Digging into Maryland's Colonial past

(Baltimore Sun) - Parts of Charles County's Zekiah Swamp are every bit as inhospitable as the name suggests, choked with tick-infested woods and boot-sucking wetlands. But as archaeologists are discovering to their delight, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries Zekiah was a growth center for the young Maryland colony. The site of a 1674 courthouse was found last summer. Continued

Photo: Gambrel Roof House, Port Tobacco, Charles County, MD, 1936 (Library of Congress).