Local History, American History

Wyoming is the ancestral home of the Marbury family who are famous today for the supreme court case Marbury v Madison in 1803 that established Judicial Review. Back then, they consisted of war heroes, tobacco businessmen, and strong women that would run the farm. We tell their story through the use of the house that they lived in and the onsite cemetery where they are buried.

We hope to tell the story of the African Americans who were enslaved here by showing how they lived and persevered in the setting of slavery and racism. As the structures they lived in are no longer present, we have created a prototype mobile ap that uses augmented reality to show the structures in the setting where they most likely stood. Their daily life is also interpreted through the recipes of the food they ate including pawpaws which were an important part of the Underground Railroad.

Until the chestnut blight 100 years ago, chestnuts were the most common hardwood tree east of the Mississippi River, and as such were an important part of the Native American cuisine. We show how Native American planting techniques have influenced our current agriculture practices, including some practical herbal remedies.