Halifax Company tunnel (1866-67)

From Shaft No. 10, about 200 ft southeast of the Money Pit and 110 ft deep, the Halifax Company tunnelled toward the pit at the 108 ft level and met the flood water. Hamilton saw this tunnel in 1939-41 and sketched it leaving the south-east corner of the Hedden shaft toward the east-south-east. Later searchers kept running into the same work: the Treasure Company met an old tunnel at 70 ft in Shaft 14 and at 105 ft in Shaft 15 (1897-98), and in 1897 broke from the Tupper Pit through the "Halifax Eldorado tunnel" into the base of the true Money Pit. Drawn as a straight line from the shaft's described position to the corner Hamilton marked; its real course is not recorded.

The record gives points, not the course between them.

Depth

Where It Sits

Connected to Halifax Company tunnel (1866-67)

• Money Pit (Shaft No. 1)1795114 ftSearcher shaft
• Shaft No. 10 (Halifax Co.)1867110 ftSearcher shaft
• Shaft No. 14189795 ftSearcher shaft
• Shaft No. 151898160 ftSearcher shaft
• Shaft No. 3 (Tupper Pit)1850110 ftSearcher shaft

Sources

• R.V. Harris, The Oak Island Mystery (1958); Erwin Hamilton, undated sketch of the Money Pit shafts; Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe; Randall Sullivan
• Positions and depths: see how we know this on the Money Pit Map.