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How did children live in colonial America? Follow the stories of three real families in eighteenth-century London Town, an important trading port in Maryland. Explore their lives to learn what it was like to grow up in the Chesapeake region before the American Revolution.

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This project was developed through a Teaching American History Grant partnership between Anne Arundel County Public Schools, the Center for History Education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and Historic London Town and Gardens.