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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 75 Print image (40K) |
| 66 worldviews of individual characters will be the cornerstone of our living history program, and will produce in-depth understanding, for the first time, of the lives and contributions of the slave community at Carroll's Hundred. For the past two-and-a-half years, the Foundation has been conducting an archaeological excavation centered on a 1760s greenhouse at Carroll's Hundred. The excavation is part of a larger effort to recreate the landscape as a context for interpreting daily life on a mid-Atlantic iron plantation. To date, the entire foundation of the greenhouse has been excavated, and is being studied with thousands of objects having been unearthed which we are in the process of adding to a database. The greenhouse was adjoined on the western side by other buildings. Documentary evidence suggests that one of these buildings was a "pinery" for growing pineapples, and another may have been a slave quarter. Correspondence between George Washington at Mount Vernon and Mrs. Carroll is the source of our information which supports this idea. Washington received detailed plans for the design of his greenhouse at Mt. Vernon from Mrs. Carroll through her cousin, Tench Tilghman. The greenhouse at Carroll's Hundred |