A good story

[aarthrj3811]

A good story..
Just wanted to pass this story on to you Art. I thought if you find anything at this site,you could pass it on to a good friend or perhaps even your son. I can't go there to hunt myself,since I don't presently have a valid passport & this island belongs to the State of New York. This property is owned by an organization called The Bridge Authority. I'm sending some info to you about it,a map of Heart Island & also here's the story about the cache. At the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in Lake Ontario lies Hart Island. Built on this tiny strip of land is the fabulous Boldt's Castle and hidden somewhere on the grounds or in the woods of this small estate is a cache of treasure attributed to Basil Hyde-Stafford, descendant of British aristocracy. It consists of a fortune in emerald gems and jewelry, miniature English antiques, goblets, dinnerware, rare coins, family heirlooms and rare jade carvings from India, all contained in a medium-sized trunk. The cache was made in the early 1900s and has never been found even though many diligent searches have been conducted. If you do find something on the island,it would be worth someone's while to contact them for permission to dig. There has been previous attempts at it,but not sure if the present owners owned it at the time or not. Hope this works out for someone. Bye for now!

 

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[10claw]

very good story art, thanks for posting. maybe someone can get to it. just a little too far from the gulf of Mexico for me.

 

[aarthrj3811]

I have done a few maps for this guy….He like to research legends….I enjoy doing maps of legends..So we are both enjoying it…Art

 

[widomanmx]

Search "Boldt Castle" in google-earth
.. its in New York, USA
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a public site? or private?

 

[WarToy]

Hi Gang,
I have been here several times as I live in Bath, Ontario not to far away on the Canadian side and the Thousand Islands is a magical place. Worth a visit if you ever have the opportunity to see this area. The Thousand Islands was the play ground for the rich and famous at the turn of the century which included families like Singer, Pullman, Remington.
I believe it would be difficult to get permission to use a metal detector there as it is full of tourists all day. It also has a customs office as it is very close to the Canadian border on the US side. The Castle was never finished and abandoned by Bolt in 1904 but is undergoing completion by the money made off the tourists entry fee to the island It has significantly changed for the better since the Bridge Authority acquired and started the renovations in 1977. FYI this was built by George Bolt who discovered Thousand Island Dressing and made famous at his hotel the Waldorf-Astoria. I was informed that this island had to be shaped when George Built it as he wanted it to be in the shape of a heart for his beloved. Not much land to bury anything on to tell you the truth as it is mostly taken up by walkways and buildings.
As I can't seem to find no Hyde nor Hair (pun intended) of a one Mr. Basil Hyde-Stafford of British aristocracy or otherwise, I would suspect that the only True Treasure from that island is the legend of the Thousand Island dressing itself. Since this island had been abandoned from 1904 to 1977. the locals had the run of the place and I am sure many a story must have been told around drunken camp fires on the island. Great Story but not likely is my call.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boldt

 

[aarthrj3811]

Treasure Hunting amounts to the enjoyment that you receive from doing it. Old stories are very interesting. Most of them are true but names of places have changed and may be many miles from places that now have the same old names.
My First Treasure Find…..

Two years ago I was invited to an 85th birthday party for a fellow worker. I had worked with him back in the 60’s and 70’s. His son was telling me some of his family history. His great grand parents had come from Prussia and had died on the way to Sacramento. But their four children had survived. He told me how they had buried their live savings and given the map to the children because they didn’t trust the people in the wagon train.
He had been looking for the treasure for twenty years and was no closer to finding it than when he started. He showed me a copy of the map and there was only three reference points on it. One was a meadow with the wagon trail going through it. The second was a stream that ran out of the meadow and ran to a pond with an x by three drawn rocks. One was round, the center one was oval with one side at an angle and the third looked like the center rock but in reverse like maybe at one time they were one rock.
What caught my attention was a notation below the pond. It said that the stream went underground. I knew this had to be a translation and could mean a lot of different things I told him about a stream I had fished when I was a kid. It was in the general area and about two miles of it ran under large slabs of shale. I remember catching Black Trout in the openings between the slabs of shale.
We took a weekend last summer and found the stream. You remember when you were young distance didn’t mean as much as you never got tried. We were miles away from where we started. The stream is one of those no name blue lines on the maps. He spent part of this summer researching the wagon trails above.
Up on top where the wagons all came over the summit there is ruts wore in the granite that are still visible today. After they came over the summit there is a lot of routes that could be taken. He soon found that the Official Trail did not go to our stream. He then had two of his grandsons walk up the stream (a long steep rocky climb) until they got to the spring and take a GPS reading. They found no pond on the way up or down.
He called me in September and said he had permission to camp on the ranch so we sat up a base camp.
Two weeks ago we took his Quads up and programmed our GPS and went three and a half miles to the spring. We went down stream for about ½ mile and the stream went under the slate rocks. I looked back up stream and thought to my self that if I were a Beaver this would be a good place to build a dam.
I checked for gold signals and followed the signal and there was the three BOULDERS obscured by the brush. I also had a silver signal to the same spot.
It was buried between three and four feet deep so we decided to let the kids dig the hole some other time.
The Family went up last week and found the remains of an iron box, a few pieces of silver jewelry and $75. They are a happy bunch of people.
What is amazing to me is how fate can bring two pieces of information together. I wish my other project was this easy because I have close to a hundred hours in it and don’t know what the results will be.

Arthur

 

[okiedowser]

Good one art got 3 places.

 

[aarthrj3811]

Good one art got 3 places

That can be expected. A good place to bury treasure can be found by others

 

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