The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Gibbons, Boyd. Wye Island: Outsiders, Insiders, and Resistance to Change. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
Categories: County and Local History, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Glascock, Judith C. "Solomons, the Early Years." Calvert Historian 8 (Spring 1993): 14-26.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Family History and Genealogy, Maritime, Calvert County
Hamilton, Bruce. "Explosion on Solomons." Maryland 28 (April 1996): 24-29.
Categories: County and Local History, Calvert County
Hanyok, Laura A. "The Chesapeake Beach Resort." Calvert Historian 7 (Fall 1992): 14-20.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, Prince George's County
Heavey, Bill. "Calvert County Ramble." Mid-Atlantic Country 16 (March 1995): 44-45, 95, 100.
Categories: County and Local History, Calvert County
The History of Dudley's Chapel, Sudlersville, Maryland, 1783-1983. Centreville, MD: Dudley's Chapel Preservation Society, 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Hutchins, Ailene. "Shades of Old Prince Frederick." Calvert Historian 2 (October 1986): 33-35.
Categories: County and Local History, Calvert County
Immler, Alice Cockey. "Memories of Kent Island." Isle of Kent (Summer 1992): 7-8.
Isaac, Erich. "Kent Island." Maryland Historical Magazine 52 (1957): 93-119, 210-232.
Notes: Kent Island was founded in 1631 by William Claiborne. This article provides a description of the community during its early history. Discussed are the manors, the religious congregations, the towns, and the trades. Included is a list of the indentured servants residing there.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Queen Anne's County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Jewell, Donald G. "All Aboard for Chesapeake Beach." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 18 (June 1988): 67-70.
Categories: County and Local History, Calvert County
Johnson, Paula. Historical Tours through Southern Maryland: Broome's Island. Solomons, MD: Calvert Marine Museum, 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Calvert County
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.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
"Kit Wesler's Manuscript on Claiborne's Trading Post." Isle of Kent (Summer 1991): 227-28.
Categories: County and Local History, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Lamkau, Paul V. "Notes on a Record of Deaths in a Parish in Calvert County, Maryland, 1900-1946." Calvert Historian 1 (October 1985): 29-31.
Categories: County and Local History, Medicine, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Lister, Dawn Sheets. "Calvert County Maryland: The Physical and Human Geography of the 'Charm of the Chesapeake'." Calvert Historian 11 (Spring 1996): 43-55.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Manchester, Andi. "Solomon's Island." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 21 (July 1991): 32-37.
Categories: County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland
Noll, Eva Owings Davies. "The First Calvert County Fair." Calvert Historian 5 (Fall 1990): 7-8.
Notes: Bug art.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County
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
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.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Harford County, Kent County, Prince George's County, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Rhodes, Harry C. Queenstown: The Social History of a Small American Town. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1985.
Categories: County and Local History, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
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