Below is a story that was printed about the lost treasure of Long John Silver. I found a few things that could have been part of the treasure and placed it close to where the orginal treasure might have been. Who knows, this could be part of the famous treasure. Enjoy your hunt.
Buried treasure
By JOHN FRIEDLEIN
Sunday, October 28, 2007 7:26 PM CDT
Author says clues seem to show “X' marking Kentucky Draw an "X" between the central Kentucky towns of Eastview, Westview, Centerview and Grandview, and the lines will intersect near the tiny community of Hudson.
Using old maps, trace the route of Silver Mine Road from Sonora, and it apparently leads to Hudson.
Coincidence? Perhaps not, says author Robert A. Prather, who believes the hilly countryside near the Breckinridge-Hardin county line may hide buried treasure - a legendary stash that, in fact, could have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island."
While Prather's theory sounds fanciful, he's researched it and published his findings in the newly released book, "The Strange Case of Jonathan Swift and the Real Long John Silver."
As the fable goes, a man named Jonathan Swift mined silver - some say in Kentucky - and left behind what his mules couldn't carry out. But when he came back for it later, he nearly was blind and couldn't find it.
The legend widely circulated in the 1800s, drawing a horde of fortune seekers.
Prather began his quest to sort out fantasy from reality a few years ago with the question: "Is there any fire to the old smoke that's been around for over 200 years?"
He managed to find a real Jonathan Swift, a wealthy merchant from Alexandria, Va., who in the years following the American Revolution owned property in Kentucky, including the area that later would become Hudson. Swift also had tall ships and a family connection to both pirating and mining.
This Swift, however, lived a little later than the Swift legend based on journal entries, but Prather thinks these writings may have been embellished or partly falsified, possibly to throw silver seekers off track.
More in line with the legend are landmarks - guideposts to the treasure - in and around Swift's property, a 21,000-acre tract straddling Breckinridge and Hardin counties. For instance, the tale mentions a remarkable rock at the convergence of three streams. Prather has found in the area two impressive formations - Sand Knob and a rock that looks like an oversized haystack - near Licking Creek, Rough River and the North Fork of Rough River.
Then there are the "view" towns. The eastern part of Swift's property is visible from Eastview, the western part from Westview, the northern part from Grandview (grand as in a perspective from the top of a map or compass), and much of it can be seen from Centerview, just to the south of the tract.
Could these towns point - like a skeleton's finger - to the booty of "Treasure Island?"
The Scottish-born Stevenson may have heard the Swift silver mine legend as a boy - or he could have learned about it from his wife, whose first husband, a Louisvillian, purportedly owned one of Swift's journals.
Prather also provides evidence that Stevenson based the character, Long John Silver, on Swift. For one thing, there's the silver connection. For another, their initials are the same - J.S. - and their first names are similar.
Also, Swift hung out with a thug named Flint, the name of a ruffian in "Treasure Island."
After compiling a book's worth of such clues and complex codes, Prather concludes: "Treasure Island is Kentucky."
The cache is a large ammo box
Follow trails to the cache, there is no need to cross the railroad tracks.
This cache placed and maintained by a member of Geocky, InKy and the Heartland Geocachers
