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Excavation work on Oak Island during the 19th century. The Oak Island mystery is a series of stories and legends concerning buried treasure and unexplained objects found on or near Oak Island in Nova Scotia. Since the 18th century, attempts have been made to find treasure and artifacts.
Gilbert Dayton Hedden, Sr. (April 6, 1897 – September 14, 1974) was an American industrialist, politician and treasure hunter. He was Mayor of Chatham Borough, New Jersey from 1934 to 1938 [1] and is most notable today for his role in investigating the Oak Island mystery, described as the costliest treasure hunt ever.
Dan Henskee: One of only three Oak Island treasure hunters who have been searching the island for several decades. He initially came to the island to help Dan Blankenship in his search. Charles Barkhouse: An Oak Island historian who also acts as a tour guide for Oak Island Tours, the company that owns most of the island. Charles is a freemason.
Pirates burying treasure was a rare occurrence, with the only known instance being William Kidd, who buried some of his wealth on Gardiners Island. The myth of buried pirate treasure was popularized by such 19th-century fiction as Wolfert Webber, The Gold-Bug, and Treasure Island. The idea of treasure maps leading to buried treasure is ...
On the track of a treasure : the story of an adventurous expedition to the Pacific island of Cocos in search of treasure of untold value hidden by pirates, London : Hurst and Blackett, 1904. Chapter XIV—A monarch of all he surveys : p 230-246; PBS Online - Nova Legends and Lore. Reagen Smith - A history of buried treasure on Coco's Island.
The geology of Oak Island was first mapped in 1924 by J. W. Goldthwait of the Geological Survey of Canada, who interpreted the island as a composite of four drumlins. [8] These drumlins are "elongated hills" which consist of multiple layers of till resting on bedrock and are from different phases of glacial advance that span the past 75,000 ...
The proposal calls for 1,697 homes, commercial sites, two elementary schools, three parks, an equestrian center, and an area zoned for light industry, as well as measures to protect the oak tree.
Frederick G. Nolan (July 5, 1927 – June 4, 2016) was a Canadian land surveyor as well as a known Oak Island treasure hunter. He appeared on the History Channel 's TV series about the island, The Curse of Oak Island , in episodes 7 and 8 of season 3.