40 Fleet Street (18AP110)
Site History
The 40 Fleet Street site (18AP110) is a late 19th to early 20th-century urban tenement house lot on Fleet Street in Annapolis, Maryland. The house itself is a two-story c. 1880s frame house, with an approximately 16' × 20' back lot. The back lot is currently brick paved and separated from neighboring lots by a wooden fence. From 1910-1930 the site was occupied by the African American working class Price family, but the property had been occupied by successive generations of African American Annapolitans.
The archaeological component of the site is a mid to late 18th-century artifact scatter possibly related to a period when the property was rented by Elizabeth Foulk in the 1770s (see Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties for a more thorough site history).
Archaeological Investigations
Two 5 × 5' test units were excavated at the property, but no records or report have been located for this project. The stratigraphy of 40 Fleet Street is characterized by 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century yard scatter. The uppermost levels correspond to mid-late 20th century landscaping efforts, including multiple brick patios, and landscape/planting features. Underlying the patios surfaces are a series of yard scatter levels, consisting of domestic refuse and coal ash. Underlying these levels are late 18th-century sheet midden deposits. In addition to yard scatter, a barrel privy dating to the late 19th century was found. Diagnostic artifacts within the privy indicate a fill date of turn of the 20th century.
