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Dents Run is an unincorporated community in Benezette Township, Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has attracted attention from treasure hunters and the media as the reputed site of a lost shipment of gold.
The Great Kentucky Hoard is a hoard of more than 700 gold coins unearthed in an undisclosed part of Kentucky, United States, in the 2020s by a man on his own land. The finder of the hoard has remained anonymous. There were a total of more than 800 Civil War–era coins, of which over 700 were gold coins.
Getler, co-author of “Rebel Gold,” a book exploring the possibility of buried Civil War-era caches of gold and silver, joined Parada in Dents Run for the 2018 dig.
The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but one of the few in the continuous Cumberland Mountain ridgeline. [2] It lies within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and is located on the border of present-day Kentucky and Virginia, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northeast of the tri-state marker with Tennessee.
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The FBI was hunting for long-lost Civil War treasure when authorities swarmed a wooded area in northwest Pennsylvania three years ago this month, newly-released government emails show.
The gold was later found by Juaristas who used it to finance their fight against Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. A series of western adventure novels written by Paul Wheelahan (using the pseudonym E. Jefferson Clay) featured two brawling Civil War veterans searching for stolen Confederate gold.
Late fall was at hand, and they determined to stay for the winter; there was a good creek and plenty of wild game. At one place near the mouth of the gulch, east of the creek, Thompson sunk a hole and found the first pay dirt, a piece of gold about the size of a grain of wheat. [6] [7] Prospecting up the canyon they found more gold in small ...