If you know some older people who might remember, go to them and ask about a missing pot of gold hidden somewhere in the North Carolina mountains. It seems it remains lost in Round Top Mountain, according to a fact-based legend, full of adventure and mystery. Since its disappearance, many better than we, and with the talent and skill to climb and hunt, have failed to bring the hidden treasure home. Perhaps after reading, you might have some luck and become rich and famous.
The mountain across from Chimney Rock, Round Top, is the alleged hiding spot of the missing pot of gold.
Round Top forms one side of Hickory Nut Gap.
This view of Broad River at Hickory Nut Gap is probably as it looked a the time of this incident.
As the story goes, a group of Englishmen passed through the North Carolina mountains with loads of gold on their mules, on their way to the coast to go home to their gold mine.
But they were met with a surprise attack at Hickory Nut Gap — a group of American Indians.
During the bloody battle, all of the Englishmen were killed except one, escaping into the deep, dark night.
A week later and barely alive, the wayfaring man miraculously made his way to a ship and returned home.
He planned to return for the gold with some men in tow but was left blind.
Telling the men through memory and picturing the map in his mind's eye was all he could do to help them find the missing gold.
The impossible mission was unsuccessful.
Since that long ago event — at least 200 hundred years now — hopeful explorers have scaled the mountain for that unattainable pot of gold and the wealthy life it could bring.
And some say it sits there still.
Do you have what it takes to scour the lands for the missing pot of gold? And if you go, be sure to explore the best state park in North Carolina.
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