Fairfield-Hampton Connecticut - Treasure Hunting

Just east of the present day town of fairfield lies the site of a famous battle of 1637 1637. the colonists defeated the piqua and it was the final battle in the pequod war now the pequot war was an offensive war against the piqua tribe ordered by the general court in hartford on may 1st 1637 the pequots were originally from hudson valley in new york the mohawks also from new york and who were friendly with the pequot in earlier times sided with the colonists and i think this was the determine that determined the outcome because mohawks are very fierce warriors and they actually killed the uh sasukus which who is the chief descender the sahan during that time of piquants and um also over 600 uh members of the tribe from the fort fled but were overtaken in this town by the english this was a native american village site called ankaway this fertile valley was settled by the europeans who returned after the area was discovered by the military who went uh through here chasing the piquates to sasquatch swamp which was the final battle of the pique war this war ended in 1637. though there is a marker explaining this event the swamp uh is completely filled today but still the area is worth exploring in 1888 george hockley found five large caches of gold and silver coins all dating 1795 at the beach near penfield penfield reef this treasure is said to be from a pirate ship that landed or wrecked here in 1882 in 1931 documents were discovered that reported pirates did take cracks and buried them on the beach near penfield reef the penfield reef lighthouse constructed in 1874 is part of the national register of historic places this reef is considered one of the most treacherous areas of western long island sound and numerous shipwrecks have occurred there have have happened

now so even though the chests were found there's always possibility for some spillovers for something else so do explore that area as well of course in 1658 this tag bridge tribe tribe attacked the tunxis tribes fort in farmington at little meadow on the east side on the farmington river many native american artifacts have been found here which include arrowheads war axes one pump beads and stone bottles

if you enjoyed this program please subscribe like it and share it gulat fort is the site of a bloody bottle during king philip's world litis island is not really an island but during flood stages there is water all around the area creating an island so the ladies island is the side of that bottle in june 1777 the british were repulsed from the area by the colonists again i don't have to explain to you why this place is so valuable to explore

blackbeard

or a teach the famous pirate is said to have buried treasure in hampton in a granite wall in 1938 a man named katie c-a-d-y owned property in the horde's valley section called the jewett homestead a stranger came to his home named barney reynolds and told a strange tale he said that he was the direct descendant of the captain edward teach also known as blackbeard he said that he had a map that told of blackbeard's treasure buried here it was under a stone shaped like a horse head followed a southeast line across the road to a boulder that looked like a dog's head the map then pointed south across a brook to the fish carved on the stone which looked directly at the treasure side he would do all the work if caddy would pay for the equipment to dick carly agreed but all but all he saw was a pit dog and nothing else reynolds disappeared forever it is possible that blackbeard anchored off new london unloaded his ship and walked north on the nipmuck trail perhaps to evade pursuers cuddy's home was just off the mipmak trail a place where many paths intersected however if reynolds found the gold he certainly did not share it

now there is a sleeping giant state park in hampden in hampden h-a-m-d-e-n also known as blue hills or mount carmel is made of five ridges of brownstone a red hued sandstone complete with bound and abundant mind and lots of rattlesnake so be very careful if you've mentioned that area the entire area is a geologist geologist treasure trove greenstone have been found here the quarries have actually dramatically reduced the height of the mountain the largest copper copper deposit ever found just one piece was near mount carmo in 1790 it was 90 pounds and was attached to the rock by metal strands in 1912 queering was started on the giant's head public outrage at the destruction caused the acquiring to stop in 1933.

now let's move on to the city of hartford phillips war in 1735 a small number of tribe members from pagasset ankova's and put attack formed a village along the house atonic river called shak hikoki s-c-h-a-j i'm sorry s s c h a g h i c o k e in kent

which was about 400 acres at the foot of the mountain molly fischer can be found here she was born in sin 1750 and some called her a witch on the west side of the road about three miles south of kent there is a mountain called lane's hill and this is where the rock lies this rock was dropped here by the glacier and it is made of pure white quartz it is 12 feet long and nine feet wide six feet high it does appear that this rack was used as a fireplace at one time on the south east side of the rock are several characters cut deeply into the stone these are man-made not nature but no one knows what they mean or who carved them molly fisher was said to always visit this place to look for kids buried treasure chests it is said that one has to be absolutely silent if any sound is made one will never find the gold a man did find the treasure once but spoke a word and the treasure disappeared forever those who visited the area said they smelled brimstone there is no natural reason for this smell to occur here

cant falls cant falls is one of the marble valley waterfall sites bulls bridge is also found here it is one of the few covered bridges left in connecticut there is an iron mine and forge in the area the oak timbers can still be seen on the forge brook at the entrance to macedonia park they all was transported up the mountain to the forge by horseback there is a kind of a ghost town here it is near the kabul brook farm area in 1739 there was a settlement at the falls on kabul brook containing a forge tannery cider mill gristmill falling mill sawmill two churches school general store trading post butcher shop blacksmith shop brickyard animal pound berrygram burial ground and peregrine all are gone today killingly is a native american battlefield the native american name was aspinak skeletons were found from a narragansen and nip much bottle of a who would fish lamprey eels that came here at some time

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