I've included photos of the rock home of the Indian who wouldn't go west as the legend was handed down, according to the legend old Cabin John as he was called settled into a rock shelter along Cabin Branch within sight of the Duvall or Ellicott farm on Rt. 94. You can see from the attached photos the rocks formed natural walls on three sides and all Cabin John had to do to make it inhabitable was to put on a roof and a front wall and maybe a door, what you can't see is in the right wall he chiseled out a hole but no one knows for what purpose he used this hole, its meaning has left everyone guessing over the years, the hole doesn't show in these photographs unfortunately. It is said that Cabin John lived there awhile and even raised animals like pigs and later on nearby families brought him food until his death, supposedly he's buried in the old Indian and slave cemetery on an adjoining field. I was told the University of Maryland archeology class did a field trip there many years ago, there's no record of what they found that I can find. The Annapolis Rock areas was supposedly and Indian hunting ground for the Patuxent Indians from the large villages of the lower Patuxent River, it's the furthest point on the Patuxent River they could reach with their canoes at that time, it's where they would establish hunting camps and make weapons from the white quartz rock of the site, many arrow heads and other stone tools used by the Indians have been found in the fields along the river, as you know I have many.
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