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got a job at Historic St. Mary’s City in 2016, he was intrigued by a major unsolved mystery: Somewhere nearby, buried underground, was an important 17th-century fortification that historians had been trying to locate for almost a century. “It was like, wait, there’s a fort here that hasn’t been found yet?” Parno recalls. “That’s pretty neat.”
Parno, a man of nerdy enthusiasms, was heading not to the beach or a cabin but to a board-game convention. He was in the middle of a game about the pre-Aztec civilization Teotihuacán when he got a text from Horsley. “Hey Travis. I hope you’re enjoying Philly! So . . . we got it!”Horsley went on to say he’d found what he was confident was solid evidence of the fort. “This is incredible,” Parno responded. After some discussion of the specifics, Horsley told him to get back to his vacation.
In the 1930s, an architect named Henry Chandlee Forman kicked off the modern search for the fort. While exploring the area, he uncovered some significant brick buildings from later in the 17th century, and his 1938 book,, became a foundational text on Maryland’s early days. But his efforts to unearth the fort were fruitless. By 1966, when Historic St. Mary’s City was founded, the focus turned to launching the museum; the lost fort was less of a priority.
Covid’s arrival scuttled those plans, but after a one-year delay, Historic St. Mary’s City and then-governor Larry Hogan held an online event to share the discovery. It made international news. “Archaeologists and historians had been waiting for this moment for many, many years,” says James Horn, president and chief officer of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation, who studies the earliest British colonies in America. “It’s just extraordinarily difficult to find a footprint that is so ephemeral.
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