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Post by kydave on Feb 23, 2008 11:18:13 GMT -5
Outstanding story about Pinckneyville that you wrote for the April issue of Lost Treasure magazine Albert! Must have taken a tremendous amount of research. I do believe you have found your "Callin"! Thanks for the info!
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Post by beale on Feb 23, 2008 14:58:32 GMT -5
Thanks, kydave. How is it the March Issue just came out and you have read the April Issue? I have not seen the April Issue yet, is it on line at www.losttreasure.com ?
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Post by kydave on Feb 23, 2008 21:27:50 GMT -5
No don't think it's online yet, mine comes in the mail and always runs a month or two ahead for some reason. On the cover it says "Fort Knox of the Confederacy" and your story is on page 59. Whats that big rock with all the graffitti drawing on it?
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Post by beale on Feb 24, 2008 7:27:39 GMT -5
kydave,
That was a marble monument erected to signify where the Pinckneyville Courthouse stood in 1791. All of that graffiti was placed there by "devil worshipers" they had been using the monument as an alter I suppose.
I am glad you enjoyed the story. There was a lot of research involved-------Senator Charles Cotesworth Pinckney's writings---Official Records of the War of the Rebellion-------Antebellum South Carolina----Shipping records of the ports of Charleston and others in the South also books on the Erie Canal ---- Rise and Fall of the Confederacy by Jefferson Davis----- Two books by Helen Seabrook Neapreav about Secretary of the Treasury, George Alfred Trenholm, "Battle of Brown's Mill" by Williams, a writer in Greenville South Carolina, an article he wrote in "Treasure Magazine" years ago. There were scores of other sources but mostly the bulk of the story came from the OR. I sure wish I could scuba dive I would be under the Broad River with my metal detector. Somewhere near that monument is where the "Vaults" of "Fort Knox of the Confederacy" were built. Off towards the northeast from the monument is a headstone marking a grave of "Bobos Cocos" and about one hundred graves marked by white quartz stones. This is where the Battle of CSA General Butler and Yankee General Palmer took place. Williams sent me emails lately on the treasurenet forum saying the words, "Bobos Cocos" were two different foreign words having something to do with the KGC and telling where the vaults are located. I DON'T KNOW. I haven't gotten back down that way, but if someone is lucky I wish they would at least give me one coin from their finds?
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Post by beale on Feb 26, 2008 5:57:24 GMT -5
By the way kydave, you mentioned the large stone with graffiti, it wasn't by any chance on the front cover? Most likely inside the magazine? Thanks.
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Post by kydave on Feb 26, 2008 10:01:55 GMT -5
No it was with the story and i assume a picture of you standing beside it.
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Post by beale on Feb 26, 2008 19:36:55 GMT -5
kydave,
If you make a trip down that way, when you leave Lockhart and go north up the west side of Broad River, on a dirt road you will see a boat dock or marina, off to the left on the hillside at the marina is a swell place to look. There is holes all over, I believe was dug by Oregon Dave when he recovered over $1 Million Dollars worth of treasure. A man in South Carolina saw over 3,600 Mexican Silver Dollars and jewelry, though he never got any for himself. Oregon Dave cashed all of this in at Houston, Texas and flew first class back to Oregon. There is a draught down that way again and it would be an excellent time to have a look around. Good luck.
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Post by beale on Feb 28, 2008 19:20:39 GMT -5
By the way, kydave, there was to be another one of my stories in the April Issue, "Battle for Brice's Crossroads" Is this story in there also? It may not have my name on the story? Was my name on the Pinckneyville story? Thanks.
Also my CD's are still selling. I am sending one to Florida tomorrow, "Lost Treasury Gold"
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Post by beale on Mar 16, 2008 14:18:57 GMT -5
Thanks anyway, kydave.
I got an answer from Lost Treasure Magazine. It seems the people that own the property down at Brice's Crossroads sent them a complaint about my story. They say they sold a lot of their land to Federal Park Service and that it was a $5000 fine to recover or search on the land now. They say I should have checked with them before I sent the story in to Lost Treasure. Why in the world would I care whether they sold the land or not? Seems to me they should have contacted all newspapers in this country and let everyone know they sold most of their land to the **** park service.
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Post by kydave on Mar 17, 2008 22:50:06 GMT -5
I have thought about writing a story or two myself and was thinking the other day, i should get written permission from the landowner before i send a thousand treasure hunters to his house wanting to hunt! People are different, some wouldn't care if they got a share of the loot and some wouldn't want to be bothered thinking if anything was ever there it's long gone anyway! I always noticed Paul Hensons storys at the end he would always say the landowner will give permission to hunt and usually gave directions to the site. Or you need to contact the landowner before hunting.
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Post by beale on Mar 18, 2008 5:08:34 GMT -5
My problem was the landowner died, his wife now does not want anyone metal detecting on the land pluse she sold a large portion of the land to the government park service. How was I to know all of this, her in Mississippi and I in Virginia unless I wanted to go there and hunt again, then I would have called.
The man was sure a whole lot easier to deal with, then they always are.
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Post by beale on Apr 7, 2008 19:48:55 GMT -5
Outstanding story about Pinckneyville that you wrote for the April issue of Lost Treasure magazine Albert! Must have taken a tremendous amount of research. I do believe you have found your "Callin"! Thanks for the info! ;D ;D ;D HAPPY HAPPY ;D ;D ;DHAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY ;D ;DBIRTHDAY ;D ;DBIRTHDAY BIRTHDAY BIRTHDAY ;D ;D BIRTHDAY BIRTHDAYYOU'LL HAVE TO DECYPHER ---I THINK IT IS IN CODE?
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Post by kydave on Apr 11, 2008 11:10:16 GMT -5
Thanks Beale!
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Post by beale on Apr 12, 2008 7:21:37 GMT -5
Your welcome, kydave. Have you ever got to search for the cannon you once told me about? I am presently researching and writing a new book on a frontier fort built in 1756. I may get time to go down and look for your cannon sometime this summer. If you don't want to post about the cannon just send me a pm or email me. Thanks. Look forward to meeting you. Albert
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Post by kydave on Apr 13, 2008 8:12:46 GMT -5
Nope haven't gone down there yet. But i think it might be on Park property and probably weighs 1500 to 2000 lbs. . So a real problem there!
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