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Historic St. Mary's City
An Outdoor Museum of History and Archaeology- Closed for Winter. Reopens March 18, 2025.
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Who We Are
discoverHistoric St. Mary's City is one of the premier historic sites in America, a museum of living history and archaeology telling diverse stories on the site of Maryland’s first capital in beautiful, tidewater Southern Maryland.
Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation
St. John’s Site Museum
Maryland Dove outreach
Museum of Archaeology
Visitor Exhibits
Woodland Indian Hamlet
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HSMC Staff Demonstration
Witchott or Longhouse
Dig Deeper
From the first 17th-century investigations at St. Mary’s City, archaeologists began recovering evidence for glass windows. These were expensive items and many immigrants could not...
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The most impressive funerary monument of the Calvert family is that of Anne Mynne Calvert. She was George Calvert’s first wife and the mother all...
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Coming to early Maryland was a major risk for immigrants. One acquires immunities to the diseases in the region where you grow up. But such...
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Maryland Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford visits Maryland Dove and offers a welcome to a school group.
Hearth Cooking
Little Pirates
State House Weddings. Credit: Jill Christine Design & Photography
Field School Program
Archaeology at HSMC
Militia Muster
Capture the joy of your day down at the waterfront