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

Maine ranks highly as a treasure-hunting state with a variety of sites. Nearly every beach in the state has a story about pirate treasure and many stories about pioneers, Indians, and early bandit caches. An unusual treasure is probably still where it was stored, about ten miles southwest of Portland, Maine, waiting to be found.

Maryland is a state that will surprise most treasure hunters. It is often thought that there are few locations worth searching for, but my research has shown this theory to be wrong. There is a treasure in Maryland that can still be found. The triple-masted sloop, the Indies Ballad, was thrown into the vault of

Indiana was part of the Northwest Territory ceded to England by France in 1763 after the French and Indian War. The French had explored and claimed all the land north of the Ohio River and west to the Mississippi. Between 1700 and 1750, they built trading posts, forts, and missions along the major rivers, but

Illinois received its name from the Kaskaskia Indian word, Illini, meaning “real man.”The first European to explore the area was Joliet, in 1673. Soon afterward, French traders and missionaries came in search of gold, silver, furs, and converts. Father Marquette founded the earliest mission at the Indian village of Kaskaskia in 1675. Between 1682 and

This research gives only a small number of the known treasure sites in Georgia. The state ranks fourth in the number of lost treasures in the United States. There are millions of dollars in Civil War, Indian, pirate, and white pioneer caches of what we call treasure waiting to be found in the Peach State.

Florida has more sunken treasure along her coastline and in the inland bays than any other state in the Union. There are also hidden caches made by gangsters, Indians, smugglers, and politicians. The State offers these locations to the treasure hunter, plus the best “coin shooting” beaches in the world. Florida is truly a treasure