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Post by Rebel KGC on Feb 3, 2009 16:42:07 GMT -5
HA! I THOUGHT that road looked familiar! HA! It's da BEALE TRAIL ROAD!! DUH!!! Someone took the road sign down; "relic hunters", I recken. Followed on hard-paved road to gravel road; up TAYLOR MOUNTAIN it goes. Don't have my Ford Bronco (4-wheeler) no mo. SO... Got a map out; links with HWY 892 (I think), then Murrells Gap Road behind (NORTH of) TAYLOR MOUNTAIN, as beale said... OTHER roads near-by are: Taylor Mountain Road, Cool Springs Road, AND! BUFFALO RUN. BR is "off of" Irving Road. Didn't TJB say he was going to look for BUFFALO?
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Post by Rebel KGC on Feb 4, 2009 14:04:33 GMT -5
;D STARBUCKS! Gonna do R & I on OLD roads of Bedford County, Va. 1810's - 1885, especially related to Lynchburg, Va. (SUNNY out...). WHEW! ALL those mountains! ALL those old roads, which you can see, now... with the leaves down. And the James River Fords/Ferries Crossings... DOC! Better bring a 4-Wheel drive, when you come up in May, 2009... HA!
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Post by Rebel KGC on Mar 10, 2009 20:50:14 GMT -5
;D LODESTONE! ;D From a NOVEL! A GAME! A MAP!
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Post by TOMm on Mar 13, 2009 19:40:17 GMT -5
Hi Gents
i also found an petrfied log and imade a mistake by showing it to a class of colledge kids now they have chipped it away BUT it was about a hundred yards from aset of large iorn safe hinges that i dug up the safe was gone But about 25 yards away from the set of hinges is and still is the marker to the one vault that ive only walked on because of free loaders and big brother would surley like to know what i honestly do know in the early 50s and 70s a chest of GOLD BARS was brought from that area one of the men in the 50s was my realative but the 70s i do not know them but a friend of mined always hunted that area and he told me what he saw.
TOMm
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Post by Rebel KGC on May 18, 2009 22:26:50 GMT -5
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Post by Rebel KGC on Jun 23, 2009 22:19:38 GMT -5
ANYONE heard from Doc? Roy has "it" sited; will post something, when he "knows"... RESEARCH/SEARCH is STILL "on-going". BAD time of year to get out "into da field"... I would wait until LATE Fall, Winter, or EARLY Spring... I am doing R & I on the OLD road/railroad "connections" in WESTERN Bedford County, where I think the Beale Treasure/CSA Treasury "stories" mix well, with "local" history. Consider da "JOB PRINT"... it combines TWO stories, into ONE; Beale Story & CSA Story. MT. ZION! BUFORD!Check out da "triangle"... pointing NORTH, to the graveyard. Bi-sected by the railroad...
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Post by Rebel KGC on Jun 24, 2009 19:43:03 GMT -5
;D Well... Mt. Zion Church, on TOP of the hill (NORTH of Rt. 460 WEST), had a "connection" to P. Buford, who once owned da land or something. A TRIANGULR "piece" of land was purchased to build Mt. Zion Church, back in "the old days"; a GRAVE-YARD was NORTH of the church, and LATER the Tennesee & Virginia Rail Road "bi-sected" the church & grave-yard. COULD it be... that the REBS "off-loaded" CSA "assets" at Mt Zion Church... buried SOME of it in the OLD graveyard NORTH of the church? LATER, still, the Highway Dept. put a road along the RR Tracks... DESTROYING the OLD graveyard... and a NEW grave-yard was placed close to da church. Hmmmmmmmm... A TRIANGLE, and SQUARE... bi-sected by a STAIGHT LINE; WHERE have I seen THAT symbol, before? "Draw" it out, folks...
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Post by kydave on Jun 25, 2009 16:23:41 GMT -5
"G" I know what that is! ;D
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Post by beale on Jun 25, 2009 18:15:09 GMT -5
Hi kydave and rebel, The old graveyard is still there. It is north of the railroad tracks on land owned by Dick Kepley. His farm and land extends all the way over to highway 717 that goes on to the top of Taylor's Mountain. I have searched around the cemetery. Now the railroad bed is built up to a height of 40 to 60 feet in some places if it is under that the Beale Treasure will never be found. Halfway down the road towards the Buford's Tavern is where you will find the land bought by Newton Hazelwood and was later sold by his son Frank to none other than Clayton Hart? Newton Hazelwood had to make payments to the bank of this land in gold----yes gold. Now what do you think about that? Also north of where Hazelwood owned this property is an old blockhouse that Mary Ingles stayed at when she walked back from Ohio after being captured by the Shawnee Indians. She later married a man by the name of John Miller. The Indian burial grounds are just north of this blockhouse and beneath all this is the cave that TJB was going to bury the treasure in originally but changed his mind. Yes, that cave extends from west of Buford's Tavern under Goose Creek Valley and has another entrance four miles away over on Dick Kepley's property on 717.
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Post by Rebel KGC on Jun 25, 2009 18:41:20 GMT -5
;D Yo! (To BOTH of you...). SHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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Post by Rebel KGC on Jun 25, 2009 20:25:16 GMT -5
LOL... beale, what we DO know is that N. Hazelwood WAS a REB soldier & WAS a Rail Road guy, based in Big Lick/Roanoke, Va. and lived and was buried in Montvale (in THAT area), etc. It is PROBABLY on "his land" that REBEL "asset" was "buried", with the "pointer" triangular piece of land, indicating Taylor Mountain... as the NEXT place to look. When Robert E. Lee visited SHARP TOP, with his daughter in 1869 (before he died), he was PROBABLY looking "down in da valley", at the church. BOTH of 'em LATER... went to see an old friend of Gen. Lee... P. BUFORD! AND SO... da gravy thickens... ;D (Looking for the "GREAT BALL", on top of Taylor's Mountain...). NOW, Bro. kydave... add a circle or dot ABOVE yer drawing...
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Post by kydave on Jun 25, 2009 20:38:18 GMT -5
I can say one thing Beale, nobody can't ever say you haven't done the "Research"! Amazing how much you know and can recall! That other Cave entrance sounds like a very likely spot to me since the orginal plan seemed to be to find a Cave to put the pots in!
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Post by Rebel KGC on Jun 25, 2009 20:42:22 GMT -5
;D AND! "Within FOUR miles..." ;D
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Post by Rebel KGC on Jun 25, 2009 21:35:44 GMT -5
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Post by key master on Jun 26, 2009 10:44:53 GMT -5
Taylor Mountian, how was that dude sent that google map with direction on it ? ;D
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