker Christian B. Roper and his team have been researching for a documentary production, Sunken Silver. He is the primary antagonist of season one of National Treasure: Edge of History. Houston oil men began a search for Spanish silver-thelegendary treasure of Hendricks Lake.! <<83DDF97377B4B2110A0000A4D0C2FC7F>]/Prev 639425>> A dirt contractor who learned about the legend when helping another man drill holes on the edge of the lake. George Mallory's lost camera. That set off a huge treasure hunting stampede. He shows Rick and Marty the 1957 Little Cypress Creek, north of Gilmer, is the site where legend says a cache of Mexican coinage was dumped, according to A Brief History of Upshur County a history book published in 1946. Snavely of Taylor, who had hunted treasure for 60 years, found a ruby arrowhead weighing 15 karats, along with many other gemstones. <>stream including dialogue . 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.. swieser@panolawatchman.com, Stolen treasure, hidden mystery: Tatum-area lake lore focus of movie project. And he says, Treasure has a way of keeping its secrets. a must to have. . 1``b`5 Y0$ Au`j`H@ In 1965 a professional syndicate of treasure hunters, men who worked together at a packaging company in LeClaire, Iowa, and led by Clarence A. 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. Before I started to work on the story running in the July 2009 issue (Sleeping Booty) about California musician Nathan Smiths quixotic attempt to find a lost Spanish treasure ship near the town of Refugio, north of Corpus Christi, I assumed that there was no buried treasure at all in Texas. Pinkerton. In the 1880s through the 1970s East Texas was, in most parts, very poor, very rural and it gave people something to believe in, it gave them their attachment to the beyond,. An occasional newspaper article kept the story alive and throughout the 1960s treasure hunters found their way to Hendrick's Lake, but none matched the expeditions launched by the SoRelle . Waldrop believed this man had many treasure secrets, but he was a well-known fraud. Xi-vrcjVJO%X *hve~os)&pZl0nuUH;M%\,iB!N7;B`h Y2?SXx#l};(5-Sj\Ji6Y|f>>`}j8 C=H: =.p0=*y pGOF30.#yZeY92Hq{IjFhaftP[Ch[&P"(D3CSP+ )Q- $NNBeX"Ld_kUB'`Y%e8re%R 0aHd$0=~^nbY:pK/DQxE8"Sh5Y=9'wXJ9'.m*?%YTAcM>W*N7852@ZyV|>}c(&fZXBtzq]uF4A1*i endobj A.C. SoRelle, Jr., and his brother, Henry, were oilmen who brought detection equipment, draglines, and other heavy machinery to dig into the gumbo mud on the bottom of the lake. 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. Hendricks Lake 0000010052 00000 n In 2018, we decided to renew the legend with some information of our own. Its hard to find any newspaper before that, but thats the first and oldest mention that I found of it, he said. On the trail of East Texas' buried treasure news - The Black Chronicle Buried, EAST, Texas, texas news, texas news update, trail, Treasure Although hes fascinated by the legend and the excitement it created, Pinkerton doesnt believe its even a little bit true. But people buy into it, and thats the part thats interesting to me.. 0000017195 00000 n Although it hasnt yet been decided if the film will first be released at festivals and then to the public, Sunken Silver will eventually be available through online streaming. 0000001730 00000 n It was found approximately a decade later in 2020 in Wyoming by an anonymous treasure hunter later revealed to be former journalist and medical student Jack Stuef. endstream The stories of treasure have been around for a long time, Pinkerton said. Spring is a census-designated place within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States, part of the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area. The location was later widely believed to be Hendricks Lake, an oxbow lake formation on the south side of the Sabine River. Click here to start your Free Trial (no credit card required), by Michelle Dillon michelle@thecherokeean.com. Fearing an ambush by Native Americans, they then decided to hide the treasure by pushing it into the muddy waters of the Sabine River. Texas Lege Watch: A House Republican Fights for Chicken Freedom, Texas Monthly Recognized by ASME in the 2023 National Magazine Awards. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(cdsscholarworks@sfasu.edu)/Rect[183.5112 72.3516 299.2412 82.8984]/StructParent 10/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> In one account, Pinkerton recalls doing research and finding a story about the son of the founder of Tatum. There are still treasure hunters to this day who believe the Lafitte fortune would be found if the lake was drained. Adams was a Rusk County backwoodsman who wears an old slouch felt hat, bib overalls, and a denim jacket, buttoned at the throat even in hot weather, and a favorite character of columnist Frank X. Tolbert for many of his Tolberts Texas articles over the years. 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. Ive actually been at this project about 14 months now. CNN As soon as Forrest Fenn announced that his treasure was found earlier this month, rumors swirled about whether it had really been found or if the treasure hunt had been a hoax all. His body was buried at sea in the Gulf of Honduras. We need your support because we are a non-profit organization that relies upon contributions from our community in order to record and preserve the history of our state. From the first searches in the 1880s to the large scale efforts of the 1950s and 1960s, its story has . On an 1863 map of the area, it was named Flanagan Lake but since the 1880s has been known by its present name. The enduring story of Hendricks Lake is a treasure legend that has been around for more than 150 years. Seagoville pharmacist who was the diver that planted dynamite on the bottom of Hendricks Lake. Well, according to a story by Mary Rogers of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, there is evidence that in the early 1800s the theft did happen and that Jean Lafittes men, afraid that they were about to be ambushed, pushed several wagons loaded with silver ingots into the muddy waters. The tried to dynamite the bottom, but ended up with no silver for this efforts. Roper believes that the Little Cypress Creek story and the Hendricks Lake story may have a common heritage. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents()/Rect[493.2393 594.2333 540.0 607.124]/StructParent 3/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> At times the story stayed in circulation due to the efforts of Harry E. Rieseberg, a man who was the self-proclaimed '"worlds greatest underwater treasure hunter.. It was a cloudy evening with low visibility, and Laffite attempted to capture what appeared to be two Spanish merchant vessels. 159 0 obj https://www.tshaonline.org, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/hendricks-lake. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(www.easttexashistorical.org)/Rect[308.5376 282.2367 447.0903 295.1273]/StructParent 4/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> %PDF-1.7 % The first episode premiered on Tuesday November 17 at 10PM EST on the History Channel. The story was reporting the fact that Tatum beat a man to death who essentially made fun of that effort, Pinkerton said. endobj brought up to the surface. In the early 1820s, Great Colombia under the government of Simon Bolivar had begun commissioning former privateers as officers in their newly formed navy. "You're a liability, Sebastian" Hendricks[src] Agent D. Hendricks is an FBI agent and the leader of Cras Est Nostrum. His website is www.trammelstrace.com. 162 0 obj Pinkerton came across the Hendricks Lake legend while doing research for his book, Trammals Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North. The story died down but regained momentum when treasure hunting became popular again in the fifties and when True West magazine printed an article about the long-forgotten silver prompting treasure hunters to flock to Carthage and Tatum. Sheriff of Carthage, who co-owned 470 acres on the northwest end of the lake with Corbett Akins. The land was sold sometime in the last 20 years and is now within a restricted mining area. Blackbeard and the mysterious unsolved code of Olivier Levassuer, or The Buzzard, are mentioned. It certainly had promise since it was a round piece of wood, like the legend of the wagon sunk in the lake. The self-proclaimed worlds greatest underwater treasure hunter wrote several articles about Hendricks Lake for pulp magazines of the 50s and 60s.
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