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Amazing treasure finds in every US state

Treasures from across America
Alabama: gold coins
Alaska: sunken gold
Arizona: the Tucson Crosses
Arkansas: a literary treasure hunt
California: a pot of gold
Colorado: a 13.5lb gold nugget
Connecticut: Revolutionary War items
Delaware: sunken treasures from a shipwreck
Florida: long-lost Spanish gold
Georgia: signs of an ancient homestead
Hawaii: royal treasure
Idaho: a rare silver coin
Illinois: another literary treasure trail
Indiana: 42,000 artifacts and historic bones
Iowa: Devonian fossils
Kansas: long-lost artwork
Kentucky: rare muscle cars
Louisiana: copper and gold ingots
Maine: a bronze medallion
Maryland: hidden gold coins
Massachusetts: a hidden cashbox
Michigan: an 11-carat diamond
Minnesota: pre-Prohibition booze
Mississippi: lost work of a forgotten writer
Missouri: a steamship under a cornfield
Montana: the Dueling Dinosaurs
Nebraska: gold and silver hidden at home
Nevada: gold and silver coins
New Hampshire: Roosevelt dimes and historic half-cents
New Jersey: a pirate's missing fortune
New Mexico: a 10,000-year-old meteorite
New York: Prohibition-era whisky
North Carolina: a shipwrecked gold dredge
North Dakota: a Triceratops skull
Ohio: a woolly mammoth tooth
Oklahoma: a backyard treasure haul
Oregon: Prohibition-era whisky
Pennsylvania: missing gold bars (well – possibly)
Rhode Island: a long-lost pirate's stolen swag
South Carolina: shipwrecked gold coins
South Dakota: a hefty gold nugget
Tennessee: a farmhouse haul
Texas: Bonnie Parker's snake ring
Utah: the location of a long-lost mine
Vermont: a piece(s) of eight
Virginia: historic Spanish shipwrecks
Washington: an historic tattooing tool
West Virginia: a wooden chest of treasures
Wisconsin: coins and rings
Wyoming: a 10oz gold nugget
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Missouri: a steamship under a cornfield

Folklore became reality when a mysterious sunken steamship was discovered under a cornfield in Malta Bend, Missouri.

For generations, tales have been told about ghostly vessels lost at the bottom of the Missouri River. In 1988, Bob Hawley (pictured) and his sons located the steamboat Arabia, which was located 45 feet underground and less than a mile away from the present-day river channel. 

Inside was 200 tons worth of cargo, which had sunk along with the boat back in September 1856. In fact, so much treasure was discovered that the Hawleys founded the Arabia Steamboat Museum in Kansas City and have since collaborated with other treasure hunters in a bid to locate more lost steamships. 

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Alice Cattley

28 November 2023

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