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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Sheads, Scott. Fort McHenry: A History. Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co., 1995.

Sims, Diana J. "A Place Apart: Life on West All Saints Street." Frederick Magazine (February 1991): 28-32, 49.

A Star Spangled Year 1748-1998: Frederick County 250th Anniversary Commemorative. [Frederick, MD]: Diversions Publications, 1997.

Strain, Paula M. The Blue Hills of Maryland: History Along the Appalachian Trail on South Mountain and the Catoctins. Vienna, VA: Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, 1993.
Notes: Strain states that the Maryland portion of the Appalachian Trail has more history than any other part of the path. She presents this history as one would encounter it along the trail, heading north from Harpers Ferry to Pennsylvania. A great deal of this history relates to the Civil War. She also tells the history of the Trail itself.

Sugarloaf Regional Trails (Project). Inventory of Historical Sites in Western Montgomery and Frederick Counties, Maryland. Dickerson, MD: Sugarloaf Regional Trails, 1975.

Tracey, Grace L., and John P. Dern. Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721-1743. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987.
Notes: A history of that portion of Prince George's County that in 1748 became Frederick County as told through the stories of the original land patents and their owners. The appendix includes many handy lists including a list of 1733-1734 inhabitants, early German Settlers, and Frederick County Muster Rolls, ca. 1757.

Trostel, Michael F. "Mondawmin: Baltimore's Lost County Estate." Bulletin of the Southern Garden History Society 8 (Summer 1991): 3-4.

Whitmore, Nancy F., and Timothy L. Cannon. Frederick: A Pictorial History. Norfolk/Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co., 1981.

Williams, T. J. C., and Folger McKinsey. History of Frederick County, Maryland. 1910; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1979.

Williams, Byron L. The Old South Mountain Inn: An Informal History. Shippensburg, PA: Beidel Printing, 1990.

Willman, W. G. "Pipe Creek." Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc. Newsletter (September 1987): 3.

Bunting, Elaine, and Patricia D'Amario. Counties of Northern Maryland. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 2000.
Notes: A series designed for young readers.

Maryland's Catoctin Mountain Parks: An Interpretive Guide to Catoctin Mountain Park and Cunningham Falls State Park. Blacksburg, VA: McDonald and Woodward Publishing Co., 1995.

Selckmann, August. "The Muddy Old Monocacy." Maryland 24 (Summer 1992): 10-19.

Hahn, Faith. "Early Printing in Maryland and Frederick County." Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc. Newsletter (March 1989): 2-3.

Rothenhoefer, Francis Petrott. 'The Clustered Spires of Frederick:' The Cultural Creation of Local Community Identity, 1745-1995. Ph.D. diss., George Washington University, 1996.

Shifflet, Anne Louise. Church Music and Musical Life in Frederick, Maryland 1745-1845. M.A. thesis, American University, 1971.

Van Newkirk, Betty. "Theatres and Opera Houses in Western Maryland." Journal of the Alleghenies 27 (1991): 73-86.

Adams, Cheryl, and Art Emerson. Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives: A Guide to Resources in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Washington: Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Library of Congress, 1998.
Notes: Institutional level descriptions for nineteen Maryland libraries and archives holding significant religious collections. A tremendous level of detail is given. Subject headings are assigned to each institution. This guide is also available online at <a href="https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/">https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/</a>.

Barquist, Rose, et al. A Source Book for Early Western Maryland History and Genealogy. Shippensburg, PA: Beidel Printing House, 1986.

Davis-Long, Trudie, and Edith Olivia Eader. The Jacob Engelbrecht Marriage Ledger of Frederick County, Maryland, 1820-1890. Monrovia, MD: Paw Prints, 1994.

Eader, Edith Olivia, and Trudie Davis-Long, comps. The Jacob Engelbrecht Death Ledger of Frederick County, Maryland, 1820-1890. Monrovia, MD: Paw Prints, 1995.

Eader, Edith Olivia, and Trudie Davis-Long, comps. The Jacob Engelbrecht Property and Almshouse Ledgers of Frederick County, Maryland. Monrovia, MD: Paw Prints, 1996.

Fitzgerald, Rebecca, and Mark S. Hudson. "A History of the Historical Society of Frederick County II." The Historical Society of Frederick County Journal (Spring 2001).

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