The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-06-21
Home Of the PatuXents.

The following article which We find in
the Baltimore American of Thursday will
be read with interest:
Colonel VIM. Fl. Love, who is member
of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, be
lieves that he has discovered the location
of the main settlement of the Patuxent
Indians. On Decoration Dav Colonel
Love was invited to visit "A strip of land
lying between the northern and western
branches of the PatuXent River in Prince
Georges county, lying due east of Bowie,
and while there he found number of L.
dian relics in the shape of arrows and spear
heads, and also saw "A collection Of several
thousand such relics that had beed picked
up on the ground during the past six or
seven years. Colonel Love saws he left
the railroad at Collington, on the Popes
Creek line of the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad and travelled in eaSterlv direc-
ton. He came across the Jesuit settle
ment at White Marsh which is one of the
Oldest in the country, and also had u drink
out of the holy spring, to which pilgrim
ages have been made ever since the early
settlements The water was delightfully."-
cold and pure. He then crossed the Pa
tuNent Valley. which is a swamp. and
probably ever remain such. After the val
ley was crossed the road began to ascend
until 1t reached a ravine denselv covered
with l1nrtl b,t all
ed Ivy by the natives. AT the apex the
colonel found 4 sandy plateau covering an
area of over three hundred acres, and on
this, he says. he believes was the undonbt
ed location Of the main settlement of tn,
PatuXent Indians Piles of debris. repre-
stntln" the stone are, covered the entire
surface as far as the eye could see and al
| kinds of stone clippings and Frequently
implements, could be picked up from the
| ground. The party ho owns the Ian,
told Colonel Love that most Of these relic.
had been gathered six or eight years AGO
| and that he personally gathered seven
| thousand arrows and spear heads and on,
| hundred axes Back from the edge of thu
| bluff that oyerlooks the river Colonel Lov,
| discovered an Indian mound, still abuu
| six feet above the ground. The coione
| was told that Il number of wears AFRO tn,
mound was fully thirty feet high, hnt con
| slant Flowing had lowered it. Aftera Ii"
| day of work Colonel Love carried AVA
! with him thirty valuable specimens an,
must have been brought to that place hr
| the Indians along their trails from tn
mountains. The plateau Is today cover
ed with a dense growth of Spanish Gal
and pine, which causes much Ia be lost [,
the observer. Colonel Love contends tina
| the place was not only the main settlement
| Of the PatuXe1t Indians bat it was ais,
the place where they manufactured thei
implements of industry and warfare
Colonel Love says that one of the pleas
ant features of the visit was the pictures
! que ride alun" the road from CoIlinrton [,
the Indian plateau. ON the way he pas.r,
'Belalr, the O~lc estate, and the home O
! NV" governors. The property is now il
| the possession of Il Californian and shows
| neglect. \ most imposin@ sight. however
IS the gigantic rows Of tulip popInr~ thai
| line the entrance to the Old family mansion