The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Manchester, Andi. "A Cruising Family Visits Rock Hall." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 20 (October 1990): 34-38.
Categories: County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Manchester, Andi. "St. Mary's City." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 19 (August 1989): 34-38.
Categories: County and Local History, St. Mary's County, Southern Maryland
Meyer, Eric. "Pax River, Lexington Park: The Right Place for the Right Stuff." Maryland 22 (Autumn 1989): 44-49.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Military, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Miller, George L. "Ode to a Lunch Bowl: The Atlantic Lunch as an Interface between St. Mary's County, Maryland, and Washington, D.C." Chronicles of St. Mary's 36 (Summer 1988): 113-17.
Categories: County and Local History, St. Mary's County
Miller, Henry M. "St. Mary's City: A Baroque City in the Wilderness." Maryland Humanities (November 1998): 2-5.
Categories: County and Local History, St. Mary's County
Moore, Dick. "Way Back When [Betterton]." Maryland 20 (Spring 1988): 53.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Murphy, Jeanne Payne. "The Letters of Lafayette Buckler from 1859 to 1884." Chronicles of St. Mary's 30 (March 1982): 421-32; (April 1982): 433-44; (May 1982): 445-54.
Notes: Transcriptions of a series of 41 letters written by Lafayette to Victoria McGinley Buckler, his wife, as they traveled between their home in St. Mary's and Baltimore. Two letters are also included written by Victoria. The letters deal with the details of daily life and the relationship of this couple. A sizeable introduction proceeds the letters and places the letters in the context of place, time, and family.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, St. Mary's County
"The Mystery of Historic St. Mary's City." Southern Living 25 (August 1990): 18-19.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Seventeenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Papenfuse, Edward C. Doing Good to Posterity-The Move of the Capital of Maryland from St. Mary's City to Ann Arundell Towne, now called Annapolis. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical Trust Press, 1995.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Anne Arundel County, St. Mary's County
Pogue, Robert E. T. "The Milestown Oak." Chronicles of St. Mary's 29 (August 1981): 345-46.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Ranzetta, Kirk E. "From Rat Proof Corn Cribs to St. Peter's Chapel: The Builders and Buildings in Leonardtown." Chronicles of St. Mary's 46 (Fall 1998): 301-12.
Notes: A history of Leonardtown as seen through the works of a group of nineteenth century architects and builders.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Reps, John. Tidewater Towns: City Planning in Colonial Virginia and Maryland. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1972.
Notes: Early towns did not generally spring out of nowhere. Town planning was common and an important part of Chesapeake Maryland's colonial history. The government played an active role in the founding and formation of towns. Annapolis and the District of Columbia were unique in that their plans did not resemble those common amongst other English colonies.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Harford County, Kent County, Prince George's County, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Richardson, Hester Dorsey. "Colors of the Counties." Calvert Historian 8 (Fall 1993): 50-52.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Seventeenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Kent County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Robinson, Ophelia McKay. "Richard McKay of Maryland and Kentucky." Chronicles of St. Mary's 30 (June 1982): 457-63.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, St. Mary's County
"St. Mary's: From State's First Years to Jet Age." Annapolitan 4 (September 1990): 21-23.
Categories: County and Local History, St. Mary's County
St. Mary's City Commission. St. Mary's City: A Plan for the Outdoor Museum. St. Mary's City: April 1974.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, St. Mary's County
"St. Mary's County Adopts an Official Song." Chronicles of St. Mary's 35 (Winter 1987): 72-73.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, St. Mary's County
Stone, Gary Wheeler. "St. Maries Citty: Corporate Artifact." Maryland Archeology 26 (March and September 1990): 4-18.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, St. Mary's County
Stone, Mary C. "St. Mary's County Foodways Prior to 1941, and Particularly During the Depression Years of the 1930's." Chronicles of St. Marys 24 (August 1976): 173-83.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Women, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Sutton, Stanley B. Beyond the Roadgate: Kent County, 1900-1980. Privately published, 1983.
Notes: This history of twentieth century Kent was compiled by a former Agricultural Extension Officer. Naturally enough, a great deal of emphasis is placed on the agricultural and rural heritage of the County. Pivotal 1980 leaders of the county supply commentary on their areas of expertise.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Medicine, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Sword, Gerald J. "Acquisition of the Point Lookout Lighthouse Site by the United States Government from Jenifer Taylor." Chronicles of St. Mary's 26 (January 1978): 340-46.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Howard County, St. Mary's County
Sword, Gerald J. "Point Lookout Lighthouse." Chronicles of St. Mary's 33 (May 1985): 259-262.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Sword, Gerald J. "Who Goes There? (Ghostly Manifestations at Point Lookout)." Chronicles of St. Mary's 30 (July 1982): 465-71.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, St. Mary's County
Sword, Gerald J. "House Cove Point Lookout State Park." Chronicles of St. Mary's 26 (July 1978): 391-402.
Notes: This article compiled all available information on House Cove. It, therefore, serves as a good example of the wide variety of resources that can be found and utilized when researching a Maryland property.
Categories: Archaeology, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Szabo, Steve. The Eastern Shore. Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1976.
Notes: Photographic essay.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore