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TEXAS COUNCIL TREASURE SHOW
March 10th-11th, 2012
Bryan Texas
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West Plantation Hunt on Feb 11, 2012.
Directions from: I-45 at FM 2920 in Spring To: 500 Highway 156, Point Blank (Lake Livingston) TX 60 miles, 1 hour 15 minutes.
Take I-45 North about 27 miles. Just north of Willis, take exit 98 to Hwy 75. Continue on Hwy 75 10 miles. Turn right onto FM 2296 .
Continue on FM 2296 7.5 miles. Turn right onto Hwy 190. Continue on Hwy 190 13.8 miles. Turn right onto Hwy 156.
Go 1 mile on Hwy 156. Just past Wilderness road, look for the white fence on the right. The Plantation gate code is “1836”.
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CLUB HUNT (Tenative)
April 2012
Dates to be determined
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HOUSTON CLUB OPEN HUNT
Feb 26th, 2012
Stewart beach
$150.00 early registration
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CLUB HUNT WAS A SUCCESS
Special thanks to Blaine and Cindy for hosting the club hunt.
Tim and Cory did an excellent job once again as hunt masters.
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PAST HUNTS & EVENTS
The club hunt at Blaine and Cindys house was exciting. Tim and Cory put together a great hunt. There were lots of prizes awarded. Thanks Blaine and Cindy for allowing us to hold hunt at your house.
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In addition to our monthly meetings, we also have club hunts. We are planning a Beach Hunt in the near future.
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| One of our members, Ronnie, at a hunt in houston last summer. |
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| Lee at last summers hunt. |
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| Club Member Trey Baker |
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| Club Members Wayne Morin & Doug Powell |
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| Montgomery County Artifacts Recovery Club |
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| Lost Treasure Magazine |
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| Run by Club Member Doug Powell |
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| Western & Eastern Treasures |
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| Texas Council of Treasure Clubs |
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| Federation of Metal Detecting Clubs |
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| Houston Archeology & Recovery Club |
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| Metal Detecting Hobby Talk Site |
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| "LIKE" US on Facebook |
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| Chris Burroughs The Beep Goes on |
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| CLUB MEMBER MARK TOLLETT |
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The Handbook of Texas Online: Extensive information of Texas history, towns, persons, events. Very detailed!
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
Historical Texas maps: free downloadable maps, dating 1690 – 1950’s.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/texas.html
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/maps/index.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/texas/
http://www.texmaps.com/texas-historical-maps.html
1870s – 1890’s Texas Bird’s Eye view, from the Amon Carter museum, includes Houston, Galveston, Brenham, Victoria, La Grange, and most Texas cites:
http://www.birdseyeviews.org/browse.php?city_select=all_cities&max_results=60
Sandborn Fire Insurance maps. Available for all US states 1867 – 1950’s gives, very detailed maps, block by block of urban areas of the buildings, wells, water ways, roads, railroads, etc. The Texas maps are available at:
http://sanborn.umi.com/cgi-bin/auth.cgi?command=AccessOK
It will prompt for a user ID, contact your local Harris or Montgomery County library to gain access.
Aerial Satellite photos:
Google Earth: http://earth.google.com/
Terra Server: http://www.terraserver.com/
Mapquest http://www.mapquest.com
Texas County tax records: (appraisal districts)
use to determine who owns a property to contact for permission, with detailed current maps.
Harris http://www.hcad.org/
Montgomery http://www.mcad-tx.org/html/records.html
Galveston https://actweb.acttax.com/act_webdev/galveston/index.jsp
Liberty http://clientdb.trueautomation.com/clientdb/main.asp?id=41
Walker http://www.walkercountyappraisal.com/search%20tips.htm
Brazoria http://www.brazoriacad.org/
Chambers http://www.chamberscad.org/
Fort Bend http://www.fbcad.org/Appraisal/PublicAccess/
Official records search of Revolutionary war
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Revolutionarywar.html
Daughters of the Republic of Texas
http://www.drtl.org/Links/index.asp
Official records search of the Union and Confederate armies
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.monographs/waro.html
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