From Tongs to Dredges: Changes in Chesapeake Bay Oystering Technology
Figure 1. Oyster shell recovered by archaeologists at the late 19th-century home of Black watermen in Calvert County, Maryland. Photo courtesy of the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab.
The National Oyster Festival, celebrating the American oyster, Crassotrea virginica (Figure 1), … Continue reading
Maryland History by the Object