Elizabeth Comer: Using DNA to Connect Living People to Enslaved Ironworkers at Catoctin Furnace
Elizabeth Comer, archaeologist and president of the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society, introduces us to a facinating project to connect the past with the present. In an effort to learn more about the legacies of twenty-seven African Americans who labored at Catoctin Furnace during the late 18th to early 19th centuries and who were buried in