Treasures of the Upper Florida Gulf Coast- Fowlers Bluff

This site is located on the Suwannee River just a few clicks upstream from the Gulf of Mexico on the southern bank. The story goes that the pirate Jean Laffite buried several chests, each containing a small fortune in Gold and other priceless artifacts. At least three large scale recovery attempts have been made at this site, one of these resulted in a sizeable recovery way back in the late 1880's!
The story goes that a kindly owner of a local saw mill stumbled upon an elderly man that was close to death.
He provided the old timer with food and shelter and in return he produced a treasure map to his stunned benefactor. The old timer had claimed that he had first hand knowledge of several different treasure sites as he was a privateer in his younger days. The saw mill owner took the map and started his search in a nearby cypress swamp, eventually coming to a spot near what is now present day Fowler's Bluff. Here he found several very old marked trees, indicating he was in the right spot. He ran back to his saw mill and gathered a large crew of saw mill workers and returned to the site. A short time later after working day and night the crew hit something hard in one of the holes, the saw mill owner paid off the workers and set about finishing the excavation on his own. To this day no one knows exactly what came out of that hole... Click Here to Read more!!