French Buried Gold Near Braymer Hill

A French captain is said to have buried a treasure chest at the foot of Braymer Hill about 1759. To mark the spot, he laid a sword across the chest and placed another sword perpendicular to it so only the handle stuck out of the earth. The map noted a beech tree near the burial place. The treasure was not well-known until 1825, when two young daughters of Deliverance Rogers were walking in the meadow between Middle Granville Road and the west foot of the hill, and one of the girls tripped over the sword handle. She pulled the sword out of the ground and, after returning and relating her story, an old Black servant said he had helped bury the chest. They tried to lead him to the approximate location where they thought she pulled the sword out, but couldn’t find it again. In later years, a treasure seeker came searching for the lost French gold on land owned by a farmer named John Henry Prouty (1895-1983), but nothing was ever found. Explore More

The Lost Treasure of Phoenicia

Gangster Dutch Schultz, facing tax trouble and fearing prison, packed a steel chest with cash, jewelry, bonds and gold, then stashed it away somewhere in the Catskills near Phoenicia, New York, before he was killed in 1935. The legend persists because his reportedly delirious last words mentioned “Phoenicia,” “treasure,” and “hidden in the woods.” Explore More