The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Northam, Jack C. "Solomon's Remembered." Calvert Historian 8 (Fall 1993): 12-19.

Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Calvert County

Pearl, Susan. "Short History of Huntington (Old Bowie)." Friends of Preservation Newsletter (Spring 1987): 6-7.

Categories: County and Local History, Calvert County

Pogue, Dennis J. "Calverton, Calvert County, Maryland, 1668-1725." Calvert Historian 9 (Spring 1994): 68-79.

Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Calvert County

Pogue, Dennis J. "Calverton, Calvert County, Maryland: 1668-1725." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 371-376.

Notes: Calverton, the originally county seat of Calvert County, was one of the few towns in Colonial Southern Maryland. The discovery of an 1862 plat of this town, the earliest know plat of a Maryland town, greatly added to the information available on the town. Calverton is now believed to be of much greater importance than previously thought. It was an prominent governmental, economic, and population center.

Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Calvert County

Pogue, Dennis J. King's Reach and 17th-Century Plantation Life. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical and Cultural Publications, 1990.

Notes: A discussion of the archeological digs at King's Reach and what the findings tell of life at the time, focussing on what can be learned of the plantation's physical layout.

Categories: Agriculture, Archaeology, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Seventeenth Century, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, Southern Maryland

Preservation Society of Allegany County. In Celebration of Cumberland's Bicentennial, 1787-1987: A Pictorial Review. Cumberland, MD: The Society, 1987.

Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County

Pryor, Gwen. "Fires and Volunteers." Journal of the Alleghenies 35 (1999): 7-9.

Notes: Fires are frequently of interest to local history researchers, this brief essay describes twentieth century fires in the Frostburg area.

Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Allegany County

Randolph, B. S. "History of the Maryland Coal Region." Journal of the Alleghenies 29 (1993): 47-62.

Notes: Originally published by the Maryland Geological Survey, in 1905, this work discusses the development of Allegany County's mining industry, including the unionization of the miners.

Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Allegany 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.

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

Schwartz, Lee, Albert Feldstein, and Joan H. Baldwin. Allegany County: A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach: Donning Co., 1980.

Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County

Sherman, Frederick Barreda. "The DeBarreda and DeBarril Families, The House at Drum Point, and the Phantom Railway that Never Was." Calvert Historian 1 (October 1984): 18-28.

Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County

Shomette, Donald G. "Incident at Solomons." Bugeye Times 13 (Spring 1988): 3, 6.

Categories: County and Local History, Calvert County, Southern Maryland

"Solomons: The Cradle of Invasion." Bugeye Times 23 (Summer 1998): 1, 6.

Categories: County and Local History, Calvert County

Spencer, Duncan. "The Wisdom of Solomons." Annapolitan 3 (August 1989): 42-46, 48, 50.

Notes: Solomons Island.

Categories: County and Local History, Calvert County

Stegmaier, Harry I., Jr., David M. Dean, Gordon E. Kershaw, and John B. Wiseman. Allegany County: A History. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Co., 1976.

Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County

Stein, Charles Francis, Jr. The History of Calvert County. Prince Frederick, MD: Calvert County Bicentennial Committee, 1976.

Categories: County and Local History, Calvert County

Stout, Harriet M. "Chesapeake Beach: The Act to Incorporate the Town." Calvert Historian 8 (Spring 1993): 38-47.

Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Calvert County

The Swanpoodle Book: A Walk Through History, Lower Marlboro, Then and Now. Lower Marlboro, MD: Calvert County Public Schools, 1983.

Categories: County and Local History, Calvert County

Thomas, James W., and T.J.C. Williams. History of Allegany County, Maryland. 2 vols. [Cumberland, MD?]: L. R. Titsworth & company, 1923; reprint, Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co., 1969.

Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Allegany County

Thomas, Joseph B., Jr., and Anthony D. Lindauer. "The Town of Herrington, c. 1667-c. 1700." Anne Arundel County History Notes 29 (July 1998): 1-2, 9-12.

Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Calvert County

Thomas, Joseph B., Jr., and Anthony D. Lindauer. "The Town of Herrington, c.1667-c.1700." Calvert Historian 13 (Spring 1998): 45-61.

Notes: Same article as in <em>Anne Arundel County History Notes</em>.

Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Calvert County

Vojtech, Pat. "Destination: Solomons." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 26 (October 1996): 104-13.

Categories: County and Local History, Calvert County

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: The results of an architectural survey, it presents a useful overview of the coal region. Included is the history of settlement, the history of the industry, and an architectural history. The list of historic resources would be of use to anyone interested in the region.

Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Allegany County, Garrett County

Wilstach, Paul. Tidewater Maryland. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931.

Notes: A narrative history of those Maryland counties, all but seven of the twenty-three, touched by saltwater, arranged by theme and locale. There is a great deal of emphasis on the founding of towns and important personages, a wide variety of subjects are covered.