Historic London Town and Gardens

Early Maryland History

This program is best for third, fourth, and fifth graders. Cost per student: $8.00 per student for 3.5-hour programs, $6.00 per student for 2-hour programs. (Title I schools receive a 25% discount.)

Students experience the lives of average colonial Marylanders through hands-on activities and discussion in original and reconstructed colonial buildings and exhibits.

The program explores three topics:

People: Students will experience the lives of actual colonists, from the upper crust to merchants to slaves and indentured servants by dressing up as those people and exploring how they would have interacted in a social center of colonial life: the tavern of the William Brown House.

Work: The work that men, women, and children would have done to support themselves, their families, and their community are explored through hands-on activities such as hearth cooking in the Lord Mayor’s Tenement and woodworking in the Carpenter Shop.

Trade: London Town’s role as a British colonial seaport and its connection to a global trade network are discovered in the Seaport station, where students take on the roles of sailors, and in the exhibit, where they examine objects similar to those found by archaeologists at the Rumney-West Tavern site.

Contact:

Kyle Dalton, Public Programs Administrator, [email protected] or request a school tour online