October 7, 2010

Hearing About an Early Prince George's County Town

Mike Lucas
At the October 6 CCAS meeting, Dr. Michael Lucas described the historic archaeological activities taking place at Mount Calvert Historical and Archaeological Park in Prince George's County.  Mount Calvert includes part of Charles Town, the first county seat of Prince George's County.  Charles Town was established in 1684 and gradually disappeared after 1721 when it was no longer the county seat .  Mike showed details of some of the excavations and indicated what the excavations could tell us about the type of buildings that had been there and how those buildings were used.  

Mount Calvert Excavation

Mike is an archeologist at Prince George's County, Natural and Historic Research Division of  Maryland National Capital Parks and Planning Commission.

Mount Calvert offers Public Archaeology programs from April through October.  To volunteer or for more information you can e-mail Mike at Michael.Lucas@pgparks.com.

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