James Callahan Blanco River Settlement Specie — Blanco County

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James Callahan Blanco River Settlement Specie — Blanco County

Lost Treasure TX • Blanco County County
Description
Blanco River legend of pioneer specie from Captain James Hughes Callahan's 1854 homestead — among the first permanent Anglo settlements on the river that gave the county its name.
Historical Notes
Captain James Hughes Callahan first visited the Blanco River country on Indian campaigns, returned in 1853 with Eli Clemens Hinds, and both built homes on the river in 1854. Callahan was a partner in the Pittsburg Land Company that laid out Pittsburg and helped organize Blanco County in 1858. Pioneer-ranch specie caches appear throughout Hill Country guidebooks wherever stockmen handled cash far from county-seat banks during Comanche frontier years. Callahan later led the Callahan Expedition into Mexico in 1855. Coordinates approximate the Blanco River bottomland near downtown Blanco, south of Johnson City on US Highway 281.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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