Treasure Hunting in Connecticut Tryons Landing Wilton Windham Windsor Devils Pond Clark Island
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Tyron's landing the first puritans settled here in 1635 prior to six prior to 1640 there was a fort here east of the state prison which is now an apartment house site on north main street it would be very possible to find red space minerals here there have been two documented meteor landings one in 1971 and the other in 1982 there is a boulder that marks the site of a ferry site that crossed from connecticut river from 1674 to 1762 at the junction of marsh ferry and broad streets rare artifacts from a long ego are also found here dinosaur prints also have been discovered in town wilton is another place worth considering for exploring because in april 1770 welton was invaded by the british who were on the way to burn danbury the residents hid the silver and gold all around the area another town very interesting is called windham here residents had to bury the treasures before leaving to escape a raid by the french in 1758 the town was burned to the ground and many of the treasures are still buried the native american name for the area was quick homach which is nip mcword meaning shaking or trembling mountain there was also an ancient village on the fenton river in this area called now west sethunk which is a mohegan ward meaning small fish stream windsor is another place worth considering it was also known as maya tanak or dorchester it is thought that perhaps the vikings sailed up the connecticut river as far as windsor windsor in the year 1000 but no landing site was recorded however bronze viking implements and utensils were found near the enfield rapids and in plymouth metal on the farmington river perhaps there was a battle between the native americans and the vikings when the settlers first arrived these two places seemed taboo to the to the tribes the native american village here was called pacquona and the first satan was known as sheet s-h-e-a-t this was one of the stations that asked the english for help in the war against the piquants in 1631. this request and the constant attacks by the pequot on settlers who were living in connecticut were the main reasons that the massachusetts settlers declared war against the pequot and eventually settled in connecticut ford's will build here in 1637 along the present-day palisado avenue in 1699 there was an old stone fort located about one mile north of congressional meeting house on the east side of the highway there was a native american trail between plymouth meadow in windsor and hartford it was said to be the first public highway used by the settlers there is a body of water called devil's pond devil spawned in the spring of 1758 it was reported by the inhabitants that the unseen demons began to growl and scream from the pond in the middle of the night waking everyone however it was not demons they were making the sound it was mating all frogs however the name of the pawn stayed the same the modern reader must remember that this was a strange completely unknown region to the settlers they were terrified and had no support from where they came from everything was scary and they had nowhere to turn to ask questions or find answers they had to supply their own theories as to why events happen this is the site of a battle in the pequod war it was also a trading post but the settlers were driven out by peak ones however it might be that native americans were living in this area well before the pequots came in 1973 native american artifacts were found from 1 600 era if you enjoy this program please like it subscribe it and share another captain kid buried treasure might be found on an island called klux or clark keys island the story is that kid thought to have traveled the connecticut river and left two chests on his last trip to boston while visiting his friend whiskey clarke or whisking clark the chest the chest were said to be left on clark island and have never been found one of kids ships a sloop called san antonio came ashore with a huge chest bulging with gold witnes --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/treasure-revealed/support
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