Guest Post: The Slave Dwelling Project Comes to St. Mary’s City!
This Sunday, Joseph McGill will be visiting Historic St. Mary’s City to spend the night at the Duplex Quarter, and give a public lecture the following evening at the Visitor …
The Slave Dwelling Project: Preservation and the African American Past
This weekend, Historic St. Mary’s City will host Joseph McGill, Program Officer at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, who has become the face of the preservation of former slave …
Some Walk Together Updates
[two_third]A few updates and follow up about what’s happening with the Walk Together Project: Juneteenth Lecture Last week, I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at Historic St. Mary’s City …
Challenges of Working on the Brome Howard Inn’s Exhibit
Steven Gentry is an intern at Historic St. Mary’s City from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He has been working this summer to begin planning exhibit panels for the inside …
The Beginnings of the Brome-Howard Inn Exhibits
Steven Gentry is an intern at Historic St. Mary’s City from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He has been working this summer to begin planning exhibit panels for the inside …
Preserving the Duplex Quarter: Current Condition and First Steps
This year, Historic St. Mary’s City received funding from the Maryland Commission for African American History and Culture to convert the still standing duplex slave and tenant quarter into a …
Welcome to “All of us Would Walk Together,” a Digital Exhibit
In 2008, still in the early stages of researching the history of African Americans who had lived at St. Mary’s City during the 19th century, I was alerted by my …