Stark's Landing Sabine River Silver Bars — Newton County

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Stark's Landing Sabine River Silver Bars — Newton County

Lost Treasure TX • Newton County County
Description
Newton County account of 214 pounds of silver bars unearthed in 1867 while building a steamboat wharf at Stark's Landing on the Sabine River — with larger deposits still sought nearby.
Historical Notes
An 1891 Colmesneil Times reprint in the Galveston News reported that workers excavating log pilings for a steamboat wharf at Stark's Landing, ten miles south of Newton on the Sabine River, unearthed silver bars weighing 214 pounds avoirdupois in 1867. Extensive digging followed but found no other deposits. The same article described a primitive silver smelter near Stark's Landing where bullion was re-melted — evidence of Neutral Strip trade and robbery along the Sabine. W. T. Block cited this as one of the few partially verified Southeast Texas treasure accounts. Coordinates approximate Stark's Landing on the Sabine River south of Newton in Newton County north of Beaumont.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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