Treasure Hunting in Connecticut- Watertown Leathermans Cave Bartletts Reef Coburn island Wallingford

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Sitting on a secure Bitcoin network is a podcast version of 'Treasure Revealed' https://tribes.sphinx.chat/t/treasurerevealed Watertown this is the side of leatherman's cave located on matata trail this cave was inhabited by the letterman to be jules borglain named because he dressed in 60 pounds of leather he could endlessly walk 365 mile loop between the connecticut and hudson rivers it is said that he walked over 360 times between 1858 and 1889 only resting in caves along the way he died in a sawmill woods cave in sing new york it is said that he hunts all the caves where he stayed this cave is found about two miles southeast of black rock state park on route 6. it is also said that he buried over 50 000 in one of his resting caves in march 1779 the american frigate defends a patient for general washington's army sang four miles of caution reef now known as bartlett's reef near waterford with over two hundred thousand dollars in gold and silver another of captain kids treasure might be buried under a large rock in clinton on coburn's island near hamonasset beach a letterman cave can also be found here about one mile and a half west of the railroad station between nod road and the trucks wallingford wallingford is the site of a native american burlier burial ground and artifacts have been found here which include cowling pipes auto points and hide scrapers green farms was an early colonial settlement that no longer exists found in westport in fairfield county the green farms area was called matchamax meaning paradise by the native americans there is a stone here called marc shanmax boulder where petroglyphs recorded the history of this place during its haiti there were about 200 buildings here the settlement was totally destroyed on july 9 1779 by the british in the raiding force led by the governor william tyron he was on his way to burn and destroy danbury and landed at campo beach there were two skirmishes here one just south of camp road there is a marker on that spot and the other one at the hawthorne inn also can be found with a marker tar rock on the compo road was used as a signal place during the revolutionary war they would have tar on the rock and lighted on fire the smoke and fire would be used as signal what the treasure seeker needs to remember is that the course of the connecticut river and really all rivers at one time or another changed in the late 17th century due to what is called the great flood they shifted the river deepened in the east and the great band that was here with an island in the middle called wright's island or manha nuke is now completely underwater the area became weathersfield cove man hanukk is a native american word of this region meaning the island place or great laughing place or place of great merrymaking apparently it was considered a fun place to be the river was wide and deep enough on both sides of the island so the ship could navigate on both sides where warehouse cove is now were once streets where people and warehouses existed if you enjoyed this program please like it subscribe it and share it there is a street that is now basically under this cove called 4th street created with this flooding and the great meadow in the area was reshaped wettersfield cove was created with this flooding and the great meadow in the area was reshaped which is the the native american term hokanam what they named the metal here came from then it flowed south passing naobak south glastonbury and rocky hill another island disappeared during the great flood called pennywise this island was found in a river just over the wettest field line in hartford other names for this island were long coals or standish island it is now a long narrow knoll in hartford south meadow the wettest field in glastonbury line was the curse of the river and it forever changed during the spring flood when the river flooded created the great swamp most of which has dried up now but when the flood first occurred it created --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/treasure-revealed/support