Like Jamestown, the St. Mary's settlement was abandoned and the state capital moved to Annapolis in the 1690s. The site -- which is about the size of a football field -- was left alone and today ...

Artifacts recently found at the site of a 386-year-old fort in Southern Maryland are helping tell the story of Historic St. Mary’s City, the region and the U.S. A coin establishes the fort’s 1634 date ...

Archaeologists in Maryland have discovered the lost site of St. Mary’s Fort, the state’s first settlement. Built in 1634, the 387-year-old defensive garrison was just the fourth English settlement in ...

It’s a discovery almost 400 years in the making. The site of the original St. Mary’s Fort, built in 1634 by the first wave of European settlers who founded Maryland, has been located, Historic St.

It started with two ships sailing out of an English port in 1633 and led to the founding of Maryland on March 25, 1634. St. Mary’s County Museum Division manager Karen Stone discussed the first ...

Maryland archaeologist Travis Parno was at a board game convention in Philadelphia, sitting at a table surrounded by thousands of other enthusiasts when he got a text message. He was supposed to be on ...

Can Catholics be Americans? In his new book, Our Dear-Bought Liberty, Michael D. Breidenbach offers a persuasive account of how Catholics have wrestled with this question since the earliest days of ...