Archaeologists have located the site of a mansion on the Chesapeake bay which is said to be larger than the Governor's palace in Williamsburg VA.
The Chew family moved to the area in the mid 1600's after first settling in Jamestown VA.
The predecessor of the McMansion
DEALE - Anne Arundel County archaeologists knew they were looking for one of 18th-century Maryland's rich and famous.
Samuel Chew was a well-connected Quaker planter and merchant, and his home on a knoll above the Chesapeake Bay was an early landmark, used by ship
captains to guide them into the tobacco port of Herrington, on Herring Bay.
This is still an ongoing dig and they are requesting volunteers to help with this project, so if you are close by and interested, give them a ring, it
sounds like some interesting items are awaiting discovery.