2022 Port Tobacco Market Day

On a hotter than normal Saturday and after having been rained out on a previous Saturday, the Society for the Restoration of Port Tobacco's Thirteenth Annual Market Day was held May 21 in Historic Port Tobacco Village.  As on all the previous Market Days CCASM had a tent at the event.  There were local craft vendors, the garden club plant sale, a white elephant sale, and tables for various "history-related" nonprofits.  And what would a market day outside a courthouse be without musicians?  There was even an area where you could get vaccinated. 

Market Day is always a great day for sharing information (both ways) about archaeology. 

CCASM put out its display highlighting some of the history of  Port Tobacco including some of the results from archaeology done at Port Tobacco around 2008.  We also had information relating to CCASM and Maryland Archaeology Month (even if it is no longer April).  A visit to the CCASM tent would not be complete without there being some activity.  Most years at Market Day our activity is washing artifacts.  This year the artifacts were glass fragments recovered from Port Tobacco Area B Feature 1 during the excavations done prior to the reconstruction of the Courthouse.

Start of day, waiting and washing

No longer waiting, but still washing

Thanks to Elsie, Linda, Peggy, and Carol for representing CCASM at the event.