July | 2025 | Maryland History by the Object
1 post published by Patricia Samford during July 2025| Maryland History by the Object
1 post published by Patricia Samford during July 2025| Maryland History by the Object
Figure 1. Bone mouth guard for a baby bottle with surviving rubber in the center. From the Albemarle Rowhouse site (18BC50/40H-292). This month’s featured artifact is a bone mouth guard, which woul…| Maryland History by the Object
Growing vegetables and fruits, raising livestock, and preserving the food created from these efforts have long been an important part of home economics. During times of national crisis, like the U.…| Maryland History by the Object
In August of 1681 it was reported that there were “…a greate many Gunns shott in the night” at the Piscataway fort near Zekiah Swamp in Charles County (Archives Vol. 17:15). This month’s object (or…| Maryland History by the Object
This month’s archaeological artifact is a small porcelain flush toilet that once graced a child’s toy house (Figure 1). Today, most of the western world take flushing toilets for granted, but they …| Maryland History by the Object
Growing up in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, planes flying overhead has always been a constant. For people in southern Maryland, military planes in particular are a common sight and sound due to the …| Maryland History by the Object
