No idea what the author's source was for these lost treasures, but I included a couple of them.
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Tales of missing treasure abound in Pennsylvania
David "Robber" Lewis made a reputation for himself in the early 1800s, robbing the rich and giving to the poor. He was captured in 1820 and, on his deathbed, told his jailers of three caches of gold. One, containing $10,000, was concealed in a small cave along the Juniata River near Lewistown. A second was buried along Conodoguinett Creek near the caves he used as a hideout. The third, containing $20,000, was buried in the hills outside Bellefonte. During his last imprisonment, Lewis is said to have taunted his jailers by telling them he could see the cache from the cell. None of the loot was ever found.
Somewhere in the Allegheny National Forest to the west of Tionesta is a cave reputed to be full of silver. In the late 1700s, a settler named Hill got lost and sought shelter in a cave for the night. Inside, he found veins of silver along the walls and ceiling and, in the floor, a pit filled with pure silver. He made his way home, but was unable to retrace his route to the cave. Hill's story was backed up by an early entrepreneur who traded liquor with the American Indians in exchange for furs and silver. When asked where they got all their silver, legend has it that they blindfolded him and took him to a cave matching the one described in Hill's story. Pure silver was found in Indian burial grounds near Irvine in Warren County, about 15 miles upstream from Tionesta. The cave has never been found.
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