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Description
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| Rapier; thin fencing sword, relic, iron part only, rusted. (dug up 6" deep under old Calhoun ranch house on Eastside Road [part built in the 1870's]. part of the Calhoun house was the old Louis Legendre cabin built in 1847. According to family [Calhoun] legend, Louis Legendre was murdered by his partner, who then dragged the body to the river. By the time Legendre was found, his partner was gone. There was a legend that Legendre was killed for the money that he kept buried on the property. [see 1880 Sonoma County History pgs. 258 and 360 for a similar version of the story]. Calhouns believed this rapier could have been the murder weapon.) |
Artifacts
-Rapier
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