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The Loomis Gang loot

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

For decades before the Civil War the Loomis family ran the biggest horse-and-cattle-thieving ring in central New York out of a farm on the edge of Nine Mile Swamp, buying off sheriffs and juries as they went. When vigilantes finally broke them, the family fortune, said to be gold and stolen goods, was never accounted for, and the swamp has been searched for it ever since.

The ground it haunts

Nine Mile Swamp, near Sangerfield (Madison County, NY). Source: Documented outlaw history; the buried loot is the lore. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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