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Correspondence (a visitor's note on the abandoned Oak Island diggings)
anonymous, 1857. Liverpool Transcript (Nova Scotia).
The earliest printed reference to the Oak Island diggings found so far: a traveller's brief description of the debris at the abandoned site. Reproduced and discussed by Joltes; the original is in Nova Scotia newspaper files.
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Sets the earliest date at which the digging is documented in print.
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anonymous (1857). Correspondence (a visitor's note on the abandoned Oak Island diggings). Liverpool Transcript (Nova Scotia). https://criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/OI_chapter3.shtml
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. “Correspondence (a visitor's note on the abandoned Oak Island diggings).” Liverpool Transcript (Nova Scotia) (1857).