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| James Gibb |
On September 12 at the first CCASM meeting this fall Dr. James Gibb talked about Fort Hollingsworth, a small breastwork on the Hollingsworth property in Cecil County, Maryland. He explained the reasons the local citizens felt the need to erect a fort at this location in April 1813 as a means to protect their property and the Upper Chesapeake Bay from the British during the War of 1812. After the war the fort
was demolished, and the land returned to farming.
Jim showed how geophysical methods were used to locate the fort and how field investigations during as Archeological Society of Maryland field session ground-truthed those findings.
James Gibb is the principal of Gibb Archaeological Consulting as well
as a Smithsonian Research Associate. Jim is also one of the founding
members of CCASM.
Attendance: 11
