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Dec 1, 2015 · Indiana is home to numerous legends of buried treasures, with at least 11 notable sites where treasure hunters might strike gold. Published Dec 1, 2015 Written by
Dec 9, 2014 · The aged structure is exactly what its name says: the home of revolutionary silversmith Paul Revere. Built in 1680, it is regularly open to the public.The house does not itself appear in National Treasure, but Patrick Henry Gates, played by Jon Voight, uses a lantern as a phony clue to depict Paul Revere's famous April 1775 ride warning of a British attack.
1 day ago · The Declaration of Independence, the centerpiece of the American Revolution, serves as the backbone of the story in National Treasure.It provides the key -- or rather, the map -- to the hidden ...
- Gangster Vincenzo James Genna’s Buried Loot
- Confederate General John Morgan’s Buried Gold Coins
- John Dillinger’s Buried Loot
- Josiah Hite’s Cache
- Bank Employee’S Buried Loot
- Reno Brother’S Cache
- Al Capone’s Whiskey Stash
- Train Robbers Buried Loot
- Harris Farmhouse Treasure
- Indiana Pirate Treasure
Vincenzo James Gennawas the head of the Genna Mafia in the 1920’s. Jim and his family made most of their money bootlegging illegal booze around the Chicago area. In 1923 when he was on the run from the police he buried a steel box full of money under a rock pile in a field near Bremen, Indiana. His driver said that the location of the loot could be...
John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate General during the Civil War. In July of 1863, General Morgan and his troops were on a 1,000 raid that extended into Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. They pillaged their way throughout the states stealing a considerable sum of loot along the way. It is said that while Morgan was in Indiana he had $5,000 worth of gold ...
John Dillinger was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 22, 1903. He was a gangster in the 1920s and 1930s. He is said to have stolen over a million dollars in his lucrative career of robbing banks. He spent a considerable amount of time in prison where he learned and crafted his trade of bank robbery. There are many buried treasure stories about ...
Josiah Hite was a currency counterfeiter in the 1800s. All I have on him is that he buried silver coins from his illegal trade near his homestead site in Charlestown, Indiana. It’s reported that he was arrested for counterfeiting but he ended up escaping. He never returned for his buried cache and it could still be buried somewhere in Charlestown.
In 1920 there was a man who worked at a bank and he reportedly stole $95,000 in cash and gold coins from the bank that he worked at. It is said that he must have buried the cash and coins on his farm that was located outside of Terre Haute, Indiana. The man later committed suicide not revealing where he buried the bank loot. It could still be burie...
The Reno Brothers Gang was a short-lived venture of a group of brothers in the late 1860s. The brothers robbed a few trains and banks during their exploits in the Midwest. The story goes that when a train was stopped at the Marshfield, Indiana depot in 1868 that the Reno Gang boarded. As the train steamed away they broke into the express car where ...
Al Caponewas well known for his bootlegging activity in the 1920s and 1930s. This story takes place on the Shore of Lake Michigan close to Michigan City, Indiana. Capone’s men were being followed by the police and they were carrying with them 2,000 cases of Al Capone’s whiskey. Fearing that the law would catch up with them and confiscate the whiske...
There were many train robberies in Indiana over the years. This is one of those stories that happened in 1928. A train was robbed by four bandits at the Marshfield, Indianadepot. The bandits got away with $80,000 in gold bullion, coins, and cash. A very large sum of money in for the 1920s. The robbers were pursued by the law and all four were caugh...
The Harris Farmhouse was owned by a free black named Chapman Harris who ran an underground railroad from the farm. He was a blacksmith who would hit an anvil with a hammer every time he was going to cross the Ohio river to help slaves over. The slaves on the other side would hear the anvil ring and they would know to get ready to board Harris’s raf...
Believe it or not, Pirates ventured into the Ohio Riverin the old days. Legend has it that they went as far as Indiana and hid out in a cave overlooking the Ohio River. It is said that they buried many treasures in the area a few miles south of Mount Vernon, Indiana. The Historic BK Club in Mishawaka, Indiana even holds a yearly pirate festival. Fu...
In the film, Benjamin Franklin Gates, a historian, along with computer expert Riley Poole and archivist Abigail Chase, search for a massive lost Freemason treasure, which includes a map hidden on the back of the United States Declaration of Independence. National Treasure was released worldwide on November 19, 2004. The film grossed $347 ...
Dec 28, 2010 · It sounds like the plot of an Indiana Jones film, only it's not a movie. The treasure belonged to a mysterious and advanced culture that flourished in the Eastern and Midwestern U.S. nearly 2,000 ...
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Dec 8, 2020 · Each of the 77 county-by-county listings included within Volume I of INDIANA's LOST & BURIED TREASURES 381 pages feature a map with colored numerals individually keyed to each narrative entry of lost and buried treasures, placer gold and diamonds, ghost towns, and historic sites, along with accurate latitude and longitude map coordinates for both the narrative targets and adjacent towns or ...
