Ross Fisher will open the NC Treasure Hunters Campground soon. Tim says they already welcome many visitors who are curious to see the ship but they have plans to expand it to make it more public. The Fishers are preserving the artifacts they find with a small museum on site and plan to rebuild the two-story vessel. We found an old boot heel, you know, where the guys were working and just all kinds of really unique artifacts." Inside that mason jar was a silver spoon where somebody had been eating. One of the coolest things that we found was right below where the deck was and it had rotted out. Since the discovery, the father and son and a dedicated crew of friends have worked with the state and the EPA to dig and carefully expose the dredge discovering treasures along the way. The boat was used in the early 1900s during the gold rush in the eastern part of the state and later abandoned only to be discovered more than a century later. The Fishers discovered the 94-foot long vessel is The Robinson Gold Dredge. In that time, Tim and son Ross Fisher have discovered some artifacts and have made plans for the future of the vessel.ĪBC11 first visited The Fishers in 2019 after a drought exposed part of the wooden boat buried in the mud on their 17 acres of land in Hollister. ![]() (WTVD) - It's been two years since a Nash County father and son discovered a buried ship on their land and, since then, they've done a lot of digging. Back in 2019, a drought exposed part of the wooden boat buried in the mud on their 17 acres of land in Hollister.
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