Elizabeth
Anderson
Comer

Name

Elizabeth Anderson Comer

Contribution

Catoctin Furnace Enslaved Mother

Elizabeth Anderson Comer is an archaeologist who serves as the president of the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society and president of EAC/Archaeology, Inc. Now completing her Ph.D., Comer has managed the restoration of the log collier’s house, the stone forgeman’s house, the Museum of the Ironworker, the construction of an interpretative trail for the African American cemetery, and bioarchaeological research about the Catoctin Furnace population. She has procured and managed 62 grants totaling more than $1.5 million. 

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