Hello all!
We welcome you to come out and join us on Saturday, June 24, 2017, at 9:00 am at the historical Mendenhall Plantation located at 603 West Main Street, Jamestown, NC, 27282.
On the agenda is a raffle for American Digger magazine!
Hope to see you there!
Hard to believe summer is here! Hopefully everyone can get out and do some detectoring if you haven't already.
May brought us a club hunt on a historical property in Winston-Salem. Thank you to the huntmaster William for getting the permission! While we were light on the historical finds, there were some interesting items including a fork, a bullet, a 1920 wheatie, and other assorted clad and items. Our Secretary Cynthia found six keys in one area which was fun.
Our May meeting will be conducted as part of our annual seeded hunt on June 3rd. You must be a current member and have completed orientation to participate in the hunt. This year's event looks to be quite exciting- in addition to an assortment of prizes, we will have two grand prizes this year! More on the prizes and our appreciation to those who have donated to come. Current members, please check your email for details regarding the event and respond with requested details.
June 24th 2017 will be our next regularly scheduled meeting at the Mendenhall Plantation. Guests are always welcome at our regular meetings, we hope you'll decide to join as well!
This Saturday, April 8, 2017 will be another members only club hunt!
If you are interested in joining us, you must complete the membership application and pay the membership fee to participate.
As always, our regular meetings are open to guests and our next meeting will be April 29, 2017.
Come join us for our March 2017 meeting on Saturday, March 25, at 9:00 AM. Anyone interested in metal detecting is invited to our meetings and we hope you will decide to join us! Membership is $20 per year for individuals, $30 for families.
Meetings are held at the historical Mendenhall Plantation, 603 West Main St, Jamestown, NC 27282.
Our meetings cover current club business, potential hunts, and other topics related to metal detecting. Come and hear more about our most recent club hunt from March 18!
Come join us for our February 2017 meeting on Saturday, February 25, at 9:00 AM. Anyone interested in metal detecting is invited to our meetings and we hope you will decide to join us! Membership is $20 per year for individuals, $30 for families.
Meetings are held at the historical Mendenhall Plantation, 603 West Main St, Jamestown, NC 27282.
Our meetings cover current club business, potential hunts, and other topics related to metal detecting.
Come out to our first meeting of the new year!
On Saturday, January 28, 2017, at 9:00 am we welcome you to join us at the historical Mendenhall Plantation located at 603 West Main Street, Jamestown, NC, 27282.
Agenda to include but not limited to:
The July meeting is Saturday, July 30, 2016 at 9:00 am. We are meeting at the historic Mendenhall Plantation in Jamestown, NC, unless otherwise instructed. The address is 603 Main Street, Jamestown, NC. We hope everyone will be able to attend. We will be discussing the following:
See you on Saturday.
ONSD Members,
April 2015 club meeting will take place on Saturday, April 25th at 9:00am
Our next club meeting will be held on Saturday, March 28th at 9:00 am at East Coast Wings.
Our club will meet on Saturday, February 28th at 9:00 am.
We have a lot to discuss so we hope you will all be there.
If you haven't paid your dues, please bring cash or a check.
See you on Saturday.
Our next club meeting will take place on Saturday, January 31st at 9 a.m.
We will have general elections at that time.
More information to follow.
NSD Members,
ONSD CHRISTMAS PARTY
8:30 am Saturday, December 6th
at
East Coast Wings
A fun event will be the gift exchange.
Members are asked to bring a wrapped gift.
Gifts are to be in the $10.00 – $15.00
range and need not be related to metal detecting.
This is a good opportunity to give the
gift you received last Christmas and never used
Please bring a dish to share!
It is
very important to let Susan know you are coming
and what dish you will bring.
Susan Neubauer - neubauersusan@yahoo.com
President’s Corner
Hello ONSD Members,
I want to thank everyone who attended last month’s meeting and especially the participants in the “Find of Summer” competition. We had fantastic submissions and it is great to see fellow club members having success in the field. It was extremely difficult to judge but ultimately the winner was Wayne Clodfelter with a gold coin ring. Congratulations Wayne.
I hope everyone will be able to attend the upcoming meeting on Saturday, October 25th. We are going to have a discussion on Civil War finds led by Robert Underwood. Robert will have displays of his Civil War finds which he recently showcased at the MARC Heritage Day. Please bring your own Civil War finds to share with the club. The meeting is at East Coast Wings Bar and Grill restaurant, 1579 A-B, New Garden Road, Greensboro, 27410 at 9:00 a.m.
Odds & Ends:
* Keep on the lookout for a club hunt location. An American Silver Eagle will be awarded to any member who secures a club hunt at a qualifying location.
* If you find and return a valuable item to their owner you are eligible for the Randy Woolbright Community Service Award.
Agenda: Oct. Meeting
50/50 raffle (buy tickets before meeting - see Becky Craddock)
9:00 a.m. - Call to Order
Introduce guests
Read Code of Ethics
Treasurer's Report
Committee Reports.
Web page - Carole Kaplan
Newsletter - Jim Prettyman
Liaison - Mc McAtee
Annual Picnic & Seeded Hunt - Jim Spivey
Orientation - Robert Underwood
Club Hunt - Robert Underwood
By Laws - Jeffrey Blackburn
Membership - Rodney Joslin
President's Report – Rodney Joslin
Civil War Finds Presentation – Robert Underwood
50/50 winner
Adjournment
President, Rodney Joslin
Minutes for ONSD Club Meeting,
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Attendees:
Jim Spivey, Chris Smith (joined today), Becky Craddock, Skylar Craddock. Tim Pierce, Tracy Smith, James Prettyman. Mac MaAtee, Jerry Gilliam, Joe Rappa, Carole Kaplan, Robert Underwood, Rick Volinski, Maddie Volinski, Gerald Reel, Rodney Joslin, Susan Neubauer, Wayne Clodfelter, Jody Sanders, Thom Metz
- Request to account for silver eagle coins with the treasurer. As one is given away, needs to be deducted from the assets. 7 half dollars
- Carole Kaplan volunteered for the Communications Committee
- Read Code of Ethics
- No old business to discuss
- Treasures report. $2597.19 starting. $20 from 50/50 last month. 10 interest. $2617.29 total income
- New business
- Thom Metz volunteered and will head the prize committee
- Joe Rappa volunteered for the Nominating Committee
- TV Fox 8 wants to video a seeded hunt
- Dates for the seeded hunt are: May 16 – 1st choice, June 6 – 2nd choice, June 13 – 3rd choice
- Jim Spivey will be in charge of the seeded hunt and Becky Craddock will volunteer for the picnic
- Facebook and web site are up and running
- James Prettyman is in charge of the newsletter
- Robert Underwood would like to host a class on historical research in the new library in Mayodan, NC. Has to sign up for the room space. He will get a date to us later. Anyone interested in attending, please let Robert know. The meeting will be on a Saturday but not a ONSD Saturday.
- Upcoming hunt in Burlington hopefully in October. 3.24 acres, dates back to 1848, owned by the Scott Family. Rodney Joslin will update when he secures a date
- Carole will send members an email when more information is available
- Suggested using Survey Monkey for committee voting next January
- Decided to do “Best Find” every month
- 50/50 collected $52.00 total
New member joined today – Chris Smith from Jamestown
Best find for this summer was a gold coin ring found by Wayne Clodfelter
Name tag winner was Jerry Gilliam
Winner of 50/50 was Tim Pierce. He won $26.00 and donated his winnings back to ONSD
MINUTES OF MEETING AUGUST 30, 2014
Mal Kaplan approved the minutes and Joseph Rappa seconded. The minutes were not read but they were published in the bulletin. The treasurer reported that we have an ending balance of $2597.19.
Old Business – we had a round table discussion which was well received.
Under New Business the board we discussed that the membership is about the same as last year.
Pete Nowack from Randleman, NC introduced himself as the newest member.
Jim Spivey spoke about the seeded hunt that we usually have on Memorial Day weekend and discussed changing the date. We will vote next month on a different date. He will give us 3 possible dates to vote on.
We also talked about the Christmas Party and we will ask Becky to head this up as she did such a great job in years past. We will have breakfast as before. Carole Kaplan made a motion to keep doing this and Pat Romano seconded it. We will also make a decision at the next meeting whether to have it on Dec 6 or Dec 13. There may be construction issues at the place we meet and Susan will look into this and let us know.
Rodney Joslin is working on a hunt site near Burlington and will let us know at next meeting.
Pat Romano is going to donate some military knee pads for the seeded hunt. He also has some to sell for $10 a pair.
We had a round table discussion on hunting sites and how people hunt and where. Some of the suggestions were to get information from the library and on the internet. Places to look are playgrounds, ball fields, schools, Google maps,Google Earth and knock on doors. NCpostcards.com is a great site to look up parks and do information for research. Rodney did a slide presentation on different sites for property information. He explained what GIS is all about. Every county in NC has one of these sites for property information. GIS stands for geographic Information Services.
Thom Metz showed us Treasure Hunter’s Handbook by Andy Sabisch which he believes is a wonderful book on hunting.
It was suggested that someone compile a list of internet sites for the newsletter.
The 50/50 Raffle Winner was won by Mal Kaplan.
We were reminded that if you find a site we will give an American Eagle Silver Dollar to that person.
Meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted by Carole Kaplan.
July 26, 2014
The meeting was called to order at 9:00am and the minutes from June were approved. Treasurer's Report showed an ending balance of $2555.09.
Under old business, we accepted the resignation of William Purkey as president. William moved to Clemmons, NC but will still be an active member of our club. Thank you William for all you service to this club.
The new president is Rodney Joslin and Thom E Metz is the new vice president.
Robert Underwood advised us that the exhibit at Mendenhall Plantation was a success. ONSD will make a $50 donation to the Mendenhall Planation. Shawn Rogers invited us to come back.
We welcomed new member, Gerald Reel from Lexington, NC
The 50/50 raffle earned the club $22.00. Mal Kaplan was the winner.
A suggestion was made to have a "class" to learn how to use your metal detector.
It was also suggested to see if there is someone who sells metal detectors to teach a class on how to use them.
A suggestion was made to put a "chat site" on our website. This way the members have a way to hook up with someone to hunt with.
We had a "round table" discussion which was very informative. We concluded that we need new places to hunt for the club and for the members to please look for hunt sites.
The name tag winner was Carole Kaplan and she won a silver half dollar.
Mac and Jim found a Navy belt plate to be donated to the Naval Academy at the Annapolis Museum . Article in the American Diggers magazine. Never been seen. Only speculation on it.
The Old North State Detectorists
is an association of ethical metal detecting hobbyists
Located in the Piedmont-Triad area of central North Carolina
We will search your yard or homestead to find and recover lost items and relics. Have you found something and are just curious what it is? Contact us!
Metal Detecting is our hobby. The fact that you can't predict what you'll find every time you hunt makes metal detecting fun and rewarding. Some items uncovered might include nails, discarded pieces of iron and wire, keys, bottle caps, shotgun shell casings, jar lids of all types, and pulltabs, which we call trash or junk. Then there are times you will locate some sort of jewelry item or clad coin and occasionally that treasured old silver coin or historical artifact.
Call us if you've lost that wedding ring or jewelry in the yard or lake. Our members have a multitude of different styles of land & water metal detector machines to search lawns, gardens, underwater locations near shore, and boat docks. Deep ground searches up to 30 feet in depth can be performed with our 2-box style deep seeking detector. While searching your property, metal trash such as old rusted nails, bits of lead, aluminum, and iron will be removed at no charge.
Call William Purkey at 336-855-7034 or email wwpurkey@aol.com
See our Historical & Archaeological Work page for locations where the Old North State Detectorists have helped locate, recover, and preserve history for future generations.
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Guests are always welcome!
Be sure to check the Calendar of Events page for the latest information and location map..
Occasionally, a club meeting will be held in the field at a hunt site prior to the start time.
Members will be emailed the location and address of secret hunt sites several days prior to the event. Open site hunts will be displayed on the web page with a location map and weather forcast box.
Guests are welcome to attend the meetings and observe the hunts, but must be a current club member to participate.