2024 Port Tobacco Market Day - Now MAY 18

 The Society for the Restoration of Port Tobacco will hold its

Fifteenth Annual Market Day
Saturday, May 4 cancelled due to rain 
                 rain date May 18 (9am-2pm)
Port Tobacco Courthouse

8430 Commerce St, Port Tobacco, MD

Free Admission

 

Shop with local vendors
- crafters, artists, authors, antique dealers
- Charles County Garden Club's
   annual plant sale

- Tobacco Barn Distillery
- and more..

 

Take a tour (check for times)
- Port Tobacco Courthouse
- Stagg Hall
- Burch Hall
- One Room School House
- Tobacco Barn Museum

Learn about Archeology
- CCASM will have a table near the Courthouse with an archaeological display and an activity.
  Don't forget to stop by the CCASM table to say hello
- Public Archaeology at Swann Site (see below)

Entertainment (need to check times, etc for May 18)
- First Regiment Dragoons (all day with 3 performances)
- Rick Posey and Mary Mosher with colonial music (10:00 to 10:45)
- Will Yeckley with guitar (11:00 to 11:45)
- Charles County Youth Orchestra (noon to 1:00)
- Will Yeckley with guitar (1:00 to 2:00)
 

PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY  (now May 18 and May 19, 11am-3pm)
Participate in Public Archaeology (or just stop by to see what's going on) at the Swann House Site that is just southwest of the Courthouse.  No experience is necessary.
James Swann, a free man of color, purchased the house and lot in 1843 and operated an inn/oyster house there for over twenty-five years.
Esther Read, Charles County Archaeologist, will be in charge, and CCASM members will be assisting.