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« on: June 28, 2010, 09:09:12 am »
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Just wondering if anyone else hunts in or around Jeffeson county. Have a few sites mapped out to hunt, but can't never seam to find any real intrigueing places to go. No cival war sites, treasure legends, notorious outlaws, etc.. Seams like Alabama is has a pretty boring history in that respect.

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« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2010, 09:39:24 am »
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Not that boring

Bog Hole Treasure. Toward the end of the Civil War in 1865, one story tells that a wealthy planter named Charles Hansen was traveling with two Confederate soldiers in disguise on a treasure wagon full of $100,000 in gold and silver bound for General Hood in Columbia, Tennessee when the wagon became stuck in a bog hole about 4 miles north of Athens, Alabama in Limestone County, and 1/2 mile from a major stream crossing (which might have been near Williams Spring).  While they were struggling to free the wagon, Union scouts arrived and a gun battle ensued, during which the Confederate soldiers tossed two metal chests containing the treasure into the bog rather than let it fall into Union hands.  Hansen escaped and fled to the home of a fellow planter, intending to return, but when he did he encountered another Union patrol and was killed.  The area was searched, but it is believed that no one was ever able to relocate the treasure.


Spanish Gold Bars at Old Bay Minette. Shortly after the American Revolution and Spain's establishment in 1780 of the Spanish Fort at the old site of Bay Minette which was on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay at the time, some Spaniards were transporting a large number of gold bars when they realized they were being pursued by a large party of hostile Indians.  They knew they had to move quickly as the Indians appeared to be preparing to ambush, and as hauling the heavy gold bars was slowing them down, they decided to try to bury the treasure and escape while they could.  Some were able to flee to safety while others lost their lives, and due to confusion among the survivors regarding the location of the buried treasure, it was never recovered. 

The Pot of Gold Nuggets.  In the early 1900's a Cherokee Indian who had been forced to leave his land returned from Oklahoma to search for a pot of gold nuggets his ancestors had buried in 1836.  He searched the farm owned at the time by Shelby Cullom bordering the Flint River about 2 miles north of Ryland at the northeast edge of Huntsville near the Bell Factory area in Madison County.  As the land had changed and did not match the description, he failed to find the gold. 


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