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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Hutchinson, William E. "The Johnson Family Enterprises Near Sugarloaf Mountain." Historical Society of Frederick County Journal 4 (Spring 1995): 1-15.

Johnson, Robert J. Gravesend - Serene But Still Profound. Rock Hall, MD: American Revolution Bicentennial Committee of Rock Hall, 1975.
Notes: Chester River to Rock Hall on the Eastern Shore.

Jopp, Harold D. Rediscovery of the Eastern Shore: Delmarva Travelogues of the 1870s. Wye Mills, MD: Chesapeake College Press, 1986.
Notes: Reprints of articles by four different authors which appeared in the leading nineteenth century publications of <em>Harper's New Monthly Magazine</em>, <em>Lippincott's Magazine</em>, and <em>Scribner's Monthly</em>. The authors included noted illustrator Howard Pyle and Maryland writer George Townsend.

Kent County Guide. Chestertown, MD: Kent County Bicentennial Committee, 1976.

Larsen, Hal. "35 Years Ago!" Maryland Cracker Barrel 18 (April 1989): 18-19.
Notes: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas on C&amp;O Canal hike.

Levin, Alexandra Lee. "Letters to and from Frederick, Maryland (1833-1848)." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Summer 1985): 167-174.

Livingston, Jay. "Reinventing Rock Hall." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 28 (May 1998): 50-57, 92-93.

Long, Helen R. Index for the Frederick County Section of Scharf's History of Western Maryland, Volume 1. Manhattan, KS: ADR, 1986.

Love, Richard. "Brunswick's 'Blessed Curse': Surviving an Industrial Legacy." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Summer 1993): 133-49.
Notes: Brunswick was a community tied together and given its identify by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. When the railroad left in the late twentieth century the town lost its identify and underwent a drastic change. It experienced a period of crisis where the whole concept of community was called into question.

McKerrow, Steve. "Destination: Chestertown." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 26 (January 1997): 44-51, 66-68.

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.

Manchester, Andi. "Colonial Chestertown." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 21 (September 1991): 28-32.

Manchester, Andi. "A Cruising Family Visits Rock Hall." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 20 (October 1990): 34-38.

Milne, Kristin. "Steps in Time: Walking Frederick's Historic Court Square." Frederick Magazine (April 1990): 22-9.

Moore, Dick. "Way Back When [Betterton]." Maryland 20 (Spring 1988): 53.

Nakhleh, Emilie A., and Mary B. Nakhleh, eds. Emmitsburg. History and Society. Emmitsburg, MD: The Emmitsburg Chronicle, 1976.

Newman, Parsons. Three Historical Sketches of Frederick County from its Foundations to the End of the Revolutionary Period. Frederick: Historical Society of Frederick County, 1974.

Quynn, W. R. Bicentennial History of Frederick City & County Maryland. Frederick: Bicentennial Committee of Frederick Chamber of Commerce, 1975.

Randall, Frances E. Mirror on Frederick Through 250 Years. [Frederick, MD]: Great Southern Printing & Manufacturing Co., 2000.

Reaves, Ronald E. "New Market: A Maryland town that time did not forget." Cracker Barrel 18 (August 1988): 26-28.

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.

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