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Montezuma's treasure is a legendary buried treasure said to be located in the Casa Grande ruins or elsewhere in the Southwestern United States and Mexico. [1] The legend is one of many treasure stories in American folklore. Thomas Penfield wrote, "There is not the slimmest thread of reality in this story which is common throughout Mexico and ...
There are monuments to Mexican–Americans who served in World War II in various places, e.g. in Emporia, Kansas, [47] and in Sacramento, California (which was vandalized). [48] There are also monuments and memorials relating to the Texas Revolution (1835–36) , which preceded the Mexican–American War by a decade.
International Boundary Marker No. 1, U.S. and Mexico is a monument on the Mexico–U.S. border, on the west bank of the Rio Grande River near El Paso, Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1976.
The treasure was allegedly stolen by a Mexican gang in Monterrey, Mexico and buried in southeastern Arizona's Skeleton Canyon in the summer or fall of 1881. According to extant stories, a Mexican gang led by Jose Estrada had sacked several banks and cathedrals in Monterrey, taking a large amount of gold and silver bullion, gold statuary, and ...
[133] [134] Legend also says a few Mexican folklore demons can be seen, such as the Xtabay and chaneque. [135] Wyndham Mérida's Inn in Mérida, Yucatan: allegedly several entities haunted the building. According to employee testimonies, the most active entity is an old man who supposedly was buried under the property before the inn's ...
The district, centered on the old plaza, was the city's center under Spanish (1781–1821), Mexican (1821–1847), and United States (after 1847) rule through most of the 19th century. The 44-acre park area was designated a state historic monument in 1953 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
8 reales Mexican silver cob, full date 1715, recovered from the 1715 fleet Rare 8 escudos lima dated 1710, recovered from the 1715 Fleet. The 1715 Treasure Fleet was actually a combination of two Spanish treasure fleets returning from the New World to Spain, the "Nueva España Fleet", under Captain-General Don Juan Esteban de Ubilla, and the "Tierra Firme Fleet", under Don Antonio de Echeverz ...
Finder of the legendary shipwreck RMS Republic, an in-progress recovery for what may be the greatest treasure recovery of all time, The Tsar's Treasure, estimated to be worth more than $2 billion in gold coin, gold, and silver bars, circulated coin and passenger valuables. Tommy Gregory Thompson (b. 1952, American, currently held in jail).