Old North State Detectorists Club

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:

• Submission of membership form and dues for 2017 for all members.
• Election of 2017 club officers 
• Sharing your recent finds

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.

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 25^th. 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 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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Occasionally, a club meeting will be held in the field at a hunt site prior to the start time..
 

Guests are welcome to  attend meetings. You must be an ONSD Club member to participate in the hunts and have a signed membership application on file which includes a liability waiver.