The story of the founding of colonial Maryland and the influence of the Calvert family. "Liberty of Conscience: The Founding of Maryland" documents the fascinating stories surrounding the founding of ...

Step into the kitchen at the Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation at Historic St. Mary's City, and the year instantly becomes 1661. As Mistress Rebecca Spray, Godiah Spray's wife, prepared the midday meal ...

Archaeologists working on the site of a colonial fort in Maryland found a concave, near-rectangular metal scrap that they say was once a part of a colonial armor set. The metal piece was an iron ...

Notley Hall was a kingly palace in early colonial Maryland, overlooking the Wicomico River. Today, the home’s brick foundation is under a farm field, which was recently located and mapped using a ...

Archaeologists in Maryland have discovered the lost site of St. Mary’s Fort, the state’s first settlement. Built in 1634, the 387-year-old defensive garrison was just the fourth English settlement in ...

Local historian Michael Morgan relates that back in 1774 colonial Delawareans engaged in armed conflict with Maryland settlers over who would populate what is now Southern Delaware. The onset of the ...

Researchers in Maryland discovered the grave of a teenager who may have been one of the first European colonists to come to the New World. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...