Port Tobacco Archaeological ProjectRegular 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.Town Layout- September 17, 2008 I'm keeping it short today because we have a whole bunch of stuff to assemble for the next few blogs, some archaeological, some archival. I'm trying to reconstruct the original Charles Town plat prepared by Robert Hanson in 1729 and Pete has some Contact Period stuff to talk about.Report writing for the June field session began in earnest yesterday and we hope to have a completed draft by the end of next month. We've got some pretty exciting stuff, but it takes awhile to pull it all together...http://porttobacco.blogspot.com/2008/09/town-layout.html |