Lois Green Carr

Lois Green Carr (7 March 1922 – 28 June 2015) was an American historian of Colonial Maryland and the European settlement of the Chesapeake Bay, serving as the principal historian of St. Mary's City, Maryland for over four decades.

Biography Carr was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts on March 7, 1922, the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Constance McLaughlin Green. She attended The Putney School in Putney, Vermont and earned a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College. She earned a master's degree from Radcliffe College and a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. She became the historian for Historic St. Mary's City in 1967, founding a research program seeking to document the lives of every known 17th-century St. Mary's resident.

Carr was an adjunct professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1982 to 2005.

Carr was a co-author of Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland, which won the Alice Hanson Jones Prize from the Economic History Association in 1992 and the Maryland Historical Society Book prize in 1993. In 2000 she was named to the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame.

Carr died of dementia complications in Annapolis, Maryland on June 28, 2015.

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