Treasure Tales and Treasure Stories About Pennsylvania from the Archives of Lost Treasure Magazine
The Buzzards of Pennsylvania
From State Treasure Tales
By Michael Paul Henson
From page 31 of the May 1995 issue of Lost Treasure magazine.
Copyright ©1995, 1998 Lost Treasure, Inc.
Since it is known they made at least one cache, it could pay to research the following gang's criminal activities.
During the 1890s a band of outlaws roamed the mountains of Lancaster and southern Lebanon Counties.
They were the Buzzards, four of the seven sons of the widow of a Civil War soldier from the Welsh Mountains region of Lancaster County, who turned to a life of crime to support the family after their father died on the battlefield.
The area known as the Welsh Mountains lies between the towns of Ephrata and Honey Brook and, at the time, connected with Lebanon County through a series of mountain trails. It was in this area that the gangs' many crimes were committed.
The gang consisted of Abram, the eldest, Joe, Jacob and Ike.
The Buzzards' forays into Lebanon County brought them into the Scheafferstown area, traveling along a narrow dirt road that still snakes its way through the hills. The gang had a preferred hiding place among the rocks along this road and on at least one occasion hid money (while all were drunk) from a robbery here. None of the gang could ever find this cache. A full-length write-up on this gang appeared in the Lebanon Daily newspaper during January (no date available) 1990.
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