The Mill Swamp/Ralph J. Bunche Community Center Restoration Project

Author(s): Sarah A. Grady

Year: 2019

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Public and Our Communities: How to Present Engaging Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In July 2017, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) partnered with the Mill Swamp community, both located in Edgewater, Maryland, in an effort to restore and preserve the history of their historic Rosenwald type school.  Since 1970, after integration, this building had served the Mill Swamp commnity as their community center.  Progress towards restoring the Center was made since July 2017 in efforts from community members and citizen scientists in archaeology at SERC.  This paper is about joint efforts to reach a common goal to preserve the history and heritage of this building.  Archaeology efforts continue in the area across from the extant school turned community center in the search for the first Freedman's Bureau school built in1865.

Cite this Record

The Mill Swamp/Ralph J. Bunche Community Center Restoration Project. Sarah A. Grady. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449100)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): 278