Maryland Department of Planning
Partners with High School Students
to Study and Present Artifacts
(February 27, 2019) BALTIMORE, MD – In the late 1800s, five Baltimore Methodist Episcopal churches worked together to establish a retirement home for aged and needy members and parishioners. The Aged Men and Women’s Home was run by a board of African American directors and operated until 1910.
During an archaeological investigation in 1980 before construction of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Baltimore Branch, the cellar of the home and a privy filled with late 19th and early 20th century artifacts were discovered.
The artifacts are owned by the State of Maryland and housed at Planning’s Maryland Archaeological Conservation (MAC) Laboratory at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum in Calvert County, where staff works with local high school students to record and study the artifacts, which will be on display.
WHO
Students from Huntingtown High School’s Archaeology Club
Archaeologists from Planning's MAC Laboratory
Local Residents
WHAT
Students will present findings of artifacts studied from the late 19th/early
20th century
WHEN
Thursday, February 28, 2019
9:30 a.m.
WHERE
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Baltimore Branch
502 South Sharp Street
Baltimore, Maryland 20201
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***Media attending will need to contact Margaret Burns at 410-576-3323 in advance to gain access to the bank parking lot.
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