Old Camp Place Confederate Gold Twenty Thousand — Ouachita Parish

The Rocker Box Ouachita Parish compilation records that $20,000 in gold was buried by Confederates fleeing Union soldiers at or near Old Camp Place. Local tradition places the antebellum stage stop on the highway west of the Ouachita River twin cities. TreasureNet detectorists in West Monroe list two separate gold and silver burial stories tied to Old Camp Place, matching published Louisiana cache anthologies cited on The Rocker Box (Buried Treasures You Can Find). Old Camp Place was built around 1855 as a stop on the old stagecoach road through northeast Louisiana. Coordinates mark the Cypress Street / U.S. 80 corridor in the Old Ten section west of downtown West Monroe. Private property — legend only.