Treasure Hunting Ohio

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RELICS, COINS, & JEWELRY

Ohio has a rich history of early settlements!  Here's a few more ideas to get you started:

• Schools and College Campuses
• Parks / Playgrounds / Picnic Areas
• Foundations, Wells, and Cellar Holes of Old Churches or Houses
• Downtown Construction Sites
• Swimming Holes, Beaches, and Natural Springs
• Camp Grounds, Boy Scout Camps, WPA Camps, and Mining Camps
• Sports Facilities
• Ghost Towns
• Rodeo Arenas, Riding Stables, and Race Tracks
• Old Fair and Carnival Locations
• Old Town Dumpsites

GEMS

Deposits in Ohio produce fine-quality, facet-grade fluorites, celestites, and sphalerites.

LOST TREASURE

As in other areas of the US, there are several tales of lost treasure in Ohio concerning caches buried for safety.  In many of these stories, people either died or forgot where they buried the stash.  Contributing factors include:  

    1.  Federal laws making possession of gold illegal in the early 1900s

    2.  Distrust of banks during the Great Depression. 

• The Bridge family pot of gold was buried near Eaton, Preble County, in the early nineteenth century and has never been recovered.
• At Rockford, Mercer County, loot of bank robbers has been found, but more is believed to be in the area.

These excerpts are a sampling from American Coin Treasures and Hoards

References to Find More Treasure in Ohio

• Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer
• OH Historical Atlas 1788-1980
• Gold Prospecting in Ohio 
• The Tuscarawas Valley 1750-1797 - Original Journals and Old Maps
• Untold Stories of Morgan's Raid into OH in the Civil War 
• The Ohio Frontier - 1720-1830 
• Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800 
• Experience and Memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley 
• History, Politics, and the Battle of Chickamauga 

Ohio Metal Detecting Leads

• Ghost Towns.com  - Premier Ghost Town Site of Ohio
• Forgotten Ohio
• Ohio Grids - Use this tool to document the location of your finds!
• Lost Treasure - Ohio State Treasure Tale of the Month
• Tim's Metal Detecting Page - East OH Metal Detectorist
• Civil War Contour Map of OH Online - Click on Map Legend
• Another Civil War Battle Map of Ohio - At your disposal
• Ohio Gold Prospector
• Online Maps of Ohio - Collection Index

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     Information posted is from various United States Geologic Service (USGS) material and the Gold Prospectors Association of America ( GPAA) Mining Guide.