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« on: November 18, 2006, 10:58:24 am »
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Have heard this story for quite a long time.  Even had an eyewitness sign an affivdavit that she saw the cannon (12 pounder) in the mid-1930's.  Seems the area was experiencing a drought and the water level was very low...even though she and her family had gone down to the old swimming hole.  As with most "lost cannon" stories, it either gets dark or momma calls them home for dinner or a monster attacks, etc....so they never recovered the cannon.

Actually, have another story about a family that did recover the cannon and had it on display for a generation or two near the shores of Grand Lake.  The cannon was somehow shipped to a cousin in Arizona where the cannon carriage was left to rot.  Then a grass fire got the rest of the wood.  All the metal parts and the tube were recovered by a fellow in Arkansas who restored the cannon.  You can see a photo of it in my book Brilliant Victory:  The Second Civil War Battle of Cabin Creek, Indian Territory.

My friends at the Oklahoma Historical Society tell me that in the history business there's always a story about a secret passageway into a fort and a cannon in the creek.

I guess its up to us to find the cannon in all of those creeks. 

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« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2006, 11:55:11 am »
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I have read somewhere they would stuff the cannon with gold coins and bury them

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« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2006, 12:32:01 pm »
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There is also a famous treasure tale in Germany where the residents of a small village back in the 16th century would put all their treasure in their church's bell, sela it wioth a stone and dum pit into a lake as Germany was at war with Sweden and the Swedes very approching the town (what a long sentence  Smiley)

The lake no longer exists today and the grounds have become dry land. It's one of the projects which I would like to give a survey using a GPR one day.

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« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2006, 12:33:39 pm »
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Wow that would be great to find

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« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2006, 12:43:26 pm »
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The lake no longer exists today and the grounds have become dry land. It's one of the projects which I would like to give a survey using a GPR one day.

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What happened to the lake?? Huh? Huh? They simply don't just disappear for no reason.

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« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2006, 01:12:29 pm »
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Hello Steve,

I assume that the lake was suffering from the removal of natural water for the nearby fields and or the communities water supply. I assume that the depth of the water dropped slowly from year to year and at one point it got filled up. Well, maybe I should also have clarified that it was not a big lake but more something like a natural fountain.

Maybe I have some pictures of it somewhere.

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« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2006, 01:29:38 pm »
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Also happend here in Canada  but it was not the lake that disappeared it was a whole town submerged under water i will post later

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« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2006, 01:53:14 pm »
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The lake no longer exists today and the grounds have become dry land. It's one of the projects which I would like to give a survey using a GPR one day.

Best regards and happy hunting to all,

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GPR's are pretty common equipment among serious treasure hunters. You'd think there might be someone in Germany who had the equipment but is looking for someone with some really good leads and might be willing to work out some sort of partnership. That's probably what I would try first before I purchased an expensive GPR unit.

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« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2006, 01:59:05 pm »
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there is a town bout 30 miles from here that was submerged in the 60's when a dam was built to control the flow of nearby river.some summers the lake gets so low you can walk down to the old streets ect.. pretty neat

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« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2006, 08:18:06 am »
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There is also a town in Washington State northwest of Spokane that was flooded when Lake Rooselvelt came into being.  Fort Spokane that was built in 1889, is only a stone's throw from the townsite.  When the lake goes down during the summer time, you can still walk through the ghostly townsite.  However, you can not metal detect, because the site is on Federal property, just like the Fort Spokane site, which is administered by the National Park Service.

Places like the old townsite should be open to metal detectorists.  There is nothing there that could be construed as "historic."

When questioned about the townsite artifacts, the NPS wants no digging...period.  Recently, they prosecuted a fellow who had several Native American artifacts in his possession.  He said he found them on shore, but a ranger watched him dig up the artifacts at several locations.

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