With Uncharted Lancaster’s real-life treasure hunt beginning on April 15, 2023, I thought you might enjoy some local tales of adventure involving lost buried treasures. Click the link to learn more about this exciting five-week expedition.
Lancaster’s Own Klondike
According to the December 29, 1900 edition of the Semi-Weekly New Era in Lancaster, gold was discovered in Herrville along the bank of Pequea creek.
See the article below.

Here’s the community of Herrville south of Willow Street.
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Other Herrville Mysteries
This isn’t the first mysterious mention of Herrville in a Lancaster newspaper. Thirty years earlier, The Daily Evening Express wrote about a “Subterranean Lake” in the area containing fish “devoid of eyes. The body of water inside had “never been fathomed being beyond the reach of a sounding line.”
Read the full article and where the subterranean lake can be found here.



Resources
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1875 map of Pequea Township, Lancaster County, PA$14.00 – $27.99
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