ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG TURNS UP SLAVE QUARTERS
AT MARYLAND PLANTATION OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY'S
GRANDMOTHER
MILLERSVILLE, Md. - While looking for
signs of French Commander Jean-Baptiste
Rochambeau’s 1781 encampment,
archaeologists instead uncovered perhaps
something even more valuable — decadesold slave quarters.
Anne Arundel County and Maryland
State Highway Administration (SHA)
archaeologists have been digging in sites
all along General's Highway in Crownsville,
Maryland since last spring as part of a
federally funded grant to explore the
history of transport ][ۈ[