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| Esther Read |
At the April 17 CCASM meeting Esther Doyle Read shared some research funded by a Southern Maryland National Heritage Grant given to the Friends of Maxwell Hall in 2023. The first half of the grant was to do archival and landscape research.
Esther started with talking about the various owners of the land around Maxwell Hall as well as of the land in the Maxwell Hall Equestrian Park. She next shared how she used land forms to divide the land to fifteen areas and assigned each area a number to indicate how likely that the area would have been occupied by people in the past. CCASM members along with others volunteered to walk and to survey these various areas. Finally she indicated what was found in each area and expanded on what might have been going on at one of the sites recently identified.
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| Divisions |
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| Overview of land and people involved |
Esther Doyle Read is the Charles County Archaeologist (Charles County Planning and Growth) and and Adjunct Lecturer at UMBC.
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| Catching up before the meeting (lots of smiles) |
Thanks to Jim for using his account to set up a Zoom meeting and to Peggy for bringing the hot spot.
Attendance: 11
Note: CCASM members volunteered (in fields and in lab) 211 hrs in 2022 (pre-grant?), 103 hrs in 2023 and 270 hrs in 2024 at Maxwell Hall and Maxwell Hall Equestrian Park.
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