The second was made December, 1821, and consisted of nineteen hundred and seven pounds of gold, and twelve hundred and eighty-eight pounds of silver also jewels, obtained in St. “The first deposit consisted of one thousand and fourteen pounds of gold, and three thousand eight hundred and twelve pounds of silver, deposited November, 1819.
You just have to find it-if it’s even there. That counts for something when the subject at hand is worth about $93 million. He just states what he knows and gets on with it, which is probably why people have been consulting him about their suspicions about Beale for 50 years: He can be trusted. Johnson, a spry and voluble 81, knows a bit about the tangled tale of Thomas Jefferson Beale-his family has been here since the 1700s-and though he’s the go-to person for any media outlet covering the Beale legend, he’s not a cheerleader or a salesman. And it’s not the brightly colored wine he sells that keeps things perking. We are to meet with Danny Johnson, who is probably the most-quoted witness to the legend that drives a bit of the economy in this neck of the woods. Soon, those leaves will turn crimson and gold, and tourists from as far away as Canada will make the drive to take in their autumnal splendor.Īfter checking into our rooms at the Days Inn in Bedford, Mason Goad and I find our way up twisty mountain roads to a 220-acre winery called Peaks of Otter for our first appointment of the day. If we begin at the beginning, we have to go 200 years in the past, but instead, let’s go three-and-a-half hours south, in the present, to start this adventure.Įarly on a late-summer day, the green hills of Bedford County in central Virginia are ridiculously verdant, lush with the blur of leaves and needles from the hardwood and pine forests that cover the gently undulating Blue Ridge Mountains.
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