The birth of the Minnesota Territory was in 1849, and it was a state by 1858. However, the interest in treasure hunters can go back much further than that, as there were explorers, fur traders, voyageurs, and missionaries in the area as far back as 1618. The French fur hunters were the first, and when

At the end of the French and Indian War, France ceded the Great Lakes and the Northwest Territories to England. Twenty years later, in September 1783, England granted the Northwest Territory to the United States under the Treaty of Paris. A part of that grant became the state of Michigan, which was admitted to the

For treasure hunters who think that, because it is one of the oldest settled areas in the United States, all the treasures in Massachusetts have been found, the following information will surprise those who visit the Pilgrim State. The coastline, including tidal waters, is nearly 2000 miles long, with a large portion of it made

Treasure-hunting in Mississippi has been going on for more than 400 years. Spanish conquistadors sailed along its coast in search of riches. Vainly questing for gold in 1540, Hernando de Soto entered the State of Mississippi. He died on the banks of the Mississippi River and is buried in its waters. Frenchmen attracted by the

Even though there hasn’t been much mining for gold or silver in Missouri, some of its lost mines and treasure stories are linked to the Spanish mining for gold and silver. Other Missouri treasure stories have their backgrounds in robbing stagecoaches, trains, and banks by outlaws and treasure buried or hidden as a result of

Iowa is not as rich in treasure sites as several other states, but there are enough locations to keep a treasure hunter busy for the rest of his life. Fort Atkinson and Fort Defiance are two forts in Iowa that might interest the treasure hunter.Fort Atkinson was established in Winneshiek County to protect the Winnebago

Kansas was the great crossroads of the nation for fur traders and trappers, military expeditions, explorers, trade expeditions, the Great Emigration to the Oregon country starting in 1843, and then the rush to the gold fields, which brought a throng of 90,000 people across Kansas in the year 1849 alone. In any vast movement of

The treasure or relic hunter will have no problem finding a site in Kentucky. There are hundreds of stories of Indians and pioneers, the Civil War, and other battles, ambushes, and skirmishes that have taken place in Kentucky, where money and loot were hidden. Dozens of prisoners were killed in their cabins or forts, at

Louisiana treasure stories date from the days of French and Spanish explorers through the era of Gulf pirates to the years of Yankee depredations. The burial of family possessions during the Civil War was commonplace. Southerners knew that Yankee soldiers were under orders to seize everything of value to the Confederate cause. Hundreds of plantation