Ghost walls : the story of a 17th-century colonial homestead / Sally M. Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Sally M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saint John's Freehold (Saint Marys City, Md.)--Juvenile literature.

Saint John's Freehold (Saint Marys City, Md.).

Dwellings--Maryland--Saint Marys City--Juvenile literature.

Dwellings.

Maryland--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Juvenile literature.

Maryland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1638, John Lewger made a home in the wilderness of the New World, in a place called Maryland. He named his house St. John's, and for nearly eighty years, it was the center of an ambitious English plan to build a new kind of community on American soil. Men and women lived and worked within its walls. Babies were born. Last breaths drawn. St. John's walls witnessed the first stirrings of the great struggles that would dominate the continent for the next three centuries: The unimaginable wealth of the New World's crops and natural resources. The promise of religious tolerance under a new model of government. The injustice of slavery. The betrayal of native peoples. The struggle for equality between men and women. If St. John's walls could have talked, they would have spoken volumes of American history. And then the walls crumbled. One hundred years after it was built, St. John's House had been abandoned. The buildings slowly deteriorated, returning to the Maryland soil to be plowed under by generations of Maryland farmers. St. John's walls were silent for more than two centuries, little more than ghosts haunting the historical and archeological records. But they weren't lost. Not entirely. Award-winning author Sally M. Walker tells the story of how teams of scientists and historians managed to hear the ghostly echoes of St. John's House and, over the course of decades of painstaking work, made them speak their stories again.

Contents:

Cover

Front Flap

Copyright Info

Title Page

Prologue

House Hunting

Dwell Here, Live Plentifully And Be Rich

The House That John Built

Inside The House

Growing Gold

Keeping House

Decisions

A Merchant Moves In

The Governor's Home

New Walls

Author's Note

Timeline

Source Notes

Selected Bibliography

Further Reading

Index

About The Author/Photo Acknowledgments

Back Flap

Back Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references(pages 132-134) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4677-7269-0

1-4677-4625-8