Finding The Long Lost Reno Homestead | Expedition Unknown | Discovery Channel

This is the Reno Homestead you’re standing right on it.

I’m talking to treasure hunter Troy McCormack, who’s looking for the buried fortune of America’s first train robbers, the legendary Reno gang.

The location of their 1800s homestead has been lost for over a century—until perhaps now.

Two things helped me find this. Okay, the first one was a written description by a local historian who said that the Reno homestead was north of Seymour on a hill.

Check. Across from the cemetery, which is where? Right over here. Check.

And it’s on the west side of the cut they made in the hill for the railroad tracks, which is right over there. Just right over there.

And that puts us right in this area.

Okay, that puts us in the area. Yes, but we got to do better than that.

That’s where my second clue came in. It was an amazing discovery. It was a true “X marks the spot” moment.

Okay, I want you to look at this.

Oh my word, this is an old property map.

This is an 1878 plat map that shows land ownership on it.

Look down here—Town of Rockford, and then right below it, W. Reno Wilkinson Reno.

This is the Reno Homestead. This is Ground Zero right here.