Zion Historical Society announced that its long-awaited publication on the Dents Run Lost Gold Shipment is currently in the process of being printed and will be release sometime in March. Perhaps there is gold hidden in the hills….perhaps we will never know? I am certain new searches and theories will surface from time to time. Tales such as this keep the interest of many for years. In recent years, additional searches have yielded no new discoveries. According to Burke, Schall claims the man showed him the gold bar, which he took out of a canvas basket. Marys drinking establishment, who said he kept a bar of gold under his bed. During his stint in the region, he is said to have met a man in a St. Moving forward, to the 1990s, Burke said a man named Jack Schall came to the region to do studies on elevation marker accuracy for the government. After some of the detectives left the agency, they were said to have spent the rest of their lives in the area looking for the rest of the gold. He is said to have gotten drunk on numerous occasions on his return from war and would tell others in the bar - “I know where there’s gold back in the hills of Pennsylvania.” Ultimately, he died while building roads in California.Īnother part of the story Burke found in searching for the gold is that when a company was surveying the Elk and Cameron county lines when Cameron branched out on its own, seven skeletons were found in the hollow of Bell Draft, near the tributary of Hicks Run.Īt that time (circa the late 1800s-early 1900s), the Pinkerton Detective Agency came to the area and lore has it that 3.5 gold bars were found. Legend has it that Conners said that end was “over Thunder Mountain near Hicks Run.” All three went into the Civil War, but only Conners survived. Legend has it that Conners and two other unnamed men walked out before the wagon train met its storied end. There are 10 said to have been in the train in total and not all of them have been accounted for. ![]() Other characters on the trip were a man known as O’Rourke, who was a ruthless character, as well as a man known as Conners. Castleton is said to have come down with typhoid fever and in his delusion, divulged the secret of what the wagon train was carrying somewhere around its last stop in St. His story is that three men came out of the gold train alive. Zion Historical Society, has a story pieced together over many years. ![]() Jim Burke, a resident of Elk County and member of the Mt. It is stated that the wagons and dead soldiers were found later but not the gold. Marys but that was the last time it was seen. The story continues to state that the Wagon Train made it to St. The wagon trains route was to travel northeast through Pennsylvania to Ridgway and then head southeast to Harrisburg. ![]() Legends states that a Union wagon train left Wheeling, West Virginia with 52 bars of gold, each weighing 50 pounds, which were meant to pay Union soldiers. ![]() Federal Agents searching for “something” within a large secured area brought the Legend of the Lost Gold of Dents Run back into the media spotlight in 2019.
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