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Post by beale on Apr 17, 2008 5:00:10 GMT -5
kydave,
We'll just open that cannon up, get the payroll out and donate the cannon to the park---------no problem, there. Talk to you later. Summer is coming.
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Post by hotfoot on Jul 17, 2008 3:29:30 GMT -5
I just happened to stumble onto this after a little online research on Pinckneyville. I have to tell ya guys that Iam literally 15 minutes away from there. Needless to say, my interest inthe place just jumped. I have been down there numerous times back in my younger days... Back then maybe you were on a double date, and you'd tell the girls about this place, and how "mysteriously" it became a ghost town. Naturally they wanna go see, and next thing you know they are clinging all over you, scared as you wind down the narrow lane deep into the woods. Which was the whole reason for going there to start with! LOL.
Anyway Iam reminiscing, and quite off subject.
So maybe I have a new reason to go back? There could quite literally be millions of reasons to go back... Even if I only found a few war relics it would be well worth it. I guess what Iam looking for mainly is where to get started? I looked for the article mentioned in this post but cant find it on their website? So if anyone has anything at all they would care to share with me, I gotta tell ya I firmly believe in the "you scratch my back i'll scratch yours" philosophy. And would gladly share any and all item(s) i may find. Bear in mind that Iam a complete NEWBIE at treasure hunting. So any advice you could give me there would be much appreciated also.
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Post by beale on Jul 17, 2008 17:20:15 GMT -5
hotfoot, You should be able to download the story from "Lost Treasure Magazine" I believe they charge something like $2.95. It is also on the "Links" thread, where I have my CD books for sale. At www.hunteroflosttreasures.comOne of my CD books is titled, "Treasure Tales, Treasures I have searched for." There is a total of fourteen stories on the CD, Pinckneyville is on there as well. The CD is $19.95 postage is included in the continental USA. If you live within 15 minutes of Pinckneyville you live in a very beautiful area of this country. My first trip there was during one of your ice storms--------the cedar and pines were drooped over in that lonely dirt road you spoke of. If you go to where the monument is-------stand in front of it looking towards the Broad River------if you steer towards your right hand about 30 degrees NE (May not be according to compass, I am referring to the front of the monument as facing NORTH) ----go through the power lines towards the knolls on the opposite side-----this is where my brother and I found the cemetery of the soldiers killed in the Battle of Pinckneyville. It wasn't really intended to be a battle-------it just happened that the boys that robbed the gold wagons from Chennault Crossroads, Georgia were passing through Pinckneyville on their way home back to near Kingsport, Tennessee. They fell into an ambush set up for the Yankees that were trying to capture President Jefferson Davis. President Jefferson Davis and Secretary of the Treasury, George Alfred Trenholm crossed on the pontoon bridge three days before the ambush. I better leave some of the rest for you to read. Best of luck. If you go downstream about a mile and one-half you will find where large square sandstones were cut from the river bank. I believe they used the stones to manufacture a Fort Knox Vault at Pinckneyville. It may still be there. Incidentally there was a man by the name of Oregon Dave, he found over $1 million dollars in jewelry, gold and silver coins of which 3,600 were Mexican Silver Dollars. He met a friend in Greenville, SC that helped him count his findings. Oregon Dave sold the cache in Houston, Texas and flew back home. I never did learn Oregon Dave's real name. His friend in Greenville, SC was Jerry Williams. Jerry Williams and friends found wagons from the Charlotte Mint in the woods not to far from that monument of the courthouse. Good Luck.
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Post by kittiedanger on Jan 1, 2011 14:16:29 GMT -5
If anyone is thinking about going to Pinckneyville, be prepared to trek all of your gear in, there is now a rather large gate that a truck will not be able to go around or drive through if you happen to get "locked in there".....like I did....good times....does anyone have any new info on Pinckneyville or the family that lives there that locked the gate? Thanks a bunch!
my email: KittieDanger@gmail.com
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Post by kittiedanger on Jan 1, 2011 17:07:04 GMT -5
I just purchased the article on Pinckneyville, and it still says pending, PayPal took my $$ but I still don't have access to the article. Hmmm.
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Post by beale on Jan 1, 2011 17:21:31 GMT -5
What article on Pinckneyville are you referring to? I wrote a story for Lost Treasure Magazine entitled, "Pinckneyville, Fort Knox of the Confederacy."
I have it on CD along with 13 other stories that Lost Treasure Magazine have published for me. They now have published 16 and #17 is going to be published in their March 2011 magazine. It is entitled "How to find Confederate Treasure"
I posted about your luck at Pinckneyville but I made a mistake and had to erase it. The landowners in Pinckneyville all decided to have those roads closed they claim due to vandalism but I tend to believe the US Government paid them to have it closed. If you had went down the other gated road, you most likely would not only have gone to jail but you could have been shot with a Thompson Sub-Machine Gun. I believe the CIA or some governmental agency has moved in down there. You can get permission from the Historical Society in Union, SC to go into Pinckneyville to look around take pictures or whatever but you will have to walk from the gate roung trip is about 2 to 2 and 1/2 miles. I was there only three weeks ago and located a worked gold mine that had not operated since 1842. Maybe the people at the other gate are mining gold, titanium or even uranium? But if they are selling sand as their contract and license claim they have wasted and dumped 3 million metric tons into the Broad River. Go to Google Earth to confirm. albert
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Post by kittiedanger on Jan 1, 2011 18:27:48 GMT -5
I purchased the article Fort Knox of the Confederacy, but it still says pending.
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Post by beale on Jan 2, 2011 5:58:25 GMT -5
Companies are slow, it has to go through all the paperwork. They will most likely send you the story, it should take them about 6 weeks or more. I will try to send you a copy by email.
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Post by beale on Jan 2, 2011 8:39:29 GMT -5
I emailed you a copy earlier this morning. Enjoy. Albert
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Post by kittiedanger on Jan 4, 2011 23:33:58 GMT -5
Very interesting article! I hope to go back sometime in the near future in the daytime to take some more pics, etc. I will see if we can't get permission from Union County, w/the mess that is going on in their Town Hall it might take a while.....lol!
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Post by beale on Mar 25, 2011 19:32:55 GMT -5
There are some old KGC maps on the Internet. Also in the book, Shadow of the Sentinel. One of the maps looks like a hand-drawn map of the Pinckneyville area. If it is there are tons of treasure buried in this area. I have not gotten back down that way to check it out. One mentions about 12 or 13 jenny loads of gold. Another is on the inlet between the Pacolet and Broad Rivers exactly where President Jefferson Davis crossed the Broad River. maybe then again maybe not? Albert
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