European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse At historic Cost Vert House in Anna Poliy archaeologist found Brick foundation of underground heating system. Annapolis excavations provide insights to 18th-Century life by Donald National geographic a after six Vears of digging that has produced More Ihan Hall a million a staels have come up Wilh a rare portrait of 18lh Century life in Annapolis Iho picturesque capital of Maryland. In Iho Early 1700s. Four speculators bought up almost Hall the property in the colonial port town on the Severn River causing real a Gale prices to soar. It was a time when the Lown it had recently been transformed from a sleepy Chesapeake Day Backwater Inlo a colonial capital was attracting a burgeoning population of skilled workmen looking for new oppor unifies. They Lound instead a Region Iryma to Cope with a Sharp dip in demand for its principal Cash crop tobacco the economic crunch devastated the Middle class and Many people lost their Homes and were forced to become wage earners to support in cry says Mark p Leone a University of Maryland anthropologist by the Lime of the revolution Only a Small percentage of the inherited and if Annapolis was owned by the Middle class " in the 18th Century lavish geometrically designed gardens individual table soiling chamber pots and toothbrushes set the Rich apart irom average an Napolitano. One wealthy merchant Lell 12 do in toothbrushes to his heirs Al a Lime when such luxuries were rare and expensive. Most of Ihulse things became much More common in the Laic 1700s, indicating Hal people were becoming More concerned with personal health and says Leone what we re documenting in Annapolis is the beginning of a More modern Middle class disciplined Way of me. Where individuals Start condom ring to sets of rues governing such things As conduct in the work place personal Hygiene and table manners Leone bases his conclusions on intensive investigation of probate records and recovery of hundreds of thousands of artefacts irom 24 Siles the work has been done by an team headed by Leone. Richard j Dent another University of Maryland anthropologist and Picheo Ogisi Anne e Yentsch ii has been supported by his Lonc Annapolis in the Maryland Humar Liivi Council and the National geographic society the Mot unusual find is the Brick foundation of a saturday july 25. 1967 children s Woollen toys were among artefacts Fauna. Hyp Caust an underground Healing by slim that probably circulated hoi air Loun Indur greenhouse where fruit and tropical plants were grown during the Calcut Winter months it was uncovered in the Calvert House the acc sural Home of one of the Maryland Colony s governors his House has yielded a wealth of Arii facts including two Well preserved bottles of wine fished irom a Well the new owner of the Calvert House has left the hypo cause in place alter recently turning the building Inlo an inn it jests under a Glass floor in a room off the reception area. Fascinating Archo logical finds associated Wilh she Carrolls. Another illustrious Coloma family May Suraco when the University of Maryland learn starts excavating their ancestral Home this summer this year s dig coincides with Chr 250th anniversary of the birth of Chr rfcs Carroll of Carrollton met. Who was born in the Annapolis House one of the wealthiest men in America Carroll risked life and Fortune when he backed the revolution. He was fhe Only roman Catholic to sign the declaration of Independence and he was Iho last signatory to die in 1832, Al age 95. The culverts and the cat Rolls of colonial limes shall might eel at Home today in Annapolis where much of the historical heritage remains. The Industrial revolution thai swept the country after Iho War of 1612 bypassed Iho City and it was spared the factories of co buildings warehouses and tenements Hal obliterated the Beauty of Many other Colon rat can Lars. Many 1sth-Cenlury houses survive in Annapolis and Iho town plan drafted in ig95 by the Colony s governor sir Francrs Nicholson shall dominates she Core of the City Mam thoroughfares Raddle irom iwo Hilly circles upon which rested Iho two main centers of Power fhe stale House and Sianne s anglican Church the circles and buildings survived fhe revolution bul their symbolic relationship crumbled while Public funds supported the construction of Bolh St. Anne s and the stale House before Independence afterwards Only the slate House continued id Mcewe Public says Leone later a now much taller dome on the stale House symbolized the separation of Church and stale the dome still stands opened in 1779, Maryland s stale House is Iho nation s or just capital building in continuous use for a Briel period irom november 1783 until August 1784 the handsome Brick building served As the Capitol of Iho United Stales today s Grassy tree shaded slate House Circle bears scant resemblance to its much larger colonial predecessor a bustling place tilled Wilh Small buildings an outdoor Market an armory and a Large Public privy we re still trying to Ligure out Why it once seemed appropriate to surround local government with All this Hustle Bustle and then suddenly isolate it in a Par like setting m Ifie 19th says Parker Potter who a cols Public interpretive arc co Jiju Pio Gran Annapolis the stars and stripes Page 17
