History Comes Alive at the Historical St Mary’s City - A Living Museum

This trip has been a great history lesson and today we learned more American History from 1600 to the revolutionary war.  We learned that St. Mary’s was the fourth English permanent settlement in North America- the others being Mass Bay/Plymouth, MA, Jamestown, VA and Charlestown, SC.  St Mary’s was settled by the Calvert brothers and became the capital of Maryland for a short while.  St. Mary’s was to be a place where church and state were to be separate.  But when a new king of England decided he wanted less religious tolerance in the colony and wanted church and state to be one, the state capital was moved to Annapolis.  Historic St. Mary’s is an archaeologist’s dream as the old city is still being unearthed in search of artifacts. This outdoor museum also had an Indian long house and a recreation of a boat characteristic of one that would have brought the first settlers called - “the Dove”.  It was a hot but informative day in the old city before sailing back down the St. Mary’s River to Smith Creek where we’d anchored the previous night.

This Osprey needs put a little more effort into her nest

A young indentured servant that showed us around the tobacco farm