place to check out in north georgia

[amos316]

During the Civil War when Union General Sherman overran the area, Captain John Felton buried an iron pot containing $50,000 in gold and silver coins somewhere on his 1,800-acre farm located about 2 ½ miles N of Cartersville on hwy. 411. After the cache was made, the family fled to Macon for the duration of the War. When Felton returned, he was unable to locate the cache and it was never recovered. The story of the treasure has been a family legend for 4 generations and although searches have been made over the years, it was never recovered. i got ahold of a old book that had a in dept story on this so im doing my research and going back

 

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[Tim]

It's buried under Hwy. 41 I read in one of the books. You wonder what those old gold coins would be worth today. Lots of lost gold in North Georgia. It could be in any bodies backyard. I have learned to always keep my detector on even when I get so tired I can't hardly make it back to the truck. i have found more by accident than I'll ever find on porpose. Try your own backyard. Good luck! Tim

 

[HAVE DETECTOR WILL TRAVEL]

I live in the area if you head up that way and need an extrta detectorist, give me a shout.

 

[usarose]

It's buried under Hwy. 41 I read in one of the books. You wonder what those old gold coins would be worth today. Lots of lost gold in North Georgia. It could be in any bodies backyard. I have learned to always keep my detector on even when I get so tired I can't hardly make it back to the truck. i have found more by accident than I'll ever find on porpose. Try your own backyard. Good luck! Tim

Tim
Please share - What book are you referring to? So many out there.
Rob

 

[brie-z]

We were up in Cartersville recently. Lake Allatoona is so low and prime for md-ing. i wish i had more than a few days to look around. Unfortunately, it's because of a water shortage, which I hope ends up alright. Most entrances were closed, but the one off sr 20 was beautiful, and a short walk to the boat ramp. If anyone finds anything cool around there, post it. I would love to see.

 

[cliffscot]

Hey becareful MDing lake Altoona the park rangers ran me off Laneir checking out some of the closed boat ramps. I was finding a host of junk and they surprised me wanting to know what I had found.

 

[TreasureHunterCraig]

Corp of Engineers property (Lake Allatoona/Lanier) are generally off limits for MDing Best bet would be private beach/campground areas.

 

[gametalman52]

Corp of Engineers regs, MDing in beach areas only. Which with the water so low you can still get to areas that are normally underwater as I have in Lanier

 

[brie-z]

Well, good to know, because we're going back in about a month...thank goodness we didn't have a run-in. I try to be on the up-and-up, but sometimes you just stop using that headphone holder as a brain and just think about the TREASURE!!! any suggestions of legit places to go?