Saturday August 25 nine CCASM members traveled to Historic St Mary's City for a special tour of HSMC's Archaeology Laboratory and Curation Facility. This is where artifacts from Maryland's first colonial capital are cared for and housed.
The Lab is only open to the public once a year during Tidewater Archaeology Weekend. However, Silas Hurry, Curator of Collections and
Archaeological Laboratory Director, gave a special invitation to CCASM members to have a guided tour of this new state of the art facility.
We started in the room where artifacts would be received into the building and followed the artifact's path through this three-story "building". Along the way we saw numerous artifacts and heard a lot about what went into creating this facility. Really interesting.
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| Where artifacts are catalogued |
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| Silas Hurry |
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| On the balcony |
After a seafood lunch several of us visited the St John's Site Museum that preserves the foundation of the home that stood here throughout the 17th-century (
https://hsmcdigshistory.org/pdf/St-Johns.pdf). This was move-in day at St Mary's College and many of the roads were one-way. So Aaron gave us a special escort to the Museum.
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| At St. John's Site Museum |
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| St John's Site within Museum |
CCASM would like to give Silas a special thanks for the tour as well as for facilitating our visit to the St. John's Site Museum.
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