Pottsville Cowhouse Creek Indian Mound Cache — Hamilton County

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Pottsville Cowhouse Creek Indian Mound Cache — Hamilton County

Lost Treasure TX • Hamilton County County
Description
Pottsville legend of a cache near prehistoric Indian burial mounds on Cowhouse Creek — where Hamilton County folklore imagines unrecovered pioneer or mound-country specie.
Historical Notes
At least five Indian burial mounds were documented on the banks of Cowhouse Creek about 3½ miles from Pottsville. Waco, Tawakoni, Tonkawa, and Comanche peoples traveled or raided through the Hamilton County frontier before permanent Anglo settlement accelerated after 1854. Pottsville on Cowhouse Creek was named for settler John S. Potts, who arrived in 1872. Regional treasure guides and Frontier Times-era Hamilton County articles pair mound-country folklore with lost-camp and settler-strongbox variants along western Hamilton County creeks. Coordinates mark Pottsville at the junction of Farm roads 218 and 2842 in western Hamilton County.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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