Hanover's Central Hotel, seen here in this image from the Hanover Area Historical Society, served as headquarters for Union cavalry General Judson Kilpatrick late in the battle. This hotel still stands at the corner of Center Square and Baltimore Street. Some Union military men returned to hunt for money buried during the visit in late-June 1863. Background posts: Reader searches for Ziegler's tavern photos, Iron Mike Guards 'The Picket' and Did you know this about York/Adams history?
A treasure hunter is seeking state permission to dig for gold reportedly lost by a Union convoy in Elk County during the Civil War.
This brings to mind a moment shortly after the Civil War in which Union treasure hunters returned to the Hanover area to conduct a dig... .
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