Gillespie County Northeastern Gold Digging Hoard — Gillespie County

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Gillespie County Northeastern Gold Digging Hoard — Gillespie County

Lost Treasure TX • Gillespie County County
Description
Northeastern Gillespie County legend of a gold-digging hoard — near the small mining operation Tom Ashworth places about twenty miles north of Fredericksburg toward Enchanted Rock.
Historical Notes
Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache notes a small gold mining operation in northeastern Gillespie County about twenty miles from Fredericksburg, alongside UT Bureau of Economic Geology references and Sandy Creek panning below Enchanted Rock cited in C. F. Eckhardt's "The Lost San Saba Mine." Northeastern Gillespie County lies on the road and trail corridor from Fredericksburg through Crabapple and Willow City to Enchanted Rock. Related gold_site and placer entries document separate Sandy Creek and Llano Uplift sites; this pin records treasure-legend folklore of an unrecovered hoard near the northeastern diggings. Coordinates approximate northeastern Gillespie County ranch country between Crabapple and the Enchanted Rock approach on Ranch Road 965.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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