This story was copied from another site I find it interesting but have not done any research on it.
A cache, believed to be about $7200 in coins, is almost certainly still where it was hidden near Little Rock, Mississippi. And since this happened during the 1930s, there are people, including members of the family, still living, who can remember the incident. This is one instance where permission must be obtained before you can begin searching.
In 1929, when the stock market crashed, Zachary, or Zack, Goforth lost most of his life savings. Goforth owned 540 acres which were tended each year, and he was considered one of the wealthier men of the area. After losing his money in 1929, Zack just worked harder to accumulate another fortune. It took time, but in a few years he had again become one of the most affluent men in his community.
This time, however, Zack did not trust the banks. His family knew that somewhere on the farm he had hidden several fruit jars full of coins. Sickness struck suddenly, and Zack tried vainly to tell his family where he had hidden his small fortune, estimated to be over $7000, but he died without revealing its location.
Indirect proof of the cache came in 1936, when two boys, while fishing in a creek on the farm, found a small iron pot with $800 in gold coins inside. This is believed to be one of the first caches Goforth made, since gold had been called in by the government early in the 1930s. It is almost certain that somewhere on the Goforth farm near Little Rock, Mississippi, there is over $7000 waiting for some lucky treasure hunter.
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