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Tidewater Time Capsule History Beneath the Patuxent

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Years ago, few people understood the value of the submerged cultural resources beneath the waters of the Chesapeake region. Recently, the seek for the region’s underwater heritage has been validated and initiated an intensified try to study and preserve the priceless resources in the waters of the bay and its tributaries. Tidewater Time Capsule presents an interesting account of one underwater archaeological endeavor through which Donald G. Shomette was once intimately involved: the underwater survey of the Patuxent River, and, in particular, the seek for Commodore Joshua Barney’s Chesapeake Flotilla, which was once lost beneath the river’s waters following a battle with the British right through the War of 1812. The creator skillfully sets the historical scene, and then proceeds to a first-person, on-the-web site narrative of the investigative events as they happened. The Patuxent Project was once the first underwater archaeological survey of a whole river system. On this multiphase investigation, archaeologists sought such diverse resources as inundated aboriginal and historic sites, harbor facilities, military establishments, battle sites, shipwrecks, and, in particular, the final resting place of Joshua Barney’s famed Chesapeake Flotilla from the War of 1812.

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