Pots of Gold

Mysteries 2 Minutes

During the autumn of 1864 it was clear the Confederacy was losing the Civil War. Some of the Southern leaders hoping to save what was left of the Confederate Treasury decided to move some of it from Richmond, Virginia to North Carolina. They summoned Captain JW Duchase to Richmond and gave him specific orders–orders he was only to open upon arrival in Greensboro, North Carolina. When Duchase left Richmond, the train on which he traveled carried several boxcars with soldiers and arms, a cannon and 2 flatcars filled with thousands of iron cooking pots–each filled to the brim with gold coins, their lids tightly fastened with wire.

Upon arrival in Greensboro, Duchase read his orders. He was instructed to bury the pots along the train track, 100 paces out, and to plot the burial places as nearly as possible. Following his orders, Duchase’s men buried the pots in groups of three, over 16 miles from McLeansville to a town called Company Shops (now known as Burlington).

His mission completed, Duchase and his men were to take the train back to Richmond, not only to report on the locations of the buried iron pots, but also to help defend Richmond from the advancing Union forces. But the returning train was derailed by Union saboteurs. Most of Duchase’s company was captured–only he and a Lieutenant escaped– but in the escape, he lost the only written plot map. Weeks later he was captured and sent to prison, where he remained until after the war.

NOT Duchase’s map

Duchase then traveled to Mexico, where he built a successful life, and never returned to the U.S. His personal journals, which contained specific details of buried pots where given to P.H. Black. Black was from Greensboro, NC, and met with Duchase in Mexico, returning to the United States with his journals. When Black died in the 1930s, Duchase’s journals were missing from his possessions.

Where are the journals?

In the late 1880’s, the town of Burlington was growing rapidly. Farmers responded to the growing demand for food by turning thousands of acres of land along the railroad tracks to farmland. In the spring of 1910, a farmer was plowing next to the railroad tracks and broke his plow on something buried in the soil. He hit an old rusted pot, with the lid wired shut and filled with gold coins. Two more were found later, totaling three pots of $20 gold pieces, for this very lucky man.

The legend never says if he found more pots on his property. However, in the mid 1990’s a treasure hunter claims to have found 12 pots in four different locations. Still, if there were thousands of pots, and the number claimed to have been found is less than 20, that means there could be hundreds of pots of gold, just waiting to be found…in the 16 mile stretch from McLeansville to Burlington…100 paces from the railroad tracks.

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  1. Good morning! Ooooh, another treasure hunt! Hmmm….I wonder if my bro who lives in NC knows about this??!!?? Sorry I didn’t get back until late but what a day I had yesterday! I wrote this last night – yes, another mini-story!

    I had an absolutely BANNER day!!!! I called the County Assessor’s office in the morning and spoke to a wonderful young lady – I have to call and get her name again because I want to send a letter commending her service. Anyway, she told me what I needed to bring (annual SS statement of benefits) and said she would help fill out the forms for a Homestead Exemption.

    When I got there, she looked at the SS report, said, yes, you qualify, and filled out the forms for me – all I had to do was sign, date and add my phone #. After paying last year’s taxes, I will NEVER have to pay PPT again!!!! THIS IS A BIG FUCKING DEAL!!! Of course, if my income changes too much, that would change, and I have to apply every year but since I am now in the system, all I have to do is bring my SS statement so they can verify the amount and it will be automatic.

    I also reiterated that my house was a modular, and asked if they had taken that into consideration in comparison with the other properties’ sale price. They got to checking into it – she offered to bring me the book so I could see the prices myself and I said, no, that wasn’t necessary, I knew they weren’t making up the numbers – the numbers are the numbers! I signed the papers, she gave me a copy, reminding me that I should keep it because they will discard my financial info after a period of time – they don’t keep it on file.

    I thanked her over and over and over and made sure she knew what a huge weight that was off my shoulders, then went shopping! Oh, I had fun looking at plants! I stopped first at Menards and wandered around for close to an hour, looking for plants for my 2 big pots and something for my jimmy-rigged planter. I found a Vinca vine for the rigged planter ($1.99) – it’s small, with 2 vines that will extend thru the windows. I chose Angelonia ($5.99/ea) for the big pots – they should grow to 36″.

    Vinca

    Angelonia

    On my way into Menards, when I got out of my truck, an older gentleman in a sagging, obvious work t-shirt and jeans, with a brace on his leg, commented about all the branches in the back of my truck. We got into a convo and ended up talking about all KINDS of things, starting with Orioles and why they like grape jelly. He told me about his family and himself – used to run a day care, his Mom started the 5th Street Bar in Norfolk, which was where my birth Dad used to drink all the time! My Mom, who also had a bar in Madison, also knew the owner – connections everywhere! He has 6 kids, 10 grands, and great-grands who all live in the area and visit regularly. Probably late 70’s, early 80’s. We even talked about politics – he recommends Turning Point USA and we talked about how much we love Charlie Kirk, he listens to him all the time – and had such an enjoyable conversation!

    There were NO bigger jars of grape jelly at WM – only the really small jars – almost NO peanut butter – both entire shelves were completely empty. Michael mentioned a report he had seen about a Jif PB recall but he thought it was only some batches. Apparently not! Even at my local grocery store – only the smaller 14 oz. squeeze bottles of Welch’s – I paid $3.59 each for 3 of them – I only had half a jar left and I knew all the feeders would be empty. So I’ve changed it up a bit in the small feeder and I put raspberry jam in it. Both Orioles and Sparrows are eating it! Next time, I’m going to try strawberry – if they eat that, I will switch to strawberry since there is ALWAYS strawberry jelly available! Just good news all the way around today!

    I had to get some gas here to make it to Norfolk – $4.54/gallon now. At Meadow Grove, it was $4.49/gal so I got more there, for the truck and the mower. I didn’t check in Norfolk. Still better than the $9 in CA!!!!!

    Then on to see my friend Michael, who had visited Glen, so paid me back the $50 I had loaned him in smoke! When I arrived at Michael’s I checked my phone to see if I had missed any calls and texts and there was a call around 3 pm from the Assessor’s office. I called her back and the same gal told me that she and the older lady there in the office with her had discussed it and, after talking to a higher up, had decided the valuation should be adjusted and, considering the age (1970) and the fact it is a modular, they were dropping the valuation by $23K, which is a MUCH more reasonable price! Could this GET any better?!?!

    And on top of that? Michael is going to bring his chain saw and cut the rest of the Trumpet vines and cut up those huge limbs for me!!!! I’m tellin’ ya’ – banner day! And he has a job at the auto supply store in Norfolk, for which he is eminently qualified! Things are just looking up all the way around today! He was also playing tonight at the Art Center for some special thing they are doing.

    Hallelujah! And I’ll have an appetite again….overall, a stunningly pleasant, wonderful day!!! One that, TBH, I REALLY needed about now!!! I am still floating right now and it’s almost 10 pm!!!

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  2. Whoa! Now this is a trans-woman who is thinking straight! Um…..well, you know….not “straight” straight…..and do I have that right? A woman who transitions to a man is a trans-woman (she/he), right? Or is he/she a trans-man? Sigh….I’m SO confused!!!!

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    1. Yeah, I saw that! Lady, you have had me LOL’ing for the last 10 minutes – I copied a BUNCH of the links and sent them to Patty and Sis. I haven’t laughed like that in a while!!!!

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      1. They whitewashed it, of course, and basically lied. SMH

        I took these pics yesterday – the first one is the entire climbing rose, with the Clematis blooming at the lower left. It is supposed to be yellow but looks white; but when it first opened, it had a pink tinge so I am hoping it will eventually turn yellow. The second is a close-up of the buds! You may have to squint a bit to see the smaller ones but it is literally covered!!!!

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  14. EXCERPT: “Corporations are using inflation as an excuse to raise their prices, hurting workers and consumers while they enjoy record profits. Prices are surging — but let’s be clear: Corporations are not raising prices simply because of the increasing costs of supplies and labor. They could easily absorb these higher costs, but instead, they are passing them on to consumers and even raising prices higher than those cost increases.

    Corporations are getting away with this because they face little or no competition. If markets were competitive, companies would keep their prices down to prevent competitors from grabbing away customers. But in a market with only a few competitors able to coordinate prices, consumers have no real choice. As a result, corporations are raking in their highest profits in 70 years.

    Are they using these record profits to raise their workers’ real wages? No. They’re handing out meager wage increases to attract or keep workers with one hand, but effectively eliminating those wage increases by raising prices with the other. Wages grew 5.6% over the past year — but prices rose 8.5%. That means, adjusted for inflation, workers actually got a 2.9% pay cut.

    So what are corporations doing with their record profits? Using them to boost share prices by buying back a record amount of their own shares of stock. Goldman Sachs expects buybacks to reach $1 trillion this year — an all-time high. This amounts to a direct upward transfer of wealth from average working people’s wallets into CEOs’ and shareholders’ pockets.

    Billionaires have become at least $1.7 trillion richer during the pandemic, while CEO pay (based largely on stock values) is now at a record 350 times the typical worker’s pay. So what’s the real solution?
    —————————-
    In short, the real problem is not inflation. The real problem is the increase in corporate power and the decline in worker power over the past 40 years.

    Unless we address this growing imbalance, corporations will continue siphoning off the economy’s gains into their CEOs’ and shareholders’ pockets — while everyday Americans get shafted.”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/corporations-record-profits-inflation-raising-prices/

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    1. at the party over the weekend, a gentleman who works for a local propane gas company told us about his company. the workers receive a discount FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES! they pay $1.80 per whatever it is…while CUSTOMERS pay $4.80 for the same thing!!
      the employees are receiving a better rate by far–but that still must be above the price the company pays for it…so there is plenty of room there for the company…they are gouging while they can imo.

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  17. QTree:

    WUT??!!?? 50 mph is a really windy day here!!!!

    “Saturday expected to be the worst for SWFL with this thing, now called Tropical Cyclone 1 – wind gusts expected up to 50 mph”

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  18. I want anyone to know who might be lurking and just reading – to our great followers – any links to public articles that I post are here for the sharing/copying and sending on to others. Just want everyone to know that! The same applies to the source material I provide in my opens. I do that so you have it available if you want to know more and, of course, for attribution.

    My personal pics/life stories are on a case-by-case basis, depending on where they will be posted, and my permission would be required. The consideration would be appreciated!

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  19. That is so funny! As soon as I read the first paragraph @ QTree just now, I knew immediately it was Steve, which reminded me that he does Saturdays. Typical Steve – I enjoy him!

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  27. copied from tcth

    kinthenorthwest
    June 4, 2022 12:19 pm

    Sometimes the crazy kid’s movies are filled with awesome truths.
    Look around the people who want their constitutional freedoms and not have their lives totally controlled by the Globalist far outnumber the ones trying to destroy America.

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  28. who’s surprised?
    FTA
    In November 2020, Oregon voters approved ballot measure 110, making Oregon the first state in the nation to decriminalize the possession of hard drugs. M110 made the possession of personal use amounts of hard street drugs like heroin or meth punishable by a citation of up to $100, and directed funding to drug treatment programs. The voters bought the argument that the state could better disburse resources to treatment rather than prosecuting offenders criminally. In addition, the citation and fine could be waived if the offender called a hotline that would offer a “health assessment.”

    Guess what happened next?

    Officials at the Oregon Health Authority testified to legislative committees this week about the results of the program. It isn’t good. According to the Daily Mail:

    Oregon’s first-in-the-nation scheme to decriminalize drugs and encourage those caught possessing them to seek medical help has been blighted with problems, officials admitted on Thursday – as one Republican politician said there had been a 700 percent in overdoses in her district in the last year.

    Of the 1,885 people who got tickets in the first year of the program, only 91 called the hotline. Of those who called, only a handful had any interest in getting treatment.

    According to an earlier report in January by Oregon Catalyst, of the 68 people who had called the hotline by that point, 49 expressed zero interest in getting help, and only 11 got connected to treatment services.

    Eleven.

    A report by OPB notes that the program comes with some hefty strings, with rural areas struggling to provide sufficient resources:

    Under the measure, providers applying for funds in different regions of the state, in many cases by county, must jointly form “Behavioral Health Resource Networks.” Each network must provide a range of services that includes needs screening, intervention planning, low-barrier substance use treatment, peer support, housing services, harm reduction and supported employment.

    And, providers must provide services in a way that aligns with the spirit of Measure 110. For example, services must be culturally competent, inclusive and low barrier. This means that programs can’t eject a patient for a single relapse, and that harm reduction services — such as overdose reversing drugs, fentanyl testing strips and clean syringes — should be available for people who are not ready to abstain from substance use. In some regions, a single provider serves as the entire network.

    Oregonians were sold a bill of goods when they approved Measure 110. In exchange for legalizing small amounts of hard street drugs, Oregon voters were assured that M110 would allocate significant funding for drug treatment, which has badly lagged in the state for years. Voters were told nonviolent drug users didn’t deserve to be locked up, and that marijuana tax money could pay for treatment. A report in April revealed the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) had gone AWOL. Treatment service providers were told when they applied for funds in December 2021 that OHA would make a decision by February 2022. By April, OHA was telling them to expect applications to be processed by the fall. Some non-profit treatment programs, relying on the promised grants, feared they might not stay open long enough to receive the funds.

    In legislative testimony this week, Oregon Health Authority officials admitted they had no idea how complex the program would be to implement. They, of course, requested higher staffing levels to deal with it. Of the $276 million they received in funding for drug treatment grants to non-profits, only $40 million had been disbursed. The Secretary of State’s office is conducting an audit of the implementation of Measure 110.

    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jeff-reynolds/2022/06/03/overdoses-up-700-after-oregon-decriminalizes-hard-street-drugs-officials-mystified-n1602995

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  30. Progress report from the NF homestead: Been a busy-busy bee. Turned into a beautiful day! 76 and partly cloudy but there are more rain clouds in the west. It’s supposed to be rainy off-and-on into next Thursday!!! We had a thunderstorm, which was what woke me up at 4 am. Not bad but a good downpour. After I finished checking all the feeders and re-filling the nectar feeder and weaving honeysuckle vines, I went out front. One bloom on the rose is showing a small slice of the flower so soon, I expect.

    Re-arranged the items on my front porch; I have an urn-style planter – heavy ceramic in the Roman style, with winged cherubs and all that fancy stuff, a light olive green overall – a big bowl on top of a pedestal. It is heavy enough that it would take a really strong wind to knock it over. I had a fern in it for many years until it died out last year, and had done nothing with it except to gather dust. So that is now outside to the left of my front door – sigh, need more plants – and I moved the fireplace tool set up onto the porch, immediately to the left of the wood stove. It looks really nice. When I get it all together, I will post a pic.

    I also got the plant inside the feeder/planter, which is now hanging out front, too. Man, was THAT a pain! I have no idea whether it will survive since I had to really take off a lot of the 4″ of tiny roots and planting material in order to fit it thru the window on the feeder. But I managed – hope it makes it, I think it will – and gradually poured in dirt from the top, periodically using a teaspoon and a butter knife to reach in and pack the dirt down on the sides and in the corners. I finally got it done and there are 2 vines sticking out one window. There are some really small holes in the doors and I’m going to try to use a drill to make them big enough for a vine. I think I can do it without shattering the whole area if I’m careful – it’s that super hard plastic.

    Now to plant the flowers in my big pots; I have to take a bunch of the dirt and old, dead, roots from past plants out and replace it. I have a half-bag of Miracle Gro soil from last year so I’ll replace it with that. Those flowers should do really well: fresh, nutrient-rich soil, full sun…and I loosen up the root ball when I take it out of the container. It’s usually so packed and root-bound, the plant will do much better sooner if I carefully work it and loosen it all up.

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  31. I’m baaack….! More progress! I decided to put my variegated Philodendron in the pot for the front porch. I’ll just bring it inside for the winter, back out the next spring – easy peasy! Here are the final results – if you look closely, you can see 2 rather sickly looking vines coming out of the feeder. I think it will recover so…..along the front of my front porch is where I REALLY want a Bleeding Heart bush but it’s sooooo narrow there…..I’ll probably try anyway. That and the Lily of the Valley were 2 plants that my grandma had at her house when we lived with her and I always loved them. And yes, you can see me in the door! LOL Skinny little bitch, aren’t I?!?

    Half of the front walkway – further to the left is the ladder with the blue/purple Clematis and the decorative items I’ve put on the rungs. A gold metal Owl figure on the bottom, with the vine coming up thru the middle (I’m training that one, too), a tram car a few rungs up, and a carriage with a team of horses further up, which are all weathered copper – M’s hubby made them), my Uncle Sam wood carving (which badly needs repainting), and the Trumpet vines/arbor. The Calla Lilies are on the left in this shot – I expect they will get a LOT bigger but aren’t they a lovely color? They are also partially pale yellow, almost dark cream.

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      1. I really love it! My old neighbor, Butch, who died the first Thanksgiving I lived here, made the Lady Bug and gave it to me. That’s where I chose to put it – underneath the flag holder – in memory of Butch. He was a crotchety old guy, underwent numerous heart procedures, and was not in great shape. But he got out there and gardened and picked his apples from his trees. We used to exchange veggies – I gave him tomatoes, he gave me sweet green peppers, etc. We had a mutual disregard for the City Manager at the time. Both of us used to give him a ration of shit! LOL – I gave Butch beef stew when I made it and chili once.

        That particular Thanksgiving, I was going to Mom’s – just the 2 of us – and I thought about Butch – the only family he had in town he was on the outs with – so that morning, after asking Mom if it was ok, I was going to call him to invite him to come along. Shortly after, our mutual neighbor called to tell me he had died the night before, sitting in his recliner – heart attack.

        He had no will and everything went via auction – his house – I think a 3-4 BR but only one bath room upstairs, sold for only $15K. They renovated it, did a lot of outside clean up (he had 3 different sheds/garages, a rotting back deck) and turned around a year and a half later and sold it for close to $70K!!! This is why I have it in my will that my house is NOT to be sold at auction!!!!

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  38. LOL

    ST. LOUIS — St. Louis is experiencing another surge in COVID-19 cases.

    “You have to be careful. A lot of people have let their guard down, but the virus is still out there,” St. Louis resident, Tawanda Tinsley said.

    Tinsley said she and her family have not taken any chances with COVID-19 throughout the pandemic.

    “I’ve been masked at the store, every time I go outside. I just never take my mask off,” Tinsley said.

    “Even though I had my first and second boosters, I still my mask on,” she said.

    “We’re now in the high transmission and community level in the city of St. Louis,” Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, director of health for the city of St. Louis, said during her virtual town hall meeting on Wednesday.

    The city was previously at moderate COVID-19 transmission levels.

    Right now, she says the number of new reported COVID-19 cases is as high as it was during last summer’s delta variant surge.

    “It’s hard to get accurate numbers because people are not testing as much as they used to. Those numbers have plummeted,” she added.

    https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/st-louis-high-risk-covid-19-transmission/63-d5e6ae8a-7033-4e6a-915d-cb82429eb87b

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