Treasure Hunting New York-Erie Canal Treasure Island Ticonderoga Thousand Islands Blenheim Mountain

The Erie Canal, which flows between Buffalo and Albany for 363 miles, was completed in 1825 to connect New York City and the Hudson Valley with the Great Lakes. Remnants of the canal, including its toll stations, maintenance buildings, and locks, still exist today, which still yield precious artifacts and, on occasion, some old coins. Isle Royal, an island off the port of Waddington, Lawrence County, situated on the St. Lawrence River County, is where a French commander buried a treasure before surrendering the fort to the British in 1760. The treasure's value is estimated to range between $10,000 to $100,000. Many silver mines in the eighteenth century were once located along Mouat Utsayantha, Schoharie County's region. The Lost Blenheim Silver Mine is found on the northern side of this mountain. The Patriots sealed it off to deter the British from accessing and profiting from it. A landslide occurred soon afterward, concealing it permanently. Silver Creek is situated by Lake Erie, just around eight miles northeast of Dunkirk (County 59). The creek owes its name to the fact that a substantial number of silver coins washed along its beach after intense storms. It is presumed the coins came from the steamer Atlantic, which carried over $60,000 and sunk in the area in 1852. Some wreckage is also visible on Lake Erie's beach, about four miles northeast of Barcelona, County 60, Chautauqua County. If unconfirmed reports are believed, gold and silver coins have been discovered in this same area. The steamer City of Detroit, which was carrying more than $200,000 in gold and silver coins, as well as a substantive cargo of copper ingots, sank here in 1873. Storms and strong currents have washed some of the steamer's remains and cargo ashore. Dean Richard, a steamer ship, sank near Jerusalem Cors' shore on Lake Erie, around ten miles south of Buffalo. A storm destroyed the ship and cast ashore its remains and cargo, which included $191,000 in gold and silver coins, burying them in the beach's sands. Grand Island is located in the middle of the Niagara River between Buffalo and Niagara Falls. It is said to be the site where an affluent French merchant named Clairieux had some kegs containing eighteenth-century coins buried close to his house and store. The site is also home to several ruins of colonial buildings. A cache of gold and silver coins dating from the sixteenth century was found close to a round stone building's ruins in 1888. It is believed that some French raiders buried around fifteen treasure chests in secret locations on this island during the French and Indian wars. On the Lake Erie shore, east of Port Colborne by about half a mile, in County 58 in Ontario, Canada, considerable amounts of American gold coins have been found, including remains of a wrecked steamship. It is presumed that they are of the Anthony Wayne, a steamer that sank here in 1850 and carried more than $100,000 in gold and silver coins. This site can be reached by heading ten miles due west of Buffalo. Wilbur Rogers' farm, about two miles west of Warsaw Village, State 20A, Wyoming County, is where the present owner's father buried gold coins priced at around $43,000 during the Depression. Montezuma Swamp, situated close to Seneca, County 96, Seneca County, is reported as the site where Loomis outlaw gang buried around $40,000. The Sulphur Spring Treasure is reputed to have been buried close to the ruins of Sulphur Health Resort, between the villages of North Pitcher and Pitcher County 26, Chenango County, by a traveling medicine man circa 1900. Several years ago, some gold coins were discovered in this region; however, they are of recent origin. Some silver coins and chinaware fragments were found on a beach after storms four miles south of Oswego on Lake Ontario, Oswego County, close to S.U.N.Y. College's campus. In 1803, the Lady Washington, a merchant ship, was wrecked here while carrying precious cargo and is presumed the source of th