Old Flint River Settlement Gold

Old Flint River Settlement Gold

In the 1830s, when the Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands and move to Oklahoma, a pot of gold was buried on the old Shelby Cullom farm, two miles north of Ryland, Alabama, in eastern Madison County, Alabama,  in a place called Bellfaun which borders the Flint River. Some tales list this as “Old Flint River Settlement” and some say Bellfaun was a farm owned by a man named Shelby Collum.