Talk:St. Mary's City, Maryland

message: ***** Sanit Mary is 1689 sq miles
:That's St. Marys County.
::St. Mary's City is closer to 400 acres. An acre is a square with the side almost the length of a football field. Very different than the area listed above^^.
::Cliffswallow-vaulting (talk) 23:53, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There's not much information about the archeological info or the Time Team dig that took place there in 1997(Series 4) and found evidence of some of the governor's house and some other parts of the settlement, including a location for the Fort that had been located there.
:I just added something on that. Look in the "archeology" section.2602:306:BDA0:97A0:466D:57FF:FE90:AC45 (talk) 23:11, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Just added a link to the Time Team Wikipedia article to the Archeology section list-item on "discoveries" related to the St. Johns Freehold.Cliffswallow-vaulting (talk) 00:06, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Archeology

message: How can this article not have any history or demographics? St. Mary's City is one of the most historic cities in Maryland, first of all. I am going to work on article a lot in the coming weeks.....--(Wikipedian1234 (talk) 21:05, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Most of your changes to the history section can (should) have a reliable source. Tedickey (talk) 23:28, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I just did a lot of expanding.2602:306:BDA0:97A0:466D:57FF:FE90:AC45 (talk) 02:23, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Everything  needs expansion 

message: Both articles pretty much restate the same information. Therefore, I propose that both of them should be merged.-(Wikipedian1234 (talk) 16:15, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: sounds reasonable (and since this corresponds to the most common name, should be the target, as you've indicated) Tedickey (talk) 16:43, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Alright then. I assume that we have reached an agreement (since we are the only editors who have spent a significant amount of time on this article). I will happily merge the two articles within the next few hours.-(Wikipedian1234 (talk) 17:44, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

text: This was all done long ago.2602:306:BDA0:97A0:466D:57FF:FE90:AC45 (talk) 14:56, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[St. Mary's City Historic District]] article 

message: I didn't intend to "promote" but was just trying to describe-- 
However today I did adjust the language. The opening now reads: "center for living history and tourist destination and also an archeological research area". The words "major" and "nationally recognized" have been removed. I'm sorry for any misunderstanding, I was just trying to describe not promote. 
By the way, there are no commercial enterprises in St. Marys city. The college is a public institution (nonprofit and state funded) and the historical area that is described is run by the state of Maryland. It is also not really a city, that was just what the early colonists called it. It was a colonial town, but it was abandoned and became a ghost town and now is only a college campus and a historical / archeological area, although these are certainly very notable things by Wikipedia standards, as is explained in the article.
I also do not work or live there. 2602:306:BDA0:97A0:466D:57FF:FE90:AC45 (talk) 00:51, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Descriptions have been adjusted

message: The problem is this topic is needed by two separate articles-- 
It is needed by the St. Marys City, Maryland article (since the "city" was previously a ghost town until the development of the college, so the Citys development and the development of the college are inextricable, and since the college constitutes more than half of the designated city area). 
**Keep in mind that there is no real city, that is just what the colonists called the former town. And the name of the area has just persisted since then.   
And of course this history is also needed by the St. Marys College of Maryland article. And yet it is redundant to repeat it in both articles.   
A few possible solutions are to: 
1) Link to a new section "History of St. Marys College" in the City article, from the college article (linking to a section in another article can be done in Wikipedia).  
Or 2), a separate article could be created, "The history of St. Marys College of Maryland", that both the City and college articles could then link to. 
107.218.9.122 (talk) 18:57, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm starting to lean even more towards not creating a separate page for "History of St. Marys College". I think the problem is that, the more I read, the more it seems that the history of both the City and the emerging college through much of he 1800s and 1900s are inextricable. 2602:306:BDA0:97A0:466D:57FF:FE90:AC45 (talk) 00:57, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: History of St. Marys College

message: Something should also be added about the Jesuit mission that was established, as this played a key role in the early colony and then later became a permanent fixture in Southern St. Marys County for centuries.2602:306:BDA0:97A0:466D:57FF:FE90:AC45 (talk) 01:10, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Jesuit Mission in St. Marys / St. Inigoes

message: I'm looking into this as well. But am not sure if Bromes wharf was in St. Marys city or not. It shared the same name as the plantation in St. Marys City at the time and was destroyed by Union soldiers to stop trading with the confederacy during the war. I'm still looking into this. If anyone comes along who knows anything, please post what you know, and any sources (important) here. 2602:306:BDA0:97A0:466D:57FF:FE90:AC45 (talk) 01:13, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I found a reference that puts Bromes Wharf in St. Mary's City. I'll add it when I have more time. P.S. The above post ^^ is me, before I got my WP account.    Cliffswallow-vaulting (talk) 15:27, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Burning of Bromes Wharf during the Civil War

message: The history section dominates, for good reason, however the content might be even better a separate article to conform with Wikipedia:Summary style. --PhotographerTom (talk) 03:40, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should a separate article be created?