Benavides Kinney-Cazneau Trail Payroll — Duval County

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Benavides Kinney-Cazneau Trail Payroll — Duval County

Lost Treasure TX • Duval County County
Description
Benavides legend of a lost payroll or trade specie cache along the Corpus Christi–Laredo road that Henry Lawrence Kinney and William Leslie Cazneau cut through Duval County in 1848.
Historical Notes
In 1848 Henry Lawrence Kinney and William Leslie Cazneau cut a road from Corpus Christi to Laredo that passed through San Diego and the future Freer area. Benavides, on State Highway 339 twenty-three miles southeast of Freer, sits on that historic trade corridor. Duval County was formed in 1858 from parts of Nueces, Live Oak, and Starr counties. Spanish land grants at San Diego de Arriba and San Diego de Abajo anchored sheep ranching that made the county the leading sheep producer in the United States by the early 1880s. Coordinates mark Benavides in southeastern Duval County on the Kinney-Cazneau corridor.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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