The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Glass, Jesse, comp. Ghosts and Legends of Carroll County, MD. Westminster, MD: Carroll County Public Library, 1982.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Carroll County
Graybeal, Jay. Carroll County and the Great War for Civilization, 1917-1919. Westminster, MD: Historical Society of Carroll County, 1993.
Notes: A companion to a Historical Society of Carroll County exhibit, this work deals with both the men who went to war and the efforts of the community they left behind. It includes a contemporary report, excerpts from letters written home, and a memoir of a Carroll Countian who served in Europe. Included is a list of the men who served.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Military, Twentieth Century, Carroll 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
Historical Society of Carroll County. "A Celebration of the Fabulous Forties." Carroll County History Journal 42 (Spring 1991): 1-5.
Categories: County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Carroll County
Historical Society of Carroll County. The First 150 Years: A Pictorial History of Carroll County, Maryland, 1837-1987. Westminster, MD: Historical Society of Carroll County, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Carroll County
An Illustrated Atlas of Carroll County, Maryland 1877. Enlarged edition. Westminster, MD: Historical Society of Carroll County, 1993.
Index of Carroll County Names. Manchester, MD: Noodle-Doosey Press, 1984.
Notes: An index to two early maps of the county.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Carroll County
Kelbaugh, Jack. "Shipley's Choice: A Community Name with Historical Significance; Part I: The Shipley Clan." Anne Arundel County History Notes 20 (January 1989): 3-5.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Carroll County, Howard County
Long, Helen R. Index for the Carroll County Section of Scharf's History of Western Maryland, Volume 2. Topeka, KS: Copy Center, 1989.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Carroll 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
Marks, Lillian Bayly. Reister's Desire: The Origin of Reisterstown, Maryland, Founded 1758, With a Genealogical History of the Reister Family and Sketches of Allied Families. N.p.: Published by the author, 1975.
Notes: A history of the early development of today's Reisterstown as documented primarily through land records. The largest portion of this work is dedicated to the genealogy of the Reister, and allied, families.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Carroll County
Parsons, Richard, comp. "Tours for Families or Groups in Metropolitan Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 72 (Spring 1977): 1-58.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Carroll County, Harford County, Howard County
Stenley, Virginia D., comp. Keysville Historical Reflections. Keysville, MD: Keysville Bicentennial Committee, 1976.
Categories: County and Local History, Carroll County
Warner, Nancy M., Ralph B. Levering, and Margaret Taylor Woltz. Carroll County, Maryland: A History 1837-1976. Westminster, MD: Carroll County Bicentennial Committee, 1976.
Notes: The authors of this county history concentrated on the daily life, not on the political development of the towns or biographical sketches of prominent people. They dealt with the schools, the organizations, the newspapers, how people obtain health care, and the influences of the national wars and the Great Depression on the County. A great deal of emphasis is placed on the twentieth century.
Bunting, Elaine, and Patricia D'Amario. Counties of Northern Maryland. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 2000.
Notes: A series designed for young readers.
Categories: Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County, Carroll County, Frederick County, Harford County
Carroll County Genealogical Society. A Guide to Genealogical Research in Carroll County. 2nd edition. Westminster, MD: Carroll County Genealogical Society, 1991.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Carroll County
Elderdice, Dorothy. "The First Forty Years of the Historical Society of Carroll County." Carroll County Historical Society Newsletter 29 (May 1979): [2-4]; (November 1979): [1-2].
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Carroll County
Gelbert, Doug. Company Museums, Industry Museums, and Industrial Tours: A Guidebook of Sites in the United States That Are Open to the Public. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1994. 94-104.
Notes: Brief descriptions of fifteen industrial sites in Maryland. When considering sites on this topic most museum goers would probably know of the Baltimore Museum of Industry but people may overlook many of the other sites covered, such as the Ocean City Lifesaving Station Museum, the Poultry Hall of Fame, and the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Visitor Center.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Carroll County, Calvert County, Frederick County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Carroll County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Carroll County
"The Historical Society of Carroll County: Fifty Years of Service to the Community." Carroll County History Journal 40 (Winter 1990): 3-6.
Notes: The story of the Society's founding as told by its first curator.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Twentieth Century, Carroll County
"An Organizational Profile of the Historical Society of Carroll County." Carroll County History Journal 43 (Fall 1992): 7-8.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Carroll County
Maier, Pauline. The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
Notes: Includes a chapter on Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Carroll County
Papenfuse, Edward C. "An Undelivered Defense of a Winning Cause: Charles Carroll of Carrollton's 'Remarks on the Proposed Federal Constitution.'" Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Summer 1976): 220-51.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Carroll County
Griebel, Helen Bradley. "Carroll County Rug Hookers: Morphology of a Craft." Midwestern Folklore 17 (Spring 1991): 34-55.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Carroll County
"A May 1895 Wedding." Carroll County History Journal 48 (June 1997): 2.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Carroll County