![]() ![]() The first group of Europeans to arrive in Maryland included the colony’s first governor, Leonard Calvert, as well as a Catholic priest, Father Andrew White. The city served as the first capital of Maryland and hosted Maryland’s first State House before the capital moved to Annapolis in the 1690s. This drawing shows what the fort may have looked like. In 2021, archaeologists uncovered the long lost fort of St. Kelso, the archaeologist who discovered Jamestown’s lost fort in 1994, told the Post at the time. Mary's site is a “sister colony” to Jamestown, William M. According to a 2021 Washington Post story by Ruane, archaeologists had been looking for the fort since the 1930s. Mary’s was only unearthed two years ago after nearly a century of searching. It is crucial “to have the physical remains of a person who was part of that venture, who lived here, briefly, and died here early.” “It’s a period that we have such little documentation on,” he says. Ruane of the Washington Post that this boy was part of the “vanguard of the Colonial invasion,” possibly arriving on one of the first boats to land along the St. ![]() Travis Parno, acting executive director of Historic St. A statement from the museum and archaeological site suggests that the discovery may constitute one of the oldest burials of a colonist ever found in Maryland. Mary’s City announced last week that they had unearthed the 400-year-old skeleton of a teenage boy. ![]()
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