White Point Gardens Pirate Loot — Charleston

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White Point Gardens Pirate Loot — Charleston

Lost Treasure SC • Charleston County County
Description
Charleston waterfront legend of pirate gold near White Point Gardens — where Stede Bonnet and twenty-nine crew were hanged in 1718 between high and low tide at the harbor's edge.
Historical Notes
White Point Gardens at the Battery was the execution ground for Bonnet's crew on November 8, 1718, and for Bonnet himself in December. Admiralty law required intertidal hangings for crimes tried on land but committed at sea. Folklore sometimes claims condemned pirates swallowed or disclosed cache locations before the noose. Judge Nicholas Trott's 1718 trials were the spectacle of the decade. Monuments at White Point commemorate Rhett's capture of Bonnet; metal detectorists and tourists still hunt the surrounding Battery seawall for dropped coins.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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