Franklin's Lost Gold: Pug Potter's Search for the Lost State's Lost Gold
- ISBN-10
- 151717533X
- ISBN-13
- 9781517175337
- Pages
- 226
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-12-05
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- Pete Dykes
Description
Did pioneer leader John Sevier, Governor of the proposed state of Franklin. accept a gift of gold from a Spanish governor of to induce him to make his fledgling state a province of Spain? Newspaper articles by a war time draftee seemed to indicate that is what an old hand written ledger indicated. No gold was turned in when Franklin's petition for statehood was rejected, and the territory was reformed to become the new state of Tennessee. The information, based on a hand-written account by Franklin's assistant treasurer, an ancestor of the author of a historical feature series for the newspaper, instigated a scrambling search for the lost gold fueled curiosity, interest and greed. The story contains many local historical facts concerning the area around Fall Branch, Tennessee, one of the settlements existing in John Sevier's day, and the abandoned zinc mines near there.
