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

Although Delaware does not have the number of land treasures that most states do, it does rank high in the number of underwater sites. The location of Delaware is the key to its history. Delaware Bay is the refuge that sailors have sought since 1609. This accounts, in part, for the dozens of shipwrecks along

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

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