The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Pittman, LaVern. "Walnut Level: A Model Farm in Allegany County." Journal of the Alleghenies 30 (1994): 3-12.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Allegany County
Dean, David M. "Meshach Browning: Bear Hunter of Allegany County, 1781-1859." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Spring 1996): 73-83.
Notes: Meshach Browning was the author of an autobiography, <em>Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter</em>, that might more properly be seen as a tall tale wrapped around the framework of an actual life. Browning (1751-1859) inhabited the frontier in the westernmost part of Maryland that later became Garrett County. He claimed to have killed 400 bears in his career. For those attracted to the stories of Davy Crockett or Paul Bunyon, Meshach Browning's life offers entertaining reading.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
The McKaig Journal, a Confederate Family of Cumberland. Cumberland, MD: Allegheny County Historical Society, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County
Urbas, Anton. "Tony Urbas Has a Career Change." Journal of the Alleghenies 35 (1999): 37-48.
Tate, Thad W. "The Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake and Its Modern Historians." In The Chesapeake in the Seventeeth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society. Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman eds., 3-50. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Categories: General, African American, Seventeenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Cordts, Jeanne M. "Iron Fences in Frostburg." Journal of the Alleghenies 31 (1995): 89-98.
Cumberland Historic Buildings Cumberland, MD: Mayor and City Council, 1987.
Newell, Dianne. The Failure to Preserve the Queen City Hotel, Cumberland, Maryland. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1975.
Silverman, Sharon H. "The Castle B&B." Maryland 27 (July/August 1995): 58-62.
Taylor, Lonn. The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem. New York: Smithsonian/Harry N. Abrams, 2000.
Ware, Donna M. Green Glades & Sooty Gob Piles: The Maryland Coal Region's Industrial and Architectural Past. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical and Cultural Publications, 1991.
Notes: Some 6,000 bridges, iron furnaces, log schoolhouses, company offices and stores, miner's houses, mill buildings, banks, churches, mansions, inns, resort cottages, and other structures associated with the extractive, manufacturing, and transportation industries of Garrett and western Allegany counties are surveyed and described here, with photographs, and contributions by Orlando Ridout, V, Geoffey B. Henry, and Mark R. Edwards. The largest project to date conducted by the Maryland Historical Trust is essential to an understanding of the unique remains of Maryland's historic resort area and coal and iron district.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Allegany County, Garrett County
Allen, Irvin G. Historic Oldtown Maryland. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Bross-Fregonara, Nanci. "Allegany County." Mid-Atlantic Country 12 (January 1991): WM11, WM15-16.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
Browne, Gary L. "Urban Centers of the Past." Maryland Heritage News 2 (Fall 1984): 6-7.
Notes: A variety of factors effect the rise and fall of urban centers -- transportation, market, environmental, and political changes, as well as the rise of other centers. Browne presents a brief discussion of the fate of approximately ten urban centers.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Queen Anne's County, Talbot County, Washington County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Buckley, Geoffrey L. "Converting Minerals into Merchandise: Landownership and Environmental Alteration in the George's Creek Valley of Western Maryland, 1789-1842." Historical Geography 26 (1998): 151-75.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County
Crawford, Joan B. "A Heritage Preserved: The Creative Traditions of Western Maryland." Maryland 25 (Summer 1993): 38-44.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County, Washington County
Fair, Patricia Stover, comp. Everyname Index to History of Allegany County Maryland. Oklahoma City, OK: Fair Printing Co., 1991.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L. Downtown Cumberland. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1988.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert. Feldstein's All New Historic Postcard Album of Allegany County, Maryland. Volume II. Cumberland, MD: Commercial Press Printing Co., 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L. Feldstein's Historic Allegany County: A Video Postcard Extravaganza. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1990.
Notes: Videotape.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L. Feldstein's Historic Banner Front Pages of the Cumberland Daily News, Cumberland News, and Cumberland Evening Times Vol. I: The Twentieth Century. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L. Feldstein's Historic Newspapers of Allegany County Vol. II-The 19th and 20th C. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert. Feldstein's Historic Postcard Album of Allegany County, Maryland. Cumberland: MD: Commercial Press Printing Co., 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L. Feldstein's Illustrated Tour Guide to Historic Sites in Allegany County. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1990.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L., ed. Feldstein's Revised I Remember Downtown Cumberland, 1950-1980. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1994.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Allegany County