On Friday, May 11, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review addressed an age-old debate concerning the possible location of a cache of buried gold left behind by General Edward Braddock at the time of the French and Indian War.

For more than 250 years, rumors of buried gold from Gen. Edward Braddock’s campaign during the French and Indian War have stirred men’s imaginations. The gold coin was to be used as payroll for the 2,400 British and American troops who journeyed with Braddock in June and July of 1755 during his expedition from Fort Cumberland, Md., to Fort Duquesne.

After Braddock was mortally wounded by the French during the battle of Monongahela (now Braddock, Pa) and his army retreated to a site near Fort Necessity in Fayette County, the $25,000 of British gold was never seen again.