300-Year-Old Slave Quarters Found in Maryland

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of 300-year-old slave quarters at a historic plantation in Southern Maryland.


They are now recovering artifacts that lay buried in farm fields within Newtowne Neck State Park in Saint Mary's County — a stone’s throw from an 18th-century brick manor once occupied by Jesuit missionaries.

The archaeologists are from the Maryland State Highway Administration and St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

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