Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... driving agricultural economies based on tobacco in Virginia and Maryland and on rice along the coasts ...

“This is the earliest colonial archaeological site in Maryland. This is it.” Experts have been hunting for the site for 90 years, but even with some 200 excavations over the last three ...

Buried underground in the middle of an open field, roughly a half-mile inland from St. Mary's River, archaeologists have discovered the remains of Maryland's earliest Colonial site, a 387-year-old ...