Navidad River Lost Lead Mine — Cox Creek

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Navidad River Lost Lead Mine — Cox Creek

Lost Treasure TX • Jackson County County
Description
Jackson County Civil War legend of a "lost lead mine" near Cox's Creek on the Navidad River — folklore tied to Confederate lead mining and blockade-runner payrolls in the Victoria–Edna corridor.
Historical Notes
Jackson County historical markers note that during the Civil War the county furnished salt from Cox's Creek beds, hides, tallow, and lead from a Navidad mine "now a lost mine." Home manufactures sent bullets and cloth to Confederate forces. Lost-mine tales often merge with buried-payroll folklore. TreasureNet coastal_cat12 threads tie the Navidad–Lavaca river strip to Spanish artifacts and sunken gunboats chased from Lavaca Bay. Coordinates approximate Cox's Creek and the upper Navidad basin northeast of Victoria. Private ranch land.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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