La Galga's remains lie in a former inlet. Early land plat's show that east, or to the right of the wreck in the square, that Assateague has built out in this area over the centuries. For more, read The Hidden Galleon.

On the fourth day after the wreck, Captain Don Daniel Huony informed John Scarborough, Sheriff of Worcester County, Maryland, that the "Owner of the Land Owned the Ship." After Scarborough visited the wreck of La Galga at Assateague, he reported to  the Governor of Maryland about the condition of the wreck. When he described the mahogany planks on board destined for the King's Palace he said "there are many thousands of pounds worth of it that can be got before the ship bursts with the sea and sinks into the Land." Later, in Spain, several ship's officers reported that by the third day when they left, the "frigate was buried in sand." Two hundred and thirty three years later, the great nephew of Grandpa Beebe, told the author that the legendary galleon was buried in a forgotten inlet and that it had sanded in within two weeks time. A plat found at the Accomack County Court House, Virginia, dated 1840 documents the drastic changes that have occurred in this location over the centuries.  As Grandpa told his grandchildren in Misty of Chincoteague, "Legends be the only stories as is true."