Two significant archaeological sites have been discovered at Tufton farm, which is located near Monticello and was once owned by Thomas Jefferson. The two sites include remnants of enslaved field hands’ homes from the mid-nineteenth century, but the first site was also occupied during Jefferson’s lifetime. Jefferson’s enslaved domestic workers and artisans lived at Monticello, […]

Plans are being made to excavate a shipwreck in the Patuxent River that archaeologists think could be the USS Scorpion, built in 1814 as the flagship of the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, and scuttled by the Navy to keep it out of British hands. A hurricane that occurred in August of 1814 covered the ship with […]