Spring Stage Road Outlaw Payroll

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Spring Stage Road Outlaw Payroll

Lost Treasure TX • Harris County County
Description
North Houston legend of silver coins and payroll strongboxes buried along the Navasota Stage Road through Old Town Spring — a nineteenth-century freight trace now beneath the boardwalk district.
Historical Notes
Old Town Spring preserves the alignment of the Navasota Stage Road, which moved cotton, mail, and specie between Gulf ports and inland farms before railroads dominated. Confederate payroll runners and teamsters feature in local buried-cache folklore. Roberts Resorts and Spring Historical Museum materials describe outlaws shoveling sandy soil along the stage trace before vanishing into piney woods. Metal-detector hobbyists still search Spring Creek greenbelts after storms. Coordinates mark Old Town Spring in north Harris County. Distinct from the Grimes County Navasota railhead legends.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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