Benjamin Pritchard, who is one of the founding fathers of Allegan is the solider at the heart of the History Channel series The Curse of Confederate Gold.
The treasure hunters behind the Curse of Oak Island have turned their attention to Michigan and are on the trail of a rumored cache of civil war gold hidden somewhere in Lake Michigan.
It's a story you may have heard before, Union soldiers from Michigan secretly moved tons of Confederate gold north during the Civil War. The search for that mythical gold in West Michigan is the basis for a new History channel show, The Curse of Civil War Gold.
Hackley Park in Muskegon looks like any other downtown park in any city in America with walkways and statues. But some Muskegonites say there's a secret history that goes back to the Civil War.