Legend Heading Legend HeadingCharting Forgotten Places
← All case files
Open Legend · Unsolved

The Lue Map Treasure

Map surfaced 1950s, 60s, Central Florida (per the chart)
COLD TRAIL
Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

The Lue Map Treasure: still unexplained.

A reputed hoard tied to a hand-drawn Florida treasure chart

The subject
The manifest
A reputed hoard tied to a hand-drawn Florida treasure chart
Last known, where the trail went cold
The chart's landmarks have been read onto a dozen Central Florida sites; none has yet yielded the cache.
The account

Few real documents have launched more shovels than the Lue Map, a hand-inked Florida chart, passed through the treasure-hunting underground in the mid-century, marking a cache some tie to smuggled bullion. Its provenance is murky and hotly argued, which has stopped exactly no one. It is a genuine artifact of the hunt: a map people still chase, ground people still walk, a riddle still open.

Leads, where the trail points now
  • Where the trail goes cold: The chart's landmarks have been read onto a dozen Central Florida sites; none has yet yielded the cache. That is where any serious search begins.
  • What you are chasing is A reputed hoard tied to a hand-drawn Florida treasure chart. Work the documented record of The Lue Map Treasure back to primary sources and separate what is attested from folklore before you commit time or money.
  • Confirm who owns and governs Central Florida (per the chart) and get written permission before any search; treat protected or archaeological ground as off limits.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • Where the trail goes cold: The chart's landmarks have been read onto a dozen Central Florida sites; none has yet yielded the cache. That is where any serious search begins.
  • What you are chasing is A reputed hoard tied to a hand-drawn Florida treasure chart. Work the documented record of The Lue Map Treasure back to primary sources and separate what is attested from folklore before you commit time or money.
  • Confirm who owns and governs Central Florida (per the chart) and get written permission before any search; treat protected or archaeological ground as off limits.
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

Have a source, a map, or a clipping? Add a lead and it enters the record with its citation.

Start the hunt here
The first leads, so no one walks in cold.
Sources and the record
Related case files

The full hunt kit

Starting brief, what's known and disputed, evidence timeline, source list, map card, coordinate-confidence and legal-access summaries, and a field checklist, free with a Fellowship account.

Latest Word From the Newswire

Context, not proof. The dossier's own sources remain the evidence record.

Checking the wire…

Chart position 28.800°, -81.270° (approx.) View on the Map