We’re posting daily updates on Facebook, so you can follow along with our discoveries, and of course our Archaeology Open House is tomorrow, Saturday April 28th. Drop in between 10 and 3 tomorrow for Baltimore’s most unusual historic house tour! 😉
Updated: Registration is now closed! If you’d like to volunteer, please contact us at herringrunarchaeology@gmail.com to let us know so we can schedule a time. Join us April 22-29 for our Spring dig in Herring Run Park! Just click on the Volunteer Registration link above. You can reach us at herringrunarchaeology@gmail.com with any questions –… Continue reading Volunteer Registration Now Open
On February 1st, the Herring Run Archaeology Project was honored with a 2018 Maryland Preservation Award for Outstanding Individual Leadership. We would like to thank our outstanding volunteer, friend, and all-around wonder woman Irene Smith, for nominating us for this award. We would also like to thank Maryland State Delegate Mary Washington and Maryland State… Continue reading The Herring Run Archaeology Project: 2018 Maryland Preservation Award Recipient
Most artifacts recovered from a site are easy to identify. Broken ceramics that were once part of a serving dish or tea cup, shards of olive-colored glass that were parts of a wine bottle, nails that held down the floorboards of a house that has vanished from the landscape. These artifacts are ubiquitous on historical… Continue reading Small Finds, Big Stories: House Bell
A few years ago, while reviewing interchange improvement plans for the intersection of York Road (MD 45) and I-83 in Parkton, Maryland, I noticed an interesting-looking structure on several historic aerial photographs. I could go into a lengthy explanation here, but let’s just say there were a number of clues that were evident even in… Continue reading The Limping Lady
by Herring Run Archaeology Team Member, Cheryl Fogle-Hatch, Ph.D. This post describes the life of John Broad, the first European settler in present-day Herring Run Park. Although John Broad was only rarely mentioned in historical documents filed at the Maryland State Archives, we know that he was an indentured servant who had become a successful… Continue reading John Broad
Sometimes it’s amazing what you can learn from a single artifact. This wine bottle seal, the only one we’ve recovered so far from the Eutaw Manor House, is an outstanding example of just how much everyday items can reveal about the people who owned them. But first, what even IS a wine bottle seal? The… Continue reading Small Finds, Big Stories: Wine Bottle Seal
Did you know that the woman who invented (or at least popularized) potato chips was from Northeast Baltimore? And from the Eutaw Manor House, specifically? A fortuitous note from Mark Herlong, a researcher in Washington, DC, has led us to some major breakthroughs in our research into the enslaved people who lived at Eutaw, starting… Continue reading Emeline Jones
We wrapped up our third year of fieldwork at the Eutaw Manor site in April (mostly), and after a short break, we’re getting ready for more work this fall. This update will include some of our findings from this year’s fieldwork, and tell you about an upcoming volunteer meetup! 2017 Field Season: During our first… Continue reading An Update and an Invitation
The Herring Run Archaeology Project has just won one of Baltimore Heritage’s 2017 Heritage Preservation Awards! Eternal thanks to all of you who have supported us over the last three years, and have devoted your time and energy to the project – especially our volunteers, who have made the whole thing possible (and so much… Continue reading You Made Us An Award-Winning Project
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