Honey Creek Pioneer Strongbox — Hamilton County

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Honey Creek Pioneer Strongbox — Hamilton County

Lost Treasure TX • Hamilton County County
Description
Hamilton County legend of a pioneer strongbox buried near the original Honey Creek settlement — the mid-1850s site where Hico stood before the Texas Central Railroad moved the town.
Historical Notes
Dr. John R. Alford founded Hico on Honey Creek in the mid-1850s, naming the town for his Kentucky hometown. The original site was abandoned when citizens relocated 2½ miles to the Texas Central line in 1880. Pioneer-cache folklore sometimes places settler specie along Honey Creek and the upper Bosque where early Hamilton County ranchers and cotton farmers worked remote bottomland. Coordinates approximate the original Honey Creek settlement north of present Hico in Hamilton County.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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