During the time of the Civil War (1862), three daring men robbed a Canadian bank and made off with $50,000 in gold. The robbers then made their way across Lake Erie to the United States. Upon their arrival in the United Sates, the trio argued with each other over the division of their spoils. Eventually, one man shot the other two, and buried the gold near Fairport Harbor, the called just Fairport.
    The surviving bank robber ended up in a Chicago hospital, dying of a pulmonary disease. On his deathbed, he told his caregivers the story of the bank robbery. His dying confession went in part, “The gold is buried three feet deep, all the bars together, 20 paces northwest from a large oak tree near the west bank of Grand River, in Ohio, about two miles south of the lake.”