Wise Farm and Fox Gap Sites

The Wise Farmstead and Fox Gap Portion of the South Mountain Battlefield. The Wise Farmstead (ca 1858 to 1879) was the home and farm of Daniel Wise and his family, located in a beautiful ridge top setting on the crest of the Blue Ridge in central Maryland .

May 2003, ASM Field School at the Winslow Site

A late Woodland native American village site.  Who were these people, and why did they come here, why did they disappear, and where did they go?  Many questions and many eager volunteers seeking the answers.

Learn more by visiting a study of the Rosenstock site, another late woodland village situated along the Monocacy River, which is the 'First Frederick City'

Monocacy National Battlefield, Best Farm Site and Middle Ford Ferry Tavern on the Monocacy River

A Civil War battlefield and encampment site.  A French Carribbean family with perhaps the most slaves in the County.  A barn built unlike any other North of Louisiana .  Also native American sites.

The first reference to a ferry at Middle Ford appears in March 1748, when Henry Ballenger entered into a contract with the county court:

"...to keep a ferry over the Middle Ford on Monocacy and to provide a boat or Scow and an able hand or hands to work it until the Last day of next November Court for which the said Henry Ballinger is to be allowed in the next County Levy at the rate of Ten pounds from the time he [possesses?] the ferry and has the boat or Schow ready to Convey persons over and ordered that the said Henry do not demand or take more than four pence for carrying a Man and horse over and three shillings for Waggons..."

Antietam Battlefield - Civil War

Metal detecting for artifacts on the battlefield, and the replanting of the 1860's orchard with the heirloom apple varieties that were cut to the ground by bullets during the battle.

Beatty Cramer House Initial Exploration

One of Frederick 's earliest remaining historic structures and unique in Maryland for its construction styles.  A rare example of Dutch architectural features brought down from New York state by a widowed woman and her large family.  Test pits were completed to aid in placing new parking as the site is restored and opened more frequently to the public.

The Search for the Lost Monocacy Log Church

Long before the clustered spires, a fabled, simple log structure served as the focal point of religious life in Frederick County A few clues from the reports of missionary Palantine Ministers hint at its location without any certainty.  From the old German diaries we glean a few clues and believe we have a sense of where the church may have been located, and its not where everyone seems to believe from local markers.  But ground penetrating radar yields no further proof.

Diagnostic artifacts in Maryland

A Comparative Archaeological Study of Colonial Chesapeake Culture