Onion Creek Treasure — Del Valle

The Austin Weekly Statesman (January 20, 1887) published a treasure notice placing a cache about 18 feet from Onion Creek in the Del Valle area southeast of Austin. Del Valle grew along the old Austin–Bastrop road and the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad. Onion Creek flows through southeastern Travis and northern Hays counties before joining the Colorado River. The 1887 notice is typical of post–Reconstruction era "lost hoard" advertisements and newspaper treasure tales that fueled Austin's 1890s digging frenzy along Shoal Creek and other waterways. Coordinates approximate the Del Valle / Onion Creek corridor. Private land and park boundaries apply — historical legend only.