CAMBRIDGE, Md. - Students from the University of Maryland and Morgan State are getting down and dirty, with trowels in hand, they are trying to piece together the history of a neighborhood in Easton known as, "The Hill."
"At the end of the 19th and early 20th century it was lived in by a Buffalo Soldier, a man by the name of William Gardner who was in the ninth calvary fighting in the Indian Wars," said site supervisor Benjamin Skolnick.
The archaeologist have found broken plates, glass and even a tooth.
"When you have somebody like William Gardner who fought in the U.S. Army we have found a U.S. Army button and it's a pretty compelling case that it was his," said Skolnick.
Scraping buried treasures can be time consuming and it's also hot. The archaeologists are doing what they can to stay cool. They're working in shade, taking short breaks, and drinking lots and lots of water and Gatorade.
"Sometimes we resort to putting ice packs on ourselves," said Brittany Hutchinson.
Braving the heat, while bringing history alive.
