{"id":282664,"date":"2021-03-22T13:45:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=282664"},"modified":"2021-03-22T13:45:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:45:48","slug":"first-colonial-site-in-maryland-discovered-after-90-year-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-colonial-site-in-maryland-discovered-after-90-year-search\/","title":{"rendered":"First Colonial Site In Maryland Discovered After 90-Year Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffirst-colonial-site-in-maryland-discovered-after-90-year-search%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=282664&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2683.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Maryland\u2019s earliest colonial settlement \u2013 and one of the first American colonies \u2013 finally has been discovered after nearly a century of searching.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists Travis Parno and Tim Horsley announced the discovery on Monday, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2021\/03\/22\/maryland-colonial-site-discovered\/?outputType=amp\">reported<\/a>. Parno had been searching for the settlement, St. Mary\u2019s, since 2017, but archeologists have been seeking evidence of the settlement since the 1930s. Parno and Horsley\u2019s discovery was deemed conclusive in late 2019, but the coronavirus pandemic kept them from announcing their find.<\/p>\n<p>Parno, director of research for the organization Historic St. Mary\u2019s City, said the discovery was \u201cthe earliest colonial archaeological site in Maryland.\u201d He was actually at a board game convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on a brief vacation when Horsley texted him to say their work had paid off, the Post reported. Horseley \u201chad been scanning a site a half-mile from St. Mary\u2019s River with ground-penetrating radar that could detect the outlines of ancient buildings,\u201d the outlet reported. From the Post:<\/p>\n<p>Horsley\u2019s scans had revealed the imprint of post holes that formed a large rectangle with a semicircular bastion at one corner.<\/p>\n<p>The scans also showed evidence of what appeared to be dwellings inside the fort, including several that may have been Native American.<\/p>\n<p>Excavation later turned up evidence of the brick cellar of a guardhouse or storehouse, the trigger guard for a musket, and a quartzite arrow head that was 4,500 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Historic St. Mary\u2019s City owns the site of the settlement, which the Post reported was \u201cabout the size of a football field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>William M. Kelso, the archeologist who discovered the lost fort at Jamestown, Virginia in 1994, called Parno and Horsley\u2019s discovery \u201cextremely significant,\u201d adding that it was \u201csort of a sister colony\u201d to Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>As the Post reported, the original 150 colonists who settled at St. Mary\u2019s included English Catholics escaping from Protestant persecution. The original settlement was established in March 1634, making them one of the earliest American settlements, behind Jamestown in 1607, Plymouth in 1620, and Massachusetts Bay in 1630.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement was eventually abandoned, with Maryland\u2019s capital moved to Annapolis some 60 years after the first settlers arrived in the state. The area that had once been the city of St. Mary\u2019s had already produced other archaeological finds, the Post reported, though the actual fort had not been found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1990, experts exhumed three lead-lined coffins containing the remains of Maryland colonial governor Philip Calvert, who died in 1683, his first wife, Anne, and Calvert\u2019s 6-month-old son,\u201d the Post reported. \u201cAnne\u2019s coffin contained sprigs of the memorial herb rosemary, bits of a silk ribbon that may have been used to bind her wrists for burial \u2013 and much of her hair. The baby had suffered from the childhood disease rickets and probably scurvy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists searched for the fort from the 1930s through the 1980s and 90s, but found nothing. The search was put on hold until Parno started it up again.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland\u2019s earliest colonial settlement \u2013 and one of the first American colonies \u2013 finally has been discovered after nearly a century of searching.Archaeologists Travis Parno and Tim Horsley announced the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310927,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2683.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"First Colonial Site In Maryland Discovered After 90-Year Search","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2683.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"First Colonial Site In Maryland Discovered After 90-Year Search","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}