Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past: The View from Southern Maryland

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Contents Preface xii 1. The Bounds of history 1 2. how the Past Became a Place 15 3. The Transient Nature of All Things Sublunary 51 4. Collecting Utopia 89 5. The Past is a rural landscape 113 6. Commemorative hauntings 145 7. Beyond Storytelling 173 Notes 199 Bibliography 237 index 261 Illustrations 1.1. A Tobacco Barn in Southern Maryland before the Buyout 3 1.2. A Tobacco Barn in ruins in Southern Maryland, 2010 4 1.3. A Tobacco field in Southern Maryland before the Buyout 7 1.4. The Southern Maryland region 9 2.1. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Showing the Susquehanna or Carroll farm, 1848 20 2.2. The Susquehanna or Carroll house before its Move to Dearborn in 1941 21 2.3. Dismantling the Susquehanna house before its Shipment to Dearborn 22 2.4. The Susquehanna house reassembled at Greenfield Village 23 2.5. Plan of excavations at the Susquehanna Site, 1987 24 2.6. Distribution of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ceramics 25 2.7. Distribution of Whitewares 25 2.8. Distribution of Bone 26 2.9. Distribution of oyster Shell 26 2.10. Distribution of Brick 28 2.11. Brick foundation Uncovered in the Dwelling’s Parlor yard 28 2.12. interior Gable end Parlor Wall, Susquehanna house 30 2.13. Distribution of eighteenth-Century Wrought Nails 30 2.14. John Pendleton Kennedy by William James hubard 36 2.15. The Christopher rousby Gravestone as it Was found in 1941 40 2.16. An f/A-18f Super hornet Strike fighter Conducts a Supersonic Test flight, 2010 48 3.1. The founding of Maryland, emanuel leutze, c. 1860 52 3.2. Aerial Photograph, St. Mary’s City, Maryland 54 3.3. Trinity episcopal Church, c. 1830 58 3.4. Pencil Drawing of the Mulberry Tree 58 3.5. The leonard Calvert Monument, located on the Site of the Mulberry Tree 59 3.6. Brome house in its original location 60 3.7. The lead Coffins in the Copley Vault 62 3.8. frontispiece, Rob of the Bowl, by John P. Kennedy 65 3.9. William read’s image of the founding 71 3.10. The Seminary Building, Destroyed by fire in 1929 75 4.1. Visitor Center, historic St. Mary’s City 92 4.2. exhibit display, “out of the Wilderness” 99 4.3. exhibit display, “An experiment in Toleration” 101 5.1. The reconstructed State house, Built in 1934 by the State 114 5.2. henry Chandlee forman excavating Sites in St. Mary’s City 117 5.3. Aerial View of the State’s Three hundredth Anniversary Celebration 118 5.4. electricity Comes to Southern Maryland 119 5.5. The Chalk Point Power Plant 120 5.6. Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, lusby, Calvert County, Maryland 121 5.7. A Skiff Coated with oil Near the Steuart Petroleum Storage facility, 1960s 121 5.8. The Thomas Johnson Bridge Connecting St. Mary’s and Calvert Counties 122 5.9. Aerial View of St. Mary’s City and environs, 1958 123 5.10. Plat Showing the “Take-line” in St. Mary’s City 124 5.11. Drawing of the Proposed Shrine of Tolerance at St. Mary’s City 126 5.12. Calvert hall, St. Mary’s College of Maryland 129 5.13. The reconstructed ruin at Pope’s freehold 130 5.14. The original ruins of St. John’s 131 5.15. Move of the Brome-howard house 133 5.16 The former Site of the Brome house 134 5.17. The reconstructed Brick Chapel 135 6.1. The Point lookout lighthouse 149 6.2. Point lookout, Maryland, View of hammond General hospital and U.S. General Depot for Prisoners of War 150 6.3. State and federal Stone Monuments at the Confederate Cemetery 153 6.4. The Point lookout hotel, c. 1920s 154 6.5. fort lincoln as reconstructed by the friends of Point lookout 155 6.6. Traces of Civil War–era roads at Point lookout 156 6.7. Séance held at Point lookout light house, January 1980 163 6.8. fallout 3: Point lookout 165 ...