HISTORIC LONDON TOWN AND GARDENS
Former Town — Edgewater, Maryland
Status: Historic site · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/historic-london-town-and-gardens-edgewater-maryland/

Archaeology investigates a lost colonial settlement along the South River.

Historic London Town and Gardens is a former town in Edgewater, Maryland. Archaeology investigates a lost colonial settlement along the South River. It sits in the archive under ghost towns. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.

London Town is the port that archaeology had to find — the 1683 Act for Advancement of Trade town on the South River, Anne Arundel's county seat before Annapolis took it, the tobacco port where the trans-Atlantic ships loaded before sailing to England. Two hundred people, the ferries and the taverns and the staymakers, all fading as the travel routes shifted until the town was gone by 1800.
The almshouse came next — the county bought the land in the 1820s and used it for the poor until 1965, William Brown's 1760 brick tavern surviving as the women's dormitory. The archaeologists started digging in the sixties and found the whole town under the ground — the lost town of Maryland mapped out in postholes and ceramics, the port that legislated itself into existence and dug itself back out.
The file keeps London Town: the 1683 tobacco port, the almshouse century, the William Brown house, and the archaeology that found it.
London Town is the archive's lost-town file — the colonial port under the ground and the almshouse that covered it.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
London Town is the archive's lost-town file — the 1683 tobacco port and the archaeology that recovered it.
A town under the ground keeps its postholes — the file's suggestion being that London Town's hold is the rediscovery: the port that faded to an almshouse field and the digs that found the whole colonial town still down there.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Archaeology investigates a lost colonial settlement along the South River. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The press recorded it; the detail stands as reported history. The detail is preserved in 'Historic London Town'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Historic London Town — Visit Annapolis
  https://www.visitannapolis.org/plan/landmarks-and-neighborhoods/historic-london-town/

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