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African Diaspora Archeology: A Collaboration with Descendants.
Maryland Archeology Month 2024

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African Diaspora Archeology: A Collaboration with Descendants.
Maryland archeology has many stakeholders including the archeologists themselves, government agencies dedicated to preserving cultural...
Co-Chairs, Maryland Archeology Month Committee
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The Archeology of Harriet Tubman's Birthplace
In the spring of 2020, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Black Water National Wildlife Refuge, purchased a parcel of land on Peter’s Neck...
Julie M. Schablitsky
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Engaging the Descendant Community of Catoctin Furnace.
In 2014, the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society (CFHS) began a search to identify the descendant community of enslaved and free African...
Elizabeth Anderson Comer, Catoctin Furnace Historical Society
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Laurel Cemetery Memorial Project
On Belair Road in East Baltimore, there is a shopping center directly across the street from Clifton Park. The establishment is well...
Elgin Klugh and Isaac Shearn
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Learning from Descendants of Jesuit Enslavement.
I spent years of graduate study poring over technical reports, geographic information systems (GIS) datasets, and archival documents...
Laura Masur
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Witnesses of Wallville: Documenting a Rural Southern Maryland Community.
Following the Civil War, newly emancipated Black Marylanders found themselves negotiating a world filled with both opportunities and...
Alex Glass, Patricia Samford, and Scott Strickland
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Descendants and Archaeologists Investigating the Dorsey Site in Sugarland, Maryland.
Sugarland, Maryland is a post-emancipation community founded in 1871. Early founding families like the Dorseys helped create this new...
Tara L. Tetrault and Suzanne Johnson
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St. Mary's Cemetery - Why Collaboration in Archeology Matters.
Helen Keller once said, “alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” This statement has never been truer than the...
Kelly Palich and Deacon Allen Greene
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Field Session Teaster - Hunting the Maryland Monster
This year the Annual Field Session will be held at the Oldtown I site (18AG9), just east of Cumberland in Allegany County. It’s been over...
Matthew D. McKnight
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