Saturday in the City

18751 Hogaboom Lane
St. Mary's City , 20686

01 Jul 2023

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10:00am - 4:00pm

(301) 994-4370

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Demonstration, Events

Saturday in the City

18751 Hogaboom Lane
St. Mary's City , 20686

01 Jul 2023

10:00am - 4:00pm

Overview

**Schedule and exhibit availability subject to change**

All activities are included with admission: $10 adult; $9 senior; $6 youth; free to ages 5 and younger; to museum members; and to those who qualify for the Blue Star Museums program

11:30 a.m. Visit the Woodland Indian Hamlet to learn how the Yacocomico people created canoes without metal tools, and how fire could be a most valuable tool. (approximately 20 minutes)

12:30 p.m. How did the colonists survive without modern medical knowledge and medicines? Come to Smith’s Ordinary and its nearby garden, to discover what the Maryland colonists did, and how it affected the way they lived. (approximately 30 minutes)

2:30 p.m. How do you become a prosperous colonist in 17^th-century Maryland? Meet a member of the Plantation household and find out how to become rich or, at least, die trying. (approximately 30 minutes)

Off Exhibit All Day The Maryland Dove is closed today, after returning home from a tour of Chesapeake Bay, featuring visits to Baltimore and Havre de Grace. She will reopen for exhibit at Historic St. Mary’s City beginning July 5 at 11:00 a.m.

While strolling the exhibit paths, don’t forget to explore the 18th-century Mackall Barn; Van Sweringen’s Inn; the reconstructed State House of 1676; and the reconstructed Brick Chapel of 1667, which features the crypt that houses the re-interred lead coffins of Philip Calvert and his family. Before you end your visit, drive down Rosecroft Road to the current site of the 19th-century Brome Howard house (now the Inn at Brome Howard), to see the Struggle for Freedom exhibit. The exhibit is located inside a building that was originally constructed to house the men and women who were enslaved laborers at the Brome plantation. Struggle for Freedom explores what the lives of African Americans were like from before the Civil War to the early 20th century.