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Lost Dutchman State Park is a 320-acre (129 ha) state park located in northwestern Pinal County, Arizona on the Apache Trail (State Route 88) north of Apache Junction, near the Superstition Mountains in central Arizona. It is named after the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine, a famously lost gold mine legendary in the tales of the Old West.
The Lost Dutchman's is perhaps the most famous lost mine in American history. Arizona place-name expert Byrd Granger wrote, as of 1977, the Lost Dutchman's story had been printed or cited at least six times more often than two other fairly well-known tales, the story of Captain Kidd's lost treasure, and the story of the Lost Pegleg mine in ...
The Peralta Stones are a set of engraved stones suppsedly indicating the location of the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine, in Arizona, United States. The "Dutchman" was actually a German immigrant named Jacob Waltz (c. 1810–1891). [1] The story goes that the stones are named for an obscure "Peralta family", supposedly an old and powerful Mexican family.
The author T.E. Glover in his book, The Lost Dutchman Mine of Jacob Waltz, [citation needed] wrote of a U.S. Cavalry trooper named William Edwards who was present for the discovery of the deceaseds' remains. The Cavalry leaders assumed that these were bodies from an Indian battle between fighting tribes.
The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. A German immigrant claimed he discovered the mine in the 19th century. Many have searched for it and have lost their lives.
Lost Dutchman State Park is located on the western side of the mountain, as is the Goldfield ghost town in modern-day Youngberg. The northern and eastern sides of the mountain consist of very rugged terrain and wilderness. Weavers Needle, popular for rock climbing, is on the east side of the mountain.
Marker at the Monument Row site reads: We bring to a close, We tried to find, We must now impose, Units not found, 748th Tank Battalion, 150th Station Hospital, 538th Ordnance Company, 166th Quartermaster 629th Quartermaster. Erected 2001 by Lost Dutchman Chapter 5917 & ECV, 526th AIB, Bouse Chamber of Commerce. [10] Marker #86 at the site reads:
Jacob "Dutchman" Waltz – Waltz was a German immigrant who in the 19th century discovered a gold mine in Arizona and kept its location a secret, hence the name "Lost Dutchman's Mine". The Lost Dutchman Mine is supposedly located in the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix. Waltz died an itinerant poor farmer on October 25, 1891, at age 81.