by Kennedy Thomason | Jun 11, 2024 | Colonial Era, Historic Landscape, Historic Sites Mapping, Kennedy Thomason Project, Revolutionary War, The River is the Center by Kennedy Thomason
Over the past several years, Washington College’s archeology students have spent their summers in Denton, studying the site of the long-forgotten Barwick’s Ordinary, which operated between 1763 to 1783. In late-18th-century terms, an “Ordinary” refers to a...
by Kennedy Thomason | Jun 4, 2024 | Colonial Era, Farms, Kennedy Thomason Project, Revolutionary War, The River is the Center by Kennedy Thomason
The early to mid-1600s saw the reign of tobacco as the dominant cash crop in the American colonies. The King of England strongly opposed the growing of tobacco in the mother country, and the climate was not exactly suitable for its growth anyway, leaving the...
