Md. beginning weekdays Aug.14 through Aug.31.
Visitors are welcome.
Since 1990 the team has excavated parts of the historical courthouse site on Franklin Street and found the site was once a predominantly African-American community that existed since at least 1870. Previous archaeology has already given a wide variety of evidence about the African- American community in Annapolis. The work is part of the Archaeology in Annapolis project, a joint partnership between researchers at University of Maryland and Historical Annapolis Foundation, who are conducting excavations for the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture , along with the Maryland Office of Museum Services and the Maryland Historical Trust . The excavation for this project includes the lots of four homes built around the mid 1800s. Excavations are intended to locate and examine any surviving remnants of previous occupants.