Connecticut has a wealth of interest for the treasure hunter. Its many villages of old houses and churches, rivers, lakes and modern city parks all present a varied number of treasure and metal detector sites for the interested person. Nearly every known mineral has been found in Connecticut, and the exploitation of its mineral wealth
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Colorado is ranked third in the number of treasure sites in the United States. There are dozens of stories of lost mines, stagecoach robberies in which money was hidden by bandits, Indian raids in which the white pioneers or miners lost valuables, and bank robberies in which the money is still missing. Also, there are
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California is the number one state in its quantity and variety of buried and sunken treasures, lost mines, and artifact and relic sites. It is hard to imagine the untold wealth that awaits the treasure hunter in California. Good hunting! When the diamond fields of America are mentioned, most people think of the well-known fields
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If any particular type of treasure and lost mine story predominates in Arkansas, it is the stories and legends concerning mines once worked by Spaniards and the treasure buried by them. When the Spaniards retired from the territory, the Indians naturally appropriated their property, and stories abound about the mines they destroyed or concealed. There
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It has been estimated, by knowledgeable people, that there is enough information in Arizona concerning what we call treasure and ghost towns to fill half-a-dozen books. Arizona also had more than its share of blood and thunder days-the stuff from which treasure legends are born. Hostile Indians raided its ranches and mining camps, carrying away
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Alaska, our largest state, has numerous sites of lost gold mines, caches, shipwrecks, and abandoned mining camps. The treasure hunter will have no problem finding interesting and profitable locations. In 1903, the International Boundary Survey was in the process of establishing the exact boundaries of Alaska and Canada. Gold had been discovered in the Yukon.
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Although Alabama has a very small coastline compared to other Southern states and therefore has a limited number of underwater treasure sites, the state is loaded with Civil War locations where caches and relics can be found. There must have been thousands of caches of money, jewels, and other valuables buried or hidden in the
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Hawaii became a state on August 22, 1959, and was dubbed “The Aloha State.” Aloha, in the Hawaiian language, means many things; it is a word of greeting, meaning both hello and goodbye. But it also means welcome, love, affection, warmth, tolerance, and understanding. The variety of treasure sites in Hawaii will probably come as
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No state in the Great Plains Belt is richer in treasure and artifact sites than Nebraska. The great movement of westward migration touched Nebraska more than any other state because it more or less followed the natural path of its great central watercourse, the Platte River. It has been said that the entire length of
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The gold and the precious and semi-precious stones in the hills of Montana have given the state the epithet “The Treasure State.” Montana has produced more sapphires than any other state in the nation. It has extensive commercial deposits of green, yellow, red, and aquamarine sapphires. The cornflower blue sapphires of Yogo Gulch are gems
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