Haddock (18WO161)
Site History
The Haddock site (18WO161) is a late 19th-early 20th century house ruin located south of Whaleyville in Worcester County, Maryland. This tract was purchased in 1878 by farmer John W. Haddock, and the site is named for him. The property passed through a number of owners in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Archaeological Investigations
This site was investigated in the early 1990s by Edward Heite in connection with a proposed wastewater project. The site contained the above-ground ruins of a small late 19th-century 14.5 x 14.75 ft. house. Brick piers, roofing material, and some timbers were still in place in the early 1990s when the site was recorded.
Shovel test pits dug at the site yielded 19th-century bottle glass, brick, coal, window glass, refined white earthenware, and red-bodied white slipped earthenware. A tested area located northwest of the house ruins yielded melted glass, burned artifacts, and cinders, suggesting a location of trash incineration.
References
1993 Report of Preliminary Archaeological Reconnaissance at the Proposed Site of Berlin Wastewater Spray Irrigation Project near Libertytown, Worcester County, Maryland. (Heite Consulting) MHT # WO 10.
