The Lost Towns Project, in collaboration with Anne Arundel County’s Office of Planning and Zoning, has recently completed two online resources on African American history in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Check them out by clicking on the pictures below. African American Voices, Memories and Places: A Four Rivers Heritage Trail This virtual trail and its companion guide highlight publicly
We asked Catonsville High School senior and 2022 intern Abby Shackelford. Here is what she had to say: I first discovered the Lost Towns Project in a Maryland Archaeology Month pamphlet I picked up while on a college tour at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Originally, I had hoped to find something closer to home,
This is the sixth in a series of posts highlighting our awesome summer interns! “My name is Nicole Six, I have a BA in Archaeology and Ancient History from Durham University in the UK. “I have a special interest in zooarchaeology so I’ve been identifying and cataloguing faunal remains from the Bob Ogle Collection. The remains date from
This is the sixth in a series of posts highlighting our awesome summer interns! “Hi! I am Abby Shackelford. I am a senior at Catonsville High School, and I plan to major in archaeological studies or anthropology in college. Most recently, I have been working at Arden, a mid-19th century plantation. We have been digging shovel test pits around
Contributed by Lost Towns Project summer intern Tyler Wilson This summer, I worked on a project to research, excavate, and document 19th-century Black households in Anne Arundel County, Maryland to create a more inclusive history. These households were inhabited by both enslaved and free African Americans before and after emancipation. As an intern on this