Walnut Creek Blanco County Placer Gold Hoard — Blanco County

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Walnut Creek Blanco County Placer Gold Hoard — Blanco County

Lost Treasure TX • Blanco County County
Description
Walnut Creek legend of a placer-gold hoard along Cambrian conglomerates — distinct from documented 1890s fine-gold workings near the Llano County line.
Historical Notes
Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache notes that Walnut Creek, just south of the Llano County line in Blanco County, was worked briefly in the 1890s for placer gold in Cambrian conglomerates. Related database entry "Walnut Creek — Blanco County" documents the gold_site; this pin marks separate treasure-legend folklore of an unrecovered hoard. Central Texas placer folklore often imagines miners or prospectors burying dust and nuggets when workings played out or when remote diggings lacked banking. Walnut Creek flows through northern Blanco County toward the Pedernales drainage. Coordinates approximate Walnut Creek in northern Blanco County near the Llano County line. Prospecting requires landowner permission; no trespassing.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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