Wake 250: Artifacts from Archaeological Digs in Rolesville by Michael Baile

Name: Wake 250: Artifacts from Archaeological Digs in Rolesville by Michael Baile
Start: 2026-03-16T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-16T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Mordecai Historic Park Classroom in the Visitors Center

Schedule

Mon Mar 16 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Mordecai Historic Park Classroom in the Visitors Center | Raleigh, NC

Michael Bailey, President of the Historic Rolesville (NC) Society, will dicuss the 18th-century artifacts that he has uncovered.
About this Event

Michael Bailey, President of the Rolesville (NC) Historical Society, will dicuss the 18th-century artifacts that he has uncovered in the vicinity of Rolesville NC.

More details on the program are to come.

Mike Bailey is the founding and current president of the Historic Rolesville Society (HRS), a local non-profit organization. Mike served in the US Navy and has over 20 years of experience in the life sciences sector. He currently works as a Senior Validation Engineer with KBI Biopharma. He also has over 25 years of scuba diving experience and has volunteered his underwater diving services for the Youngsville Dive Rescue Team out of Franklin County, where he implemented and trained divers for underwater metal detecting. He has a real knack for searching for and finding lost history.

Mike is a Raleigh native who grew to love history by discovering lost artifacts with a metal detector in hand during his childhood in northern Wake County. He still searches today successfully documenting local history. The artifact collection has grown over the decades, and many of the artifacts are displayed in the Little House Museum in Rolesville, NC. Local history is vast and fascinating, especially when looked at along with physical clues from the past. This type of investigation leads to thinking more deeply about the land and ground we live on.

Mike enjoys sharing this history with others. It is a history which spans thousands of years from native Americans through the period when Wake County was being formed, and after. Some of the artifacts are among the area's oldest, and each artifact shares a story of its creation, purpose, and use.

On a side note, Mike did not like history in school, but once he started finding it, interest, research, and intrigue developed, helping him to become a true local history detective.

Registration for the event is required, and no refunds will be issued unless we must cancel the event.