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RELICS, COINS, & JEWELRY

Vermont has a rich history of early settlements - the perfect spot for an energetic relic hunter!  Here's a few 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

LOST TREASURE

As in other areas of the US, there are several tales of lost treasure in Vermont 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. 

• One does not usually associate Spanish explorers and expeditions with the Green Mountain State, but Tom Penfield (1952) told of two treasures buried by Spaniards, one of gold on the slopes of Ludlow Mountain.
• One often sought "treasure" is the original wooden mint building used by Reuben Harmon and his associates in the coining of Vermont coppers circa 1785-1786. In the 1960s, when poking around Pawlet in search of clues, I was shown not one but two candidates for the structure, both moved from the original site along a brook. Too bad that Sylvester S. Crosby (Early Coins of America, 1875, p. 90) gives a fairly detailed account of the building's loss when it collapsed in a windstorm in the winter of 1855-1856.

These excerpts are a sampling from American Coin Treasures and Hoards

References to Find More Treasure in Vermont

• Vermont Atlas & Gazetteer
• Vermont - An Illustrated History - Duffy
• Roadside History of Vermont - Jennison
• Hands on the Land- History of the Vermont Landscape - Albers
• VT, 1600-1800 - War & Survival of an Indian People - Calloway
• Put the Vermonters Ahead -1st VT BDE in the Civil War -Parsons
• Vermont African-Americans in the Civil War - Fuller

Vermont Metal Detecting Leads

• Historic Vermont Maps - Quad Index ~ Town Index ~ Image Map
• Vermont Grids - Use this tool to document the location of your finds!
• Lost Treasure - Vermont State Treasure Tale of the Month
• Dale's Vermont Treasures - Metal Detecting in New England
• L. Champlain Maritime Museum VT Marine Archeology
• Online Maps of Vermont - Collection Index
• Ghost Towns.com  - Premier Ghost Town Site
• More State Tales - On Lost Treasure USA!!

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