So the British could never find Jonathan Eddy's secret treasure.

Legend has it, that the one who finds the treasure would hold the power to overpower the Atlantic Canadian Provinces. A power that was rumored to have played a role in the Aroostok War of 1839, which was really a ploy by the French-Canadian immigrants to take revenge against English Crown. However, after witnessing this power, the founder of the treasure buried it where it still remains hidden to this day.

Some believe the former Governor Percival Baxter was once told of the location by overhearing a discussion between his father (Mayor James Baxter of Portland) and none other than Joshua Chamberlain himself, who believed the treasure caused the Gubernatorial Dispute of 1880 that would have resulted in a takeover of the Maine State House that would push for another war with Canada. Chamberlain confided into Mayor Baxter his reasoning to hide the treasure to avoid more atrocious war and destruction, and how he prays no one would dig in the area he placed it. Percival, a young man who idolized Chamberlain, made it his life's work to ensure the treasure was never found, thus Baxter State Park. Or so the story goes.