Myths and Legends of Our Own Land

America's own folklore, collected county by county: the treasure and the cats at Harry Main's, the headless skeleton of Swamptown, the storm ship of New Haven, and several hundred more.

Other Buried Wealth

14 pages in this part of Myths and Legends of Our Own Land.

Other Buried Wealth

HE wealth of the Astors hardly exceeds the treasure that is supposed to be secreted here and there about the country, and thousands of…

Other Buried Wealth: England

The four men did return, however, and lived by themselves amid the woods of Saugus, the gossips reporting that a beautiful woman had been…

Other Buried Wealth: Marble

In 1852 Hiram Marble announced that he had been visited by spirits, who not only told him that the pirates' spoils were still in their…

Other Buried Wealth: Money

The Heart of Greylock is the name given to the crater-like recess, a thousand feet deep, in the tallest of the Berkshire peaks, but it was…

Other Buried Wealth: Camel

A little company of Spanish adventurers passed along the base of the Green Mountains early in the last century, expecting to return after…

Other Buried Wealth: Boston

When the Hessian troops marched from Saratoga to Boston, to take ship after Burgoyne's surrender, they were in wretched condition-war-worn…

Other Buried Wealth: Mike

On tempestuous nights, when the boughs creaked together, it was said that dark shapes might be seen writhing on the branches and capering…

Other Buried Wealth: French

Too On Crown Point, Lake Champlain, is the ruin of a fort erected by Lord Amherst above the site of a French work that had been thrown up…

Other Buried Wealth: Follingsby

Follingsby's Pond, in the Adirondacks, was named for a recluse, who, in the early part of this century, occupied a lonely but strongly…

Other Buried Wealth: Island

Coney Island is declared to have been used by a band of pirates as the first national sand bank, and, as these rascals were caught and…

Other Buried Wealth: Clairieux

In the early colonial days, Grand Island, in Niagara River, was the home of a Frenchman, Clairieux, As to Buried Riches an exile or refugee…

Other Buried Wealth: Indian

In Indian Gap, near Wernersville, Pennsylvania, the Doane band of Tories and terrorists hid a chest of gold, the proceeds of many…

Other Buried Wealth: Isle

The Isle of the Yellow Sands, in Lake Superior, was supposed by Indians to be made of the dust of gold, but it was protected by vultures…

Other Buried Wealth: Spaniards

The Spaniards were said to have entombed three hundred thousand dollars in gold near Natchez. A man to whom the secret had descended…

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