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4.       A Blanket of cream color with a brown stripe, in two pieces, made by slaves on the "Woodlawn Farm" before  1818, possibly owned by Silas Griffith and Frances Risteau who were married in 1818
A  press  release  in  September,   1999  announced  that  Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum had earned a two-year grant of $173,441   from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.     The grant will  fund  an  innovative partnership  of cultural  institutions  in Calvert County, Anne Arundel County, and Charles County to research  and  present  African  American  perspectives   on   segregated public  school education from   1865  to   1965  (i.e.,  from the end of the Civil War to the height of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement).    The core exhibit will open in April 2000 and will travel to four sites in Maryland over a two-year period with each site adding  its own perspective   using   local   interpretive   materials.
[Excerpts from Testimony and Written Submission of Ms Pamela F. Charshee, Executive Director, The Carroll Park Foundation, CPF]
The  Carroll's  Hundred historical  site  in Baltimore  City represents some  of the  most  significant   18th-century political  and  social