Historic St. Mary’s City seeks to hire a Shipmaster for the Maryland Dove.
Historic St. Mary’s City (HSMC) is Maryland’s founding site, its first city and capital (1634-1695), and where Native Americans, Europeans and Africans came face to face in the 1600s. It is a museum of living history and archaeology, where decades of research are the foundation of exhibits assembled across the landscape. The reconstructed State House, the St. John’s Site Museum, the
reconstructed first Jesuit Chapel in the English Colonies on its original 1660 site, the newly constructed Dove, and recreated structures in the historic town center, all staffed by costumed or uniformed interpreters, help visitors understand the stories of Maryland’s founding.
HSMC is a leading tourism attraction in Southern Maryland and has an active school tour program. The museum collections are a resource for professional archaeologists, scholars, and college students. The HSMC colonial archaeology field school, the longest running field school in the nation, attracts students from all over the United States as well as from other countries.
HSMC also collaborates with St. Mary’s College of Maryland. It is an independent instrumentality of the State of Maryland, within the Office of the Governor.