Subscribers may recall the post about Chicken Nuggets. There was one particular instant when gold nuggets surfaced in a field near Spoonville. It is also a tale of lost treasure, but many of those tales are based on fiction, whereas the following has some real substance.
One November morning in 1877 one of John Dunn’s daughters, (some say Arminta and others Mary) followed their father who had just plowed a field near the old location of Spoonville. The little girl picked what she thought was a piece of brass and on her way back home, tossed it aside. She mentioned this to her folks and they went back and retraced her steps and found the specimen. It turned out to be a 13 ounce gold nugget worth $220. The next day neighbors began examining the field, and more nuggets were found, but not as large as the first one. It was believed that the gold belonged to the Frenchman Henry Gordier who was murdered in 1858. There are some under the impression that there is more gold to be found, and others still search for clues as to where the gold came from.