The Cresap's Fort or Oldtown I site (18AG9) is located near Lock 70 in C&O Canal National Historic Park. The site today is maintained as a hayfield, but
was plowed historically. Past archeological work, coupled with archival background research, strongly suggests that this site contains the buried remains of the mid to late 18th-century fortified
home of Colonel Thomas Cresap.
Site 18AG9 was first identified in the 1960s as the possible location of Colonel Cresap's mid 18th-century home and fort of Skipton. In 1961, Edward
Larrabee reported finding colonial artifacts on what is known as "Moores Farm Prperty" during surface collection of a plowed field between the C&O Canal and the Potomac River near Oldtown,
MD. He speculated that the materials might be related to either Cresap's Fort or Charles Anderson's cabin.
The principle goal of this field session was to expose and characterize remote sensing anomalies on the site and to determine if their spatial layout and
apparent functions appear to be consistent with 18th-century descriptions of Thomas Cresap's home at Oldtown.
