Aleman Sheep Ranch Specie Cache — Hamilton County

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Aleman Sheep Ranch Specie Cache — Hamilton County

Lost Treasure TX • Hamilton County County
Description
Aleman legend of a sheep-ranch specie cache in western Hamilton County — when the county counted more than 80,000 sheep during the 1890 wool boom.
Historical Notes
Hamilton County sheep ranching peaked in the 1890s with more than 81,500 sheep reported in 1890. Fence-cutting disputes pitted cattlemen against the growing number of sheep raisers before cotton farming dominated the early twentieth century. Aleman is a western Hamilton County ranch community in the Cowhouse Creek and Pecan Bayou headwaters country near Pottsville. Ranch-payroll and wool-merchant specie caches appear in Central Texas treasure guides for remote prairie trade points. Coordinates approximate Aleman in western Hamilton County southwest of Hamilton.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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