The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Feldstein, Albert L., comp. Feldstein's Top Historic Postcard Views of Allegany County, Maryland. Allegany County, MD: Commercial Press Printing Co., 1997.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Fox, Jeanette L. "The Settlement of Wickliff's Creek." Chronicles of St. Mary's 31 (September 1983): 81-88.
Notes: Wickliff's Creek was an unusual community of freeholds in a colony of largely manorial landholdings. Due to the nature of freeholding, the early settlers were able to be economically successful and politically active, however, the nature of the community, which allowed the landowners to become successful with little, if any, initial backing, limited expansion, kept the community from growing and most settlers emigrated.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
"From Statehouse to Statehouse." Maryland 27 (March/April 1995): 63, 65-66.
Frostburg Bicentennial Committee. Frostburg Salutes the Bicentennial. Frostburg, MD: Citizen Office Equipment Co., 1976.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Gough, Al. "All is Quiet Along the Potomac or Did J. Frank Raley Really Give the River Away?" Chronicles of St. Mary's 44 (Summer 1996): 113-26.
Categories: County and Local History, St. Mary's County
Gude, Gilbert. Where the Potomac Begins: A History of the North Branch Valley. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks, Press, 1984.
Notes: A history of the coal communities of Kemptown, MD, and Elk Garden, WV. Nicely illustrated, including 1939 Farm Security Administration photos, by John Vachon, of the Kemptwon miners and their families.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Allegany County, Garrett County
Guyther, J. Roy. Charlotte Hall, The Village Which Grew From a School: Two Hundred Years, 1797-1997. Mechanicsville, MD: J. R. Guyther, 1997.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Education, Family History and Genealogy, Medicine, St. Mary's County
Hammett, Regina Combs. "Leonardtown, Maryland." Chronicles of St. Mary's 28 (October 1980): 233-56.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Hammett, Regina Combs. "St. Mary's County Maryland and World War I." Chronicles of St. Mary's 35 (Summer 1987): 17-48.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Hattery, Thomas H., ed. Western Maryland : A Profile. Foreword by Charles McC. Mathias Jr. Mt. Airy, MD: Lomond Books, 1980.
Notes: This work describes the Counties which make up Maryland's Sixth Congressional District. The chapters are written by individuals involved in current affairs. The focus is on politics, government, and the economic nature of the counties. There is a great deal of statistical information. Chapter VIII includes brief essays on the future of Western Maryland by notable Maryland Officials, such as Governor Hughes, the heads of various state agencies, and people of note in the counties.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Carroll County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Howard County, Washington County
Himmelheber, Peter. "A Ramble Down Ramble: The Road from St. Joseph Chapel to St. Aloysius Chapel." Chronicles of St. Mary's 47 (Spring 1999): 354-59.
Notes: A study of the land patents along a road which once ran between two religious congregations.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Religion, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Himmelheber, Peter. "St. George's Island Revisited." Chronicles of St. Mary's 46 (Winter 1998): 332-37.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Religion, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Hughes, Elizabeth. "A Profile of Chaptico in 1821: The Partition of Philip Key's Real Estate." Chronicles of St. Mary's 43 (Fall 1995): 49-62.
Notes: A history of this commercial community as interpreted by the 1821 survey and plat developed for the division of Key's estate.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Jarboe, J. Patrick. "St. Mary's City Motel." Chronicles of St. Mary's 32 (October 1984): 193.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Education, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
King, Julia A. "Rural Life in Mid-19th Century St. Mary's County: The Susquehanna Farm at Cedar Point." Chronicle of St. Mary's 38 (Spring 1990): 289-300.
Notes: A discussion of the nineteenth century rural character of St. Mary's County as seen through life at Susquehanna Farm. Two worlds inhabited the farm. The world of the land owner and his family and the world of the slaves who worked the farm.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Archaeology, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Knott, Harry C. Coroners Inquest of St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1821-1921. St. Leonard, MD: Harry C. Knott, 1993.
Kummerow, Burton K. "Our Towne We Call St. Maries." Maryland Humanities (August/September 1993): 2-5.
Categories: County and Local History, St. Mary's County
Lancaster, Harold. "The Burning of the Historic Clarysville Inn." Journal of the Alleghenies 35 (1999): 4-6.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
Levy, Ruth Bear. A Wee Bit of Scotland: Growing up in Lonaconing, Maryland at the Turn of the Century. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Long, Helen R. Index to Scharf's History of Western Maryland, Volumes I and II. Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1995.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Carroll County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Montgomery County, Washington County
Lumpkins, Maggie Henderson. "Memories of St. George Island." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Spring 1992): 104-6.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
McCoy, Frederick L. "Maryland and St. Mary's County Men in the Revolution." Chronicles of St. Mary's 30 (September 1982): 481-86.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Eighteenth Century, St. Mary's County
McWilliams, Rita. "Great Elevations." Mid-Atlantic Country 13 (January 1992): 54-58, 63.
Notes: A tourism piece, but one which offers good basic information on a number of western Maryland's geological landmarks -- Crystal Grottoes Caverns, Sideling Hill Road Cut, and The Devil's Racecourse.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Washington County
Mackie, Norman Vardney, III. "Gravestone Procurement in St. Mary's County, 1634-1820." Maryland Historical Magazine 83 (Fall 1988): 229-40.
Notes: Thirteen cemeteries were evaluated in this study which demonstrates the socio-economic data that can be compiled from the use and construction type of gravestones. The raw materials of the stones, their style, and the distribution of the stones can all be evaluated and the economic condition of the time deduced. For example, as more prosperous wheat growing farmers populated the area more money was spent on permanent markers. Also, as sandstone became available in the county more tombstone carvers were able to work in the area.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
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