I have been hunting Whitetail Deer & Wild Turkey in the Northern Neck of Virginia for the better part of 15 years. Having known a few of the club members from Wicomico Hunt Club, in November of 2005 I was invited to attend the Annual Fall Family Picnic & hunt as a guest the week of Thanksgiving. After attending the picnic and hunting a few days with the club I can honestly say that it was truly an experience of a life time. I enjoyed the friendship of all the club members, the hospitality and most of all hunting deer with hounds. This was new to me because in New Jersey we are not permitted to hunt deer with hounds. Even though I’m considered a Yankee from New Jersey, I have always been treated as one of the clubs own and to this day have made many life long friends. I became a full active member in the spring of 2006 and I look forward to the start of shotgun deer season & spring gobbler season more now then ever before.
       

One of our long time fourth generation members Wayne Ketterman best describes Wicomico Hunt Club history. Wayne’s first day hunting with Wicomico was November of 1965. Wayne was only 16 years old and his dad had been invited to hunt by his uncle and aunt who were club members at the time. Back then the club was called Robins Mill Rod & Gun Club, after an old Mill-Pond that was located in Gloucester County. The clubhouse was located at this millpond and all the hunters would drive from Gloucester to Lancaster and Northumberland Counties to hunt, as this is where most of the hunting land was.
       
Jim & Margie Misenheimer were running the club at this time and I believe were part of the original founders of the club. After the 1965 hunting season, the owner of the clubhouse sold the house and land so the members had to re-locate. We found a house in the town of Whitestone that we could lease and be closer to the hunting grounds. We had to do extensive re-modeling to this place including digging an outside toilet. I guess we did too good of a job because the owner decided to sell it after we had used it for only one season.
       
The members then decided to form a Corporation, sell shares of stock and buy their own clubhouse. We then purchased an old farmhouse and a few acres of land from Chesapeake Corporation located on Route 605 in Northumberland County. We hunted out of this clubhouse from 1967 until 1990 when it caught on fire and burned down.
       
In the meantime, sometime in the late 1970’s or early 1980’s the club split up and some of the members that left took the Robins Mill Rod & Gun Club name with them. The clubhouse was located in the Wicomico area, so we re-named our club Wicomico Hunt Club. The members who split off and took the Robins Mill name, folded after only one season. After the clubhouse burned down in 1990, we hunted the following season out of camping trailers and motor homes. At this time we were invited to go over to Laura Edwards’s property in Regina and build another clubhouse where we still are today. Some of our existing members and some of the land we hunt today are from a merger with Breezy Point Hunt Club that was run by Virgil Pittman.
       
At the present time there are four generations of the Ketterman Family that have been members of Wicomico Hunt Club.