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- The British intercepted the small detail, killing eight of the 10 Frenchmen. But not before the French soldiers buried the treasure to keep it out of the hands of their enemy.
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Oct 6, 2022 · The gold would remain unfound for decades, nearly lost and forgotten since the villagers of Minerva had no idea that these French Soldiers had even buried the gold outside of the town.
The treasure was quickly buried and a few clues were planted – an odd rock burrowed into a tree, the picture of a deer carved into another one, stuff like that. Before long, the British were there and said “We want your gold!” The french were like, “No, you can’t have it.”
The legendary “Treasure of The Tuscarawas Trail” amounting to sixteen packhorse loads of gold and silver, removed from Fort Duquesne before its fall in 1758, was thought to have been buried near here by ten French soldiers in charge of it.
The legend of the Lost French Gold comes from local history describing French soldiers burying gold in the Minerva area during a battle on the way to delivering the gold to Fort Detroit. The French Gold seemed to be lost until 1829, when a nephew of one soldiers used the memorandums to retrieve the gold.
Jun 6, 2019 · Just before the fort fell, French troops buried a chest of payroll gold on the island. Years later, a descendant of the French commander in charge of the fort traveled from France to Ogdensburg. He hired a boat to go to the island and find the treasure.
Jun 8, 2018 · A legend sprang up during the years of the French and Indian War, first spread by word of mouth then finally being put to print in an 1875 Ohio newspaper. Apparently there was a shipment of French gold being moved from Fort Duquesne to Fort Detroit.
