I sent a new fieldwork video to our You Tube channel. It will take a few hours to show up but this is the perfect time to rewatch last year's videos while you wait.
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Regular updates of the Port Tobacco Archaeological Project. The Project is sponsored by the Archeological Society of Maryland, the Society for the Restoration of Port Tobacco, the Southern Maryland Heritage Area Consortium, Preservation Maryland, and Preserve America.
Welcome
Welcome to the Port Tobacco Archaeological Project Blog. Here you will find regular updates regarding fieldwork, labwork, archival research, and volunteer opportunities.
The Project accepts volunteers of all ages and abilities. If you would like to be involved please contact us. We need volunteers to help with all aspects of the project. We also encourage you to consider joining the Society for the Restoration of Port Tobacco and the Archeological Society of Maryland to help support this project.
The Project accepts volunteers of all ages and abilities. If you would like to be involved please contact us. We need volunteers to help with all aspects of the project. We also encourage you to consider joining the Society for the Restoration of Port Tobacco and the Archeological Society of Maryland to help support this project.
Calendar
A Google calendar of events at and related to Port Tobacco can be found here.
Project Website
Related Links
- Another Article on Burch House Restoration
- Archeology Society of Maryland
- Article on Burch House Rehabilitation
- Baynet.com Article on PTAP
- Center for Historic and Military Archaeology at Heidelberg University
- Charles County Archaeological Society
- Charles County Chapter of the Archeological Society of Maryland
- Charles County Planning
- Gibb Archaeological Consulting
- Grave Concerns Cemetery Preservation and Restoration
- Maryland Historical Trust
- Maryland Independent Article (2007)
- Maryland Independent Article on Moore's Lodge
- Maryland Independent Article on Port Tobacco Cemetery
- Maryland Independent Article on So MD Archaeology
- Port Tobacco Municipal Site
- Preservation Maryland
- Preserve America
- Southern Maryland Heritage Area Consortium
- Southern Maryland Resource Conservation and Development
- Washington Post Article (2003)
- Wikipedia: Port Tobacco
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- road
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- spiritualism
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- St. Charles Hotel
- St. Columba Lodge
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- St. Mary's City
- St. Nicholas
- St. Thomas Manor
- stable
- staffordshire slipware
- stage coach
- Stagg Hall
- steamboat
- Stephen Potter
- Steve Lohr
- Stevenson University field school
- stoneware
- stratigraphy
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- tablewares
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- tent sites
- Thanksgiving
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- Thomas Jefferson
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- tobacco trade
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- topography
- tornado
- total station
- Town Plat of 1729
- trade bead
- transfer print
- Transitional period
- traveling exhibit
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- turkey
- turtle
- typology
- U.S. Infantry
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- Union Army
- Union encampments
- Union Hotel
- unit
- University of Delaware
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- US Army Corps of Engineers
- utensil
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- Villa Julie College
- village square
- volunteer
- Wade House
- Wade Store
- wagon boxes
- Walter A. Plecker
- Walter Bowie
- War of 1812
- Warehouse Landing
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- Washington
- Washington Burch
- water screening
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- well
- Westerwald
- wharfinger
- wheelwright
- whieldonware
- white salt glaze
- whiteware
- Wig Curler
- wiki
- Williamsburg
- wine bottle
- wine bottle seal
- wine glass
- wolves
- workshop
Reading List
- Chamlee, R. Z. J. (1990) Lincoln's Assassins: A Complete Account of their Capture, Trial, and Punishment. Macfarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina.
- Kihl, Kim (1982) Port Tobacco: A Transformed Community. MacLay & Associates, Baltimore.
- Lee, J.B. (1994) The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. W.W. Norton & Company, New York.
- Shomette, D. G. (2000) Lost Towns of Tidewater Maryland. Cornell Maritime Press, Centreville, MD.
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