Low 47F. Building on that production they are airing a new 8-episode series titled "Beyond Oak Island" premiering Tuesday, November 17 at 9:00 pm central. Like everybody else, he tried to find it over and over and over again. THE LEGEND A brig named Santa Rosa plundered in Matagorda Bay in 1816. hill on the Lakes side, the scans show some promising images. The men, in fear of Spanish retaliation, are said to have hidden the wagons in a nearby body of water. The son of the founder of the town of Tatum. Spring is a census-designated place within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States, part of the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area. 147 0 obj Host Mattie Blake and local movie maker Christian B. Roper (see Sunken Silver) led a team conducting underwater searching. February 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn? . The popularity of treasure hunting during this time period was profiled in numerous pulp magazines and news features, and the business of supplying treasure hunters was page one news in the Wall Street Journal. As Laffite and his men raced through East Texas with the wagons, Spanish. At that time, the legend was that Mexican land pirates lived along the lake and dumped gold, silver, and precious stones in the lake when they were attacked by the Texans or some other forces. Tatum reportedly built a device with buckets on a conveyor and operated by steam engines to attempt to bail the water from the lake. The NOAA says the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and partners first found the Ohio in Lake Huron in 2017. There was no treasure found. I always thought it was interesting that people had reason to believe there was pirate treasure 200 miles from the coast.. In 2011, Michigan-based treasure hunters Kevin Dykstra and Frederick Monroe found a shipwreck as they were searching for the $2 million in gold that, according to local legend, fell from a. though. Pinkerton also maintains facebook pages Trammels Trace and Hendricks Lake Treasure-True Believers. That's . The location was later widely believed to be Hendricks Lake, an oxbow lake formation on the south side of the Sabine River. It was one of the first times I met with Brackston after we graduated university last summer, Roper recalled. This caused the But alas, nothing came of it. He is portrayed by Armando Riesco. We need your support because we are a non-profit organization that relies upon contributions from our community in order to record and preserve the history of our state. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents()/Rect[130.3037 595.1786 171.4307 606.1786]/StructParent 2/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> Tyler oilman who partnered with Charles Fitzhugh Grice to do underwater metal detection in 1969. It says so much about East Texas folklore. This is the list to receive occasional emails containing special offers, deals and promotions (like contests). Now, more modern equipment was available, and one man used a metal detector and managed to get some interesting readings from the bottom of the lake. Filming for Sunken Silver should be completed by late summer and the documentary released during the fall. Lake Ridge (5) Las Olas Isles (5) Las Olas by the Sea (0) Lauder Gate Isles (2) . 1930, it came up again, 35. More maps appeared showing various locations of a lost silver mine. mATTY BLAKE (HOST) AND cHRISTIAN B. ROPER. A light came on when the probe hit metal. That set off a huge treasure hunting stampede. When one of the recent landowners near the lake sold their property to the mining company, they inserted a treasure clause that reserves the rights to one-half of any treasure trove found on the Property by Purchaser. There will always be true believers in the treasure legend of Hendricks Lake. For Roper, stories like these are more than a curiosity. On his website, Fenn wrote, "It was under a. Over the years there have been many who made a minimal effort or spent a little time at the lake only to discover that the conditions were too difficult and they had neither the time nor the money for such an undertaking. Texas oilmen. Although it hasnt yet been decided if the film will first be released at festivals and then to the public, Sunken Silver will eventually be available through online streaming. They both were at the lake during the treasure hunts of 1957 and 1958. In 1925, W.E. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(United States History Commons)/Rect[137.2383 228.9906 279.5625 240.7094]/StructParent 6/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> The Lakeview Motel's name is false advertising these dry days. In the last chapter of the book, I really talk about where do we go from here now., Theres something inherent in us that wants to believe those legends, Pinkerton stated. When a producer for The History Channel contacted me in early summer, the legend was about to add a new chapter to the story.The Lagina brothers of Oak Island fame were beginning a new series, Beyond Oak Island, and the story of Hendricks Lake was the premiere episode on November 17, 2020. Winds light and variable.. Houston oil men began a search for Spanish silver-thelegendary treasure of Hendricks Lake.! Jos R. Ralat is Texas Monthlys taco editor, writing about tacos and Mexican food. <<83DDF97377B4B2110A0000A4D0C2FC7F>]/Prev 639425>> Id met his daughter, who when she was 12, they let her push the plunger on the dynamite to blow up the bottom of the lake.. Pictured from left, Gary Pinkerton, Brackson McKnight and Christian Roper. The 1907 theft included the removal of a diamond star, pendant, and the collars of five knights of the Order. Hendricks Lake is an oxbow lake one and one-half miles south of the Sabine River and about four miles northeast of Tatum in Rusk County, Texas (32.371864N, 94.493190W). The dumping of the silver in the lake was a temporary thing until danger passed, then was recovered, after all he had divers at his disposal. The Irish Crown Jewels, stolen from Dublin Castle over a century ago, are still out there for treasure-seekers to find today. To make this film a reality, we are seeking donors to help us meet our minimum budget goal. As of May 2022, she resides in Austin and does media relations for TCEQ. The story died down but regained momentum when treasure hunting became popular again in the fifties and when True West magazine printed an article about the long-forgotten silver prompting treasure hunters to flock to Carthage and Tatum. The desire to believe that millions of dollars of silver bars still lie at the bottom of Hendricks Lake is not for the treasure hunters only. It was a cloudy evening with low visibility, and Laffite attempted to capture what appeared to be two Spanish merchant vessels. There are two legends in particular that seem to have found purchase in the minds of East Texas treasure hunters. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents()/Rect[493.2393 594.2333 540.0 607.124]/StructParent 3/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> He frequently returned to Galveston or the barrier islands near New Orleans to unload booty or take on supplies procured by Pierre. According to the legend, the Cherokee were fleeing north after the Battle of Neches when Roper said their path crossed Little Cypress Creek on the property of a man named OHendrick. Oxbow lakes result from a river's course change, in this case the Sabine River just to thc north. 0000000756 00000 n The story goes that Union soldiers tracked down Confederate president Jefferson Davis in 1865 and confiscated his gold. One person who is still committed to the Hendricks Lake legend is Jacksonville documentary film maker and treasure hunter, Christian B. Roper. At one point, while wandering the beaches of Padre Island, he came across a bunch of Spanish coins. The Lagina Brothers, famous for their search for the lost treasure on Oak Island and featured in the show The Curse of Oak Island, now hosts a new show called, Beyond Oak Island. The other big buried treasure legend from East Texas is the story of Little Cypress Creek. endobj Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) :P1N8ihB:Ap"4qau_-6)aqhcgZ!=(!~qB3&\S%I}Dc{M6H31jiet_Ya dZ`URw#ser6QcS$JJrnlHN_f1`>!nUA{:_>vtZ)F+/z#~+PDG-+\X?U89XfDD\%E%R! b#[\Z}%dw2Q cDDp=_Em&>M!$]5yors8%52]Tp%>E]SV)IW%]Ka("Y4'7QuFf$a One particularly famous legend is that of Jean Lafitte's treasure. Whether the treasure is truly out there or not remains to be proven. Also join us in the Facebook Group: Beyond Oak Island Treasures for more discussions. And he says, Treasure has a way of keeping its secrets. A lookout for alligators and venomous snakes is xVy~}F0N13`&p"I9:tZ"-"}]{~~x/ c HfE4sowa-n_?B. Tales of pirate booty and Mexican gold have captivated minds for generations, and it all could be closer than you might think. <>stream It featured Pirate Treasures. Just about every book written about Texas in that era mentioned it. The first episode premiered on Tuesday November 17 at 10PM EST on the History Channel. Pinkerton spent time in Carthage recently talking to those with accounts of some of the treasure hunters, and he hopes to connect with more people who have Hendricks Lake stories to tell. His website is www.trammelstrace.com. And You Thought Feral Hogs Were Bad. Xi-vrcjVJO%X *hve~os)&pZl0nuUH;M%\,iB!N7;B`h Y2?SXx#l};(5-Sj\Ji6Y|f>>`}j8 C=H: =.p0=*y pGOF30.#yZeY92Hq{IjFhaftP[Ch[&P"(D3CSP+ )Q- $NNBeX"Ld_kUB'`Y%e8re%R 0aHd$0=~^nbY:pK/DQxE8"Sh5Y=9'wXJ9'.m*?%YTAcM>W*N7852@ZyV|>}c(&fZXBtzq]uF4A1*i 0000001207 00000 n Now, two years later, in his book, "True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake," he has given new life to a legend about hidden silver that developed alongside Trammel's Trace. Hotspots would include the many watercourses through the area and gravel arroyos northeast of Boise, near Idaho City. Boise County - Close to 3,000,000 troy ounces of gold have been removed from the gravels of the Bose Basin and according to treasure hunters, there is plenty more to be found. His book, True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake, focused on the variety of people and their attempts to discover the fabled hidden silver and was released this past April. From the first searches in the 1880s to the large scale efforts of the 1950s and 1960s, its story has . We organized some strategic searches via dives doing grid patterns and things of that sort to try to get those up.. There are still treasure hunters to this day who believe the Lafitte fortune would be found if the lake was drained. 2018 Sunken Silver. Adams was a Rusk County backwoodsman who wears an old slouch felt hat, bib overalls, and a denim jacket, buttoned at the throat even in hot weather, and a favorite character of columnist Frank X. Tolbert for many of his Tolberts Texas articles over the years. Sometime around 1816,six wagon loads of Spanish silver ingots, allegedly stolen by the pirate Jean Laffite, were being transported through what is now East Texas. 158 0 obj The show starts with the Lagina brothers, Rick and Marty, sharing how their search on Oak Island opened them up to a world full of mysteries and lost treasures to explore. The earliest mention of the treasure legend of Hendricks Lake that Pinkerton could find was in 1884. I titled it True Believers because Im way more interested in the people who believe this stuff than the possibility that there might actually be something, Pinkerton said. 0000001829 00000 n A Seagoville pharmacist who sailed around the world. Societies are kind of defined by what they put their belief in and what they really want to be true. View Tracy Y Hendricks results in Arlington Heights, IL including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. HOUSTON It's the treasure hunt of a lifetime, and now it's landed them on national TV. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(Tell us)/Rect[72.0 211.9047 103.6572 224.7953]/StructParent 7/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> Jensen Beach. The silver was never recovered. 0000017195 00000 n xref Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives. The various people that searched for the Hendricks Lake treasure hooked him. One thing is certain though, East Texans will continue to be fascinated by stories like these. Legend says six wagons full of silver bars were rolled into hendricks lake. The tale basically states Galveston-based pirate Jean Laffite, in the year 1816, plundered a Spanish ship named the Santa Rosa. After getting some readings at the bottom of the lake (Hendricks Lake), two Dallas oilmen actually brought in a giant crane and attached a drag bucket to the cable. 159 0 obj Soldiers approach, wagons sunk in Hendricks Lake, an oxbow lake just south of the Sabine River in northeastern Rusk County. Although they attended different universities, Roper reconnected with high school friends Brackston McKnight and Ryan Travis and the three now work together on the project. The information comes from books and treasure hunting Web sites (the best of which are legendsofamerica.com and treasurefish.com). So all these treasure magazines sprung around these treasure hunting, metal detectors, stories about lost mines. Please post photos and a general area if you have . After completing high school in Virginia, she moved to New York City and pursued a career as a model following her entry into a Seventeen cover contest. 10 Lost Treasures in America Waiting to be Found. wooden object recovered during dive for the taping On the episode, diver Alex Wilcher brought up the one item found during the days spent searching. 0000003684 00000 n He also noted there were a handful of other treasure legends that were nearly the same but with a different location or body of water and no specific piece of evidence regarding the Hendricks Lake silver on which he can hang his hat., When asked what he hopes Sunken Silver will accomplish, he answered just to tell the story.. The lake is located in the extreme northeastern part of the county along the boundary between Rusk and Panola. Texas Lege Watch: A House Republican Fights for Chicken Freedom, Texas Monthly Recognized by ASME in the 2023 National Magazine Awards. Hughes Springs up in Cass County was founded by two brothers looking for a treasure in the 1850s or 60s. Even though some, including Waldrop and Stotlar, had looked into draining the lake, there were no other attempts at that folly. According to legend, Singer hid the money he found in a large sand dune that he called Money Hill. But as fate would have it, he and his family had to abandon their Texas home during the Civil War because they were considered Union sympathizers. Its hard to find any newspaper before that, but thats the first and oldest mention that I found of it, he said. . She was then forgotten for nearly 300 years. Gary L. Pinkerton is an author and independent researcher. The first episode premiered on Tuesday November 17 at 10PM EST on the History Channel. endobj It lies along the historic route of Trammels Trace, only one and one-quarter miles south of the location of Ramsdales Crossing/Ferry (Rocky Ford) on the Sabine River. In 1915 in New Orleans a worker uncovered a chest filled with more than 1,500 doubloons . They lowered another contraption through the pipe to the lake floor. Did the infamous privateer Jean Laffite steal a $2 million fortune in silver from a Spanish galleon and bury it in the Sabine River near the East Texas town Sabine? But if you dont like that version of the legend there are others. There was one spot that we initially found, I think it was June of 2020, which gave us a sonar reading that was pretty much an exact match to a wooden wagon that had submerged with some sort of weight, Roper said. A huge battle ensued between the two groups near what is now known as Tyler. Later, someone else who got high metal readings tried to dynamite the bottom of the lake. Six wagon loads of silver carried north along Trammel's Trace. Any "COB" finds in Texas I was just wondering if any member in Texas has found any cobs, reales, etc. In the 1950s, the Sabine River and the nearby lake (Hendrick's Lake) experienced a new onslaught of treasure seekers when the story of Laffite's silver was published by the True West magazine. Houston oilmen who conducted the largest search ever attempted in 1957-1958. Although $25,000 worth of coins and jewelry have been accounted for, no one knows where the rest of the loot went, and Collins and Bass were killed before they revealed anything. Beyond Oak Island Episode 2 Summary: Wild West Gold and the Search at Robbers Roost Canyon for Butch Cassidys Lost Treasure, All can be found to have a questing theme within them, Third Annual Masquerade Tribute of Hunts for Charity, The Second Annual Masquerade Tribute Wrap Up, Privacy Policy, Disclaimer and Affiliate Disclosure.