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This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the early nineteenth century, when African Americans were legally relegated to the extreme margins of society and the economy, Baltimore’s ship caulkers were a rare example of free blacks who dominated a skilled trade. The Ship Caulkers’ Houses, located at 612 and 614...
Digging for the War of 1812 in Patterson Park, Baltimore (2016)
When the British threatened Baltimore in 1814, the citizens did not panic or surrender. Instead, with the help of militia from all over Maryland and beyond, they rushed to reinforce their city’s defenses with earthworks and whatever artillery could be scavenged. The anchor of the defense was high ground known as Hampstead Hill. While most of the city’s defenses have disappeared under its expanding neighborhoods, a section on Hampstead Hill survived because it was preserved in what became...
Divided: Material Landscapes of Labor in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore City and County, Maryland (2016)
Like the strikes of the late nineteenth century, especially the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, tensions arising from chronic inequality and marginalization once again led to protests and demonstrations in Baltimore in April 2015. Areas of Baltimore remain alienated along racial and class lines that serve a capitalist process driven by the maximization of profit. This paper examines how this same process resulted in the stratification of immigrant and African American communities in Baltimore...
The Global, the Local, and the Personal: Searching for Meaning and Relevancy Through Baltimore’s Past (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In his study of the modern world, Charles Orser has suggested that archaeologists should dig locally, but think globally. Relating different scales across space and time allows for an understanding of the linkages between the past and the present and the connectivity of the modern world. Through...
Herring Run: A Community Based Archaeology Project in Northeast Baltimore (2016)
The Herring Run Archaeology Project is a low-cost, community-based archaeology program that runs almost entirely through volunteer efforts. This paper will present the results of our first year of research and fieldwork, the successes and failures of the project, and the need for new models for public archaeology in Baltimore City. We'll also discuss the ways in which the seeds of the modern neighborhoods that surround Herring Run Park were planted in its earliest European- and African-American...
In the Name of Progress": Urban Renewal and Baltimore’s "Highway to Nowhere (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Urban Erasures and Contested Memorial Assemblages" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The nation-wide wave of urban highway construction of the postwar era dramatically changed the appearance and structure of American cities. Throughout the 1950s-1970s, highway construction cut through inner-cities across the country, devastating entire neighborhoods, and dislocating hundreds of thousands of residents—overwhelmingly...
It is Christmas and the House is on Fire: Understanding Labor Relations in Late Nineteenth-Century Baltimore (2017)
On Christmas Day 1877, a fire spread through a block of homes in the small quarry town of Texas in Baltimore County, Maryland. Although the fire destroyed the large stone rowhouse building, the flames also sealed the material record of the lives of a group of laborers and their families at that moment in time. Examining labor relations within the town of Texas and the wider Baltimore area in the latter half of the nineteenth century places these artifacts in context and helps to explain the...
One House, Many Homes: Examining the Upton Mansion of West Baltimore (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 1838 Greek Revival-styled Upton Mansion currently stands vacant like many other houses in West Baltimore. Like the neighborhood, the uses of the building have evolved over time, serving originally as a country estate on the edge of Baltimore to more recently a city school building. The property was also used as an early radio...
Profit and Loss: Forced Labor at the Northampton Iron Furnace (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Materialities of (Un)Freedom: Examining the Material Consequences of Inequality within Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From the 1760s to the 1820s, convicts, indentured servants, and enslaved peoples worked and died producing and forging iron near Baltimore, Maryland. The iron was crucial to the growth of the British Empire, the American Revolution, and the building of the town of...
Race and Alienation in Baltimore's Hampden (2016)
The recent uprising in West Baltimore took place less than two miles from the neighborhood of Hampden, but, with a few notable exceptions, it made little impact there. Writers and historians have long understood the Baltimore neighborhood of Hampden to be culturally, geographically, and racially isolated from the city in which it is embedded. Archaeological investigations performed there have helped to illustrate how class and power relationships changed over time, ultimately reinforcing that...
Unmasking Joppa Town: Attempting to locate a colonial port town near Baltimore (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Joppa Town was a bustling port in the 18th century and the county seat of Baltimore County. The influential town included a jail, courthouse, church, warehouses, and residences. Like so many colonial ports, silting of the harbor doomed access to the town, and by 1768, the county seat was transferred to Baltimore...