The Lost Lowry Treasure Traditional Cache
BEENTHERE309: Never gonna get back there to check that one. Sorry.
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You are looking for a thermos container filled with swag hidden in the same swamps where Henry Berry Lowry, an outlaw to some, a hero to others, supposedly hid a small fortune in gold which has still neverr been recovered. Terrain can vary from two to four stars depending on the time of year and weather conditions, so we split the difference at a three. That being said, please dress well and be careful out there.
Henry Berry Lowry (c. 1845-February 20, 1872?) led an outlaw gang in North Carolina during and after the American Civil War. He is sometimes viewed as a Robin Hood type figure, especially by the Lumbee and Tuscarora people, who consider him one of their tribe and a pioneer in the fight for their civil rights and tribal self-determination.
In revenge for the unjust hanging of his brother and father in 1864, Lowry and his gang embarked on a series of robberies and murders with political overtones that continued until 1872. It would become known as the 'Lowry War'. The Lowry War is considered one of the most important and controversial events in North Carolina history. During the war, Henry Berry Lowry often flouted the authorities who hunted him for over eight years. He murdered the “presumed head” of the local Ku Klux Klan, John Taylor, after which Lowry and many others escaped into the surrounding swamps: a tactic that they would use over and over again and which would prove highly successful at helping them avoid capture. Lowry became the most hunted outlaw in the state’s history.
Lowry disappeared in 1872 after he stole the safes from Pope and McLeod’s store and from the sheriff’s office in Lumberton. He broke open the sheriff’s safe and left it lying in the middle of a Lumberton street. In all, he stole $28,000. The money was never recovered and it is still rumored to be hidden somewhere in the swamps around Pembroke (it was known in Lowry's day as 'Scuffletown').
Many years after he vanished, Henry Berry Lowry reportedly was seen in a church at a funeral for someone he knew. No one talked to him, and he talked to no one, but Robeson County resident Charlie McBryde says that “They said had you looked at his eyes good, you would have known it was Henry Berry.”
Starting in 1976, Lowrie's legend has been presented nearby each summer in an outdoor drama called Strike at the Wind!. Set during the Civil War and Reconstruction years, the play portrays Lowrie as an Indian culture hero who flouts the then dominant racial power structure by fighting for his people's self-determination and defending the county's downtrodden citizens.
According to the article "Legends of North Carolina" by Jefferson Currie, "Henry Berry Lowry has lived on in the minds and hearts of the Lumbee. If you are ever in Robeson County, go down to the swamps and be still. You can feel him, and if you look real close, you might even see him. "
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