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The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the sea forever. The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and of Dutch maritime power .
The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine (also known by similar names) is, according to legend, a rich gold mine hidden in the Southwestern United States. The location is generally believed to be in the Superstition Mountains, near Apache Junction, east of Phoenix, Arizona. There have been many stories about how to find the mine, and each year people ...
Lost Dutchman State Park is a 320-acre (129 ha) state park located in northwestern Pinal County, Arizona on the Apache Trail (State Route 88) north of Apache Junction, near the Superstition Mountains in central Arizona. It is named after the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine, a famously lost gold mine legendary in the tales of the Old West.
Der Dutchman also provides meals for up to 300 in its banquet facilities on the ground floor of the Carlisle Inn next door. But the business also can accommodate groups as small as 20 for ...
The legend of the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine centers around the Superstition Mountains. According to the legend, a German immigrant named Jacob Waltz discovered a mother lode of gold in the Superstition Wilderness and revealed its location on his deathbed in Phoenix in 1891 to Julia Thomas, a boarding-house owner who had taken care of him for many years.
The Peralta Stones are a set of engraved stones suppsedly indicating the location of the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine, in Arizona, United States. The "Dutchman" was actually a German immigrant named Jacob Waltz (c. 1810–1891). [1] The story goes that the stones are named for an obscure "Peralta family", supposedly an old and powerful Mexican family.
Heavenly Sweets Bakery is opening a satellite location in the Brickstone Building later this month. It took nearly three months to renovate the space now occupied by the French Press Cafe, located ...
De Vliegende Hollander ride building. The legend tells that Willem van der Decken, a captain of the Dutch East India Company (VOC, the first limited company), is a wealthy trader in command of the fastest ship of the VOC, named the "Hollander" (Dutchman).