Texas is full of buried bootyor, to be a bit more accurate, full of stories about buried booty that no one has been able to find. In 2005, Agent Hendricks was a young FBI agent who was aware . Societies are kind of defined by what they put their belief in and what they really want to be true. Kuna, ID hosted by Treasure Valley Disc Golf. The Lost Treasure of Hendricks Lake The infamous pirate of the Gulf Jean Lafitte took a $2 million fortune in silver from a Spanish galleon and supposedly buried it in the Sabine River near the East Texas town of Sabine. Christian B. Roper on a scouting trip for his film . Some tough local lawmen. The story goes that wagon loads of silver 152 0 obj Since that time, many parties and individuals have endeavored to find the Lost Treasure of Hendricks Lake, with searches as early as 1884 and as recently as the 1970s. By 1829, the mythical lost silver mine of San Saba began appearing on Austins maps of Texas. Their father, Barnie Waldrop, was the most active local treasure hunter. Jos R. Ralat is Texas Monthlys taco editor, writing about tacos and Mexican food. The lake is located in the extreme northeastern part of the county along the boundary between Rusk and Panola. Hendericks was a member of the Cras Est Nostrum and became Salazar at some point in the past. Houston oil men began a search for Spanish silver-thelegendary treasure of Hendricks Lake.! A famous actress said, Legend remains victorious in spite of history. For this one to last over 150 years, the grains of truth have firmly resisted erosion by the progress of historical research and inspection. The self-proclaimed worlds greatest underwater treasure hunter wrote several articles about Hendricks Lake for pulp magazines of the 50s and 60s. He also noted there were a handful of other treasure legends that were nearly the same but with a different location or body of water and no specific piece of evidence regarding the Hendricks Lake silver on which he can hang his hat., When asked what he hopes Sunken Silver will accomplish, he answered just to tell the story.. MW Questions: Are Keywords for the Null Cipher Used in The Great US Treasure Hunt? 30 April 2021 AFP It is one of Sweden's most spectacular Bronze Age finds A man surveying a forest for his orienteering club in western Sweden stumbled on a trove of Bronze Age treasure reckoned. One particularly famous legend is that of Jean Lafitte's treasure. In 1909 members of the United States Geological Survey visited the site, which they described as being unproductive. Secret stash of tsar's gold worth billions found in old rail tunnel near Lake Baikal. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular articles. Palm City. He gave the loot to smugglers who were attempting to transport six wagonloads of silver ingots to St. Louis where the treasure would presumably be minted into coins. Royal discovery made after 99-year-old code is broken by Siberian mathematics genius. Roper is the latest in a long line of people to search for treasure in Hendricks Lake, and hes using the latest technology and techniques to do it. Roper himself had first heard the legend when he was a young boy and has returned to it intermittently throughout his life. My favorite part of the legend is that the Guadalupe Mission in El Paso was built in way so that the shadows of the mission point to the Lost Padre Mine. Christian is not discouraged. A heating and air conditioning contractor. As a former channel of the Sabine, Hendricks Lake is fed intermittently by Black Slough and by seasonal overflow from both Cherokee Bayou and the Sabine River. After getting some readings at the bottom of the lake (Hendricks Lake), two Dallas oilmen actually brought in a giant crane and attached a drag bucket to the cable. 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? https://www.tshaonline.org, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/hendricks-lake. Both were the surnames of early settlers in the vicinity. There are people who spend their whole lives and considerable sums of money searching for sunken treasure ships, lost mines, and hidden loot. 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 stolen loot was smuggled north some years later but ended up in Lake. PRIME turn-key restaurant is a landmark of Fort Laud(Former Ernie's BBQ). A TV repairman. 1930, it came up again, 35. True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake. There was no treasure found. Legend remains victorious in spite of history and it just attests to the power that legends have over people when the facts may not necessarily support something, Pinkerton said. I dont want to give too much away, but part of the reason that Hendricks Lake may have been incorrectly added to the story is because, I believe, in the late 1830s there may have been something found on a property owned by a man with the last name OHendrick, Roper said. endobj 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. 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. 0000001390 00000 n Having grown up hearing these stories about buried treasure and now searching for it himself, hes becoming a part of history. A man named Nathan Smith thinks he's found the remnants of a sunken ship from an 1822 hurricane north of Corpus Christi - thanks to Google Earth. So nothing lines up; its just factually, there was no road that would carry wagons at that time. It lies along the historic route of Trammels Trace, only one and one-quarter miles south of the location of Ramsdales Crossing/Ferry (Rocky Ford) on the Sabine River. The location was later widely believed to be Hendricks Lake, an oxbow lake formation on the south side of the Sabine River. As Laffite and his men raced through East Texas with the wagons, Spanish. According to reports, the total bounty would be worth more than $1.36 million today. Contacts. He is the primary antagonist of season one of National Treasure: Edge of History. 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. So where is it? East Texas Gold From Mexico In 1839 Mirabeau B. Lamar, the newly inaugurated successor to Sam Houston as President of Texas, sent the Texas Army out to get rid of the Cherokees. Tales of pirate booty and Mexican gold have captivated minds for generations, and it all could be closer than you might think. An estimated $340 million., And as I write, the treasure hunters are out there, hunting, hunting, and hunting. There will be people still in town who will remember Barnie Waldrop, Pinkerton said. Whats Up With All the Kangaroos on the Loose in Texas? Two years later, its researchers went on a mapping expedition with the . The story was reporting the fact that Tatum beat a man to death who essentially made fun of that effort, Pinkerton said. More than once the crane almost toppled into the water. Hughes Springs up in Cass County was founded by two brothers looking for a treasure in the 1850s or 60s. During the Mexican War of Independence, the Laffites served as spies for the Spanish, after moving to Galveston Island, Texas. The last. :P1N8ihB:Ap"4qau_-6)aqhcgZ!=(!~qB3&\S%I}Dc{M6H31jiet_Ya dZ`URw#ser6QcS$JJrnlHN_f1`>!nUA{:_>vtZ)F+/z#~+PDG-+\X?U89XfDD\%E%R! b#[\Z}%dw2Q cDDp=_Em&>M!$]5yors8%52]Tp%>E]SV)IW%]Ka("Y4'7QuFf$a 168 0 obj Sheriff of Carthage, who co-owned 470 acres on the northwest end of the lake with Corbett Akins. There are two legends in particular that seem to have found purchase in the minds of East Texas treasure hunters. 5. Fire Ants Have Unleashed Chaos in Texas for Decades. 0000017011 00000 n endobj A team of treasure hunters could be on the verge of unearthing the "world's largest treasure hoard," said to be worth over $20 billion. Ho-hum, right? 0000017195 00000 n Peter Walker Adams lived in one of the houses on the hill near the lake and figured prominently in many of the newspaper stories. It was a cloudy evening with low visibility, and Laffite attempted to capture what appeared to be two Spanish merchant vessels. Daniel Vaughn is the countrys first barbecue editor, and he has eaten more barbecue than you have. In the 1950s, the Sabine River and the nearby lake (Hendrick's Lake) experienced a new onslaught of treasure seekers when the story of Laffite's silver was published by the True West magazine. Many believe the body of water concealing the silver to be Hendricks Lake near Tatum, although other places have also been examined. This is just the beginning! 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. 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. 0000002763 00000 n endstream Handbook of Texas Online, When I was seven years old, we were at Athens Scuba Park owned by Calvin Wilcher and he was the one who told me the story, Roper explained.We were sitting in this dive store and Calvin just says, Hey, have you heard the story of pirate treasure in East Texas? At seven years old Im just going to find that extremely interesting. Click here to start your Free Trial (no credit card required), by Michelle Dillon michelle@thecherokeean.com. The legend has taken many twists over the years. And then again, the 50s and 60s, there were a bunch of these treasure magazines about metal detectors. When a producer for The History Channel contacted me in early summer, the legend was about to add a new chapter to the story.The Lagina brothers of Oak Island fame were beginning a new series, Beyond Oak Island, and the story of Hendricks Lake was the premiere episode on November 17, 2020. The tale basically states Galveston-based pirate Jean Laffite, in the year 1816, plundered a Spanish ship named the Santa Rosa. They got away with three thousand freshly-minted 1877 $20 gold pieces. Photo: WhisperToMe, Public domain. In 1925, W.E. 158 0 obj They know it. Believed the treasure was in Martin Creek after meeting old Mexicans with a map when he was just a boy. 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. Texas Lege Watch: A House Republican Fights for Chicken Freedom, Texas Monthly Recognized by ASME in the 2023 National Magazine Awards. 156 0 obj startxref 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. As a backup plan, they would supply all adjacent markets with fresh fish on ice. The Galveston Daily News made light of the effort by suggesting they move their operation to the Gulf of Mexico since a good deal of wealth has been left under its waters by shipwrecks. A week after that humiliation, Paul Tatum clubbed a man to death after he made fun of Tatums attempt to drain the lake. As of May 2022, she resides in Austin and does media relations for TCEQ. It was packed with tons of gold and silver. January 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn? The son of the founder of the town of Tatum. So, he set up these steam engines and buckets on a conveyor belt and pumps. In Texas, the Laffites founded a pirate colony named Campeche. What they would love to find, if not the silver, are clues to the treasure at least being there. According to one legend, a group of priests put about three hundred burro loads of silver in a mine on one of their expeditions to New Mexico. down. 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. 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. endobj March 11 Saturday Daylight Wasting C-tier . . ingots were in transport, but the Spanish had set a trap. . IXK\!%X[CQq tfI&JA PAefQj$9k,HmN}) n1jXb#,L5N_T U7VOn'u[^cW c{*`!+?@6rJQ|n ;fr4a}_OM%)t0 HUn>>IudFn _IXEvFmoj8!~X!HL: Continue Reading. The July 17, 1958 edition of the Panola Watchman includes this update on a search for Jean LaFittes treasure at Hendricks Lake near Tatum. 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 . Pictured from left, Gary Pinkerton, Brackson McKnight and Christian Roper. It featured Pirate Treasures. TATUM A trio of Jacksonville natives wants to turn two-century-old piracy legend into a full-length feature documentary film and theyre seeking funding help to do it. 0000003684 00000 n <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(Tell us)/Rect[72.0 211.9047 103.6572 224.7953]/StructParent 7/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> Texas oilmen who later drilled an oil well based on scripture. Laffite was wounded in the battle and is believed to have died just after dawn. :icon_scratch: Thanks, Ernie The various people that searched for the Hendricks Lake treasure hooked him. Patricia Sharpe writes a regular restaurant column, Pats Pick, for Texas Monthly. The team, known as the "Temple Twelve," have been . Barnie Waldrop. Off the shores of Nova Scotia is Oak Island, a place where unimaginable riches (or absolutely nothing) can supposedly be found at the bottom of a money pit that has eluded treasure seekers for centuries.Originally, the money pit was found in 1795 by a teenager named Daniel McGinnis who claimed he saw mysterious lights coming from the island, and upon investigating, found a small circular hole . a must to have. In attempting to honor what he perceives to be Fenn's wishes . The team has found several people who have direct . 24 Lake Toplitz In Austria Is Believed To Hold The Lost Treasures From World War II. Both American coasts abound with tales of buried pirate treasure. The other big buried treasure legend from East Texas is the story of Little Cypress Creek. e d u / e t h j / v o l 4 7 / i s s 2 / 1 0)/Rect[128.1963 131.7406 353.4453 143.4594]/StructParent 9/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> Pinkerton went on to describe how there have been dozens of expeditions and attempts to find buried treasure between Hendricks Lake and the Sabine River. though. By 1810, their successful smuggling operation had been supplemented with piracy. And an MIT-trained electrical engineer who held a patent for underwater metal detection. 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. James Bowie went on an expedition to find it. <> "You're a liability, Sebastian" Hendricks[src] Agent D. Hendricks is an FBI agent and the leader of Cras Est Nostrum. endobj He built a new kind of sewing machine, and in 1851 he started I.M. 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. Calvin Wilcher is in charge of the scans..he is on watch for something not of Mother nature. Only recently did I learn of a parallel effort to tell the story of the Hendricks Lake treasure legend via film. 2. hill on the Lakes side, the scans show some promising images. After years of searching, Roper is still optimistic, and he said that his commitment to Hendricks Lake will still be there no matter what he finds. Ocean Breeze. (All you English teachers out there, stop making fun of me for using the what is now known as phrase two sentences in a row.) His interest is in the people who have acted on their belief in the legend. Legend says six wagons full of silver bars were rolled into hendricks lake. %PDF-1.7 % Or Black Lake. 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. 4. It led all the way back to an 1884 account where the guy who was the son of the founder of Tatum, Texas in East Texas decided he was going to drain the lake. wATCH THE EPISODE HERE. What I like most about the lake is that, it just contains this feel when you go out there and you see the Spanish moss hanging on the trees, you feel like youve gone back in time, Roper said. Alternate versions of that story have been documented since the 1880s, with variations including that the silver was from Santa Anna and the battle of San Jacinto and that the treasure was in a different location nearby. He was now legally authorized by Great Colombia to take Spanish ships. If you change your mind, you can easily unsubscribe. 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 first episode premiered on Tuesday November 17 at 10PM EST on the History Channel. click photo for more. Leave them blank to get signed up. Gary Pinkerton, True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake, East Texas Historical Journal 47 (2009). endobj Roper believes that the Little Cypress Creek story and the Hendricks Lake story may have a common heritage. May the hunters strike gold. North of Tatum, in the middle of the woods, lies Hendricks Lake. 1``b`5 Y0$ Au`j`H@ Over the years, Hendricks Lake near Tatum has been a place where many people have visited in search of a legendary treasure that was supposedly left at the site by Pirate Jean LaFitte. They are convinced that booty galore is waiting to be found, J. Barto Arnold, the former marine archaeologist for the Texas Historical Commission, told me. Spanish troops caught up with the wagons along a trail near present-day Tatum, Texas. This caused the The parade of those who made documented efforts for the treasure included oilmen, a television repairman, a pharmacist, a grocery store owner, dirt contractors, water well diggers, fraudulent treasure hunting equipment hucksters, a heating and air-conditioning technician, and numerous other true believers. Searchers used aerial photos, underwater metal detectors, and magnetometers to aid in their efforts. . from oil explorers and water witchers to plain nuts.. 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. 0000000756 00000 n Pinkerton had to get special permission to visit for research and to take pictures. accepts, and the show continues at Hendricks Lake in East Texas. During the investigation, Roper found Gary Pinkertons book, We met with Gary in January and we had no clue about his book coming out, we just knew that he was kind of the expert on this trace, this route that had been taken in the story by this group of smugglers carrying all the silver, Roper said. As they retreated, they headed into what is now known as Upshur County. TREASURE HUNTER CLAIMS FBI IS COVERING UP DISCOVERY OF CIVIL WAR-ERA GOLD WORTH MILLIONS "The two vessels separated after the impact, both fatally damaged. Charles Fitzhugh Grice had the technology needed to find Spanish silver if the treasure was there. We had not even known that he had heard of the treasure. "I do not know the person who found it, but the poem in my book led him to the precise spot," Fenn writes. 0000004315 00000 n One person who is still committed to the Hendricks Lake legend is Jacksonville documentary film maker and treasure hunter, Christian B. Roper. 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. Blackbeard and the mysterious unsolved code of Olivier Levassuer, or The Buzzard, are mentioned. 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. A Seagoville pharmacist who sailed around the world. And soldiers were overtaking them, so they had six wagon loads full of gold and silver they dumped it in the lake. Singer Treasure on Padre Island In the mid-nineteenth century, a man named Isaac Merritt Singer made significant improvements to the sewing machine. 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. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(www.easttexashistorical.org)/Rect[308.5376 282.2367 447.0903 295.1273]/StructParent 4/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> To the north of Tatum, in the middle of the forest, lies Lake Hendrix. Christian knows his pirate history! The legend says that in 1816, Laffite and his fellow pirates plundered six wagon loads worth of silver from the Spanish. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents()/Rect[493.2393 594.2333 540.0 607.124]/StructParent 3/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> The Cherokees started getting their butts kicked. But they got nothing. According to Swanger, the treasure was hidden beneath a dead tree at a place called Heughs Canyon Trail, at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Utah. click photo for more. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(United States History Commons)/Rect[137.2383 228.9906 279.5625 240.7094]/StructParent 6/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> . Hendricks Lake, once a commonly-frequented lake both for recreation and treasure hunting, is no longer accessible to the public. endobj The Lakeview Motel's name is false advertising these dry days. 149 0 obj But people buy into it, and thats the part thats interesting to me.. A few of the Cherokees were accompanied by agents of the Mexican government who had promised a lot of money to the tribe if they were able to drive out the Texans. We'll send you a couple of emails per month, filled with fascinating history facts that you can share with your friends. We met with Gary and it was very strange because he was working on this book at the same time we were working on this film and it had been decades since anyone had ever shown any interest in Hendricks Lake.. 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. Fort Worth Daily Gazette, October 3, 1884. He knows more than a thing or two about the present . This catch rendered a lot of attention and by 1884, the Sabine River was riddled with silver hunters. 0000002304 00000 n For information on, or to order True Believers, visit www.hendrickslake.com. Spanish soldiers in pursuit overtook the transport at Hendricks Lake and rather than give up the silver, the transport leader cut six wagonloads of silver loose and pushed them into Hendricks Lake. the new book is available in paperback. Some fishermen in the last century pulled several silver bars from those very waters with a hoop net. endobj Hobe Sound. Mainly clear. 3 talking about this. None of (the rest) lines up, but 1860s, 1870s, there was enough yada yada to create some story.. Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake" but he is not a 'true believer' himself. endobj 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.. The earliest mention of the treasure legend of Hendricks Lake that Pinkerton could find was in 1884. Hendricks Lake was the sight of many treasure hunts over the course of the 20th century. At one point, while wandering the beaches of Padre Island, he came across a bunch of Spanish coins. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/hendricks-lake. To contact Pinkerton, call (409) 201-8026 or email gary.pinkerton@outlook.com. No one's found the Spanish silver cache, but some treasure seekers in this area have struck gold-or gemstones, as the case may be. An historian named Herbert Bolton, using the original journals of the Mexicans from the eighteenth century, found what is now known as the Boyd shaft on Honey Creek. They both were at the lake during the treasure hunts of 1957 and 1958. 154 0 obj 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. Dallas Morning News, August 1, 1965. True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake. Our new Privacy Policy will go into effect on January 1st, 2023. Singer & Co., which was renamed the Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865. 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. His website is www.trammelstrace.com. xVy~}F0N13`&p"I9:tZ"-"}]{~~x/ c HfE4sowa-n_?B. The box was hidden by millionaire art dealer. The desire to believe that millions of dollars of silver bars still lie at the bottom of Hendricks Lake is not for the treasure hunters only.
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