Treasure Tales and Treasure Stories About Louisiana from the Archives of Lost Treasure Magazine

Plantation cache

When Colonel Norman Frisby's mansion was dismantled in 1910, anxious relatives hoped that workmen would discover some clue as to the whereabouts of the vast fortune Frisby buried in 1864, in the face of advancing Federal troops. Frisby's fortune reportedly consisted of gold coins and bullion, jewelry, gold and silver door knobs, heirloom tableware, a silver bell that the colonel had cast from 200 pounds of silver dollars. The treasure was hidden somewhere in the area just north of present day Highway 4 between New Light and Newellton. Later the story went round that Frisby had murdered one of the two slaves who helped him bury the loot, but that the other slave had been allowed to escape. The 1910, demolition brought no clues, but Frisby's relatives continued to search up until the 1950s. They found nothing, and neither has anyone since. The Frisby Bible, last known to be in Texas, reportedly contains some clue to the cache site which was said to have been originally marked by a gun barrel in a tree.