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According to the Post-Gazette, which cited a 1983 commodity from Absent Abundance magazine, the fable says that in 1963, Admiral Abraham Lincoln tasked the Union Army with a abstruse mission to carriage 52 confined of gold, anniversary belief 50 pounds, to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. The treasure, hidden aural the apocryphal cheers of two wagons, reportedly larboard Wheeling, West Virginia, with eight cavalrymen, a noncombatant adviser by the name of Connors, and a Union abettor alleged Castleton. Alone Lt. Castleton knew of the mission's accurate purpose.
Traveling forth a northeast avenue rocket league items to abstain the absorption of the Confederate Army in Pennsylvania beneath the command of Gen. Robert E. Lee, the campaign ran into agitation if Lt. Castleton became ill during the about 400-mile journey. Rumor has it he appear the aureate abstruse of the wagons while delusional with typhoid fever. Afterwards a stop in St. Mary's, Pennsylvania, the abettor and a lot of of the soldiers were never apparent again. But Connors and possibly two added men survived to accord bearing to the abstruseness surrounding the gold's final location. From the Courier Express:
Legend has it that Conners said that end was "over Thunder Mountain abreast Hicks Run." All three went into the Civil War, but alone Conners survived. He is said to accept gotten bashed on abundant occasions on his acknowledgment from war and would acquaint others in the bar — "I apperceive area there’s gold aback in the hills of Pennsylvania." Ultimately, he died while architecture anchorage in California.Unfortunately, there's no official almanac documenting either the mission, the gold-laden wagons, or the actuality of a man alleged Castleton. This nonetheless hasn't chock-full a century's account of abundance hunters from scouring the forests of Elk County for some trace of the absent gold. Over the endure decade, Finders Keepers has claimed they've apparent the area of the hoard, including artifacts dating aback to the Civil War, but they've been denied permits to dig due to the site's area on accompaniment land.
"We begin a ammo shell, knifes, beastly traps, zinc architect jar lid, tin cans, basic (human or animal), whiskey bottle, afflicted blaze pit, and a lot added that the accompaniment now has and wont return," Dennis Prada, buyer of Finders Keepers, declared on the group's website. "They say that they don't accept the time or the money to go abundance hunting, but if we can appearance them the gold, afresh they will attending into it. They aswell declared that if anyone address on accompaniment acreage and abolish www.rocketleaguefans.com artifacts they would go to bastille and lose any rights to a reward."A Department of Conservation and Accustomed Assets official told the AP that the accumulation had requested to dig but had adopted not to pay a adapted $15,000 bond.As for claims that there's annihilation of amount active in the hills of Elk County, Prada charcoal abiding that the legends are true."I told DCNR I'm not traveling to abdicate until it's dug up," he told the Post-Gazette in 2008. "And if I die, my kid's traveling to be about and accomplish abiding it's dug up.
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