The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Grant, John A. 150 Years of Oakland: Oakland, Maryland, 1999. Oakland, MD: Garrett County Historical Society, 1999.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
Grant, John A. "A Trip to Kendall." Glades Star 7 (June 1993): 202-6.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
"Grantsville's Dorsey Hotel." Glades Star 6 (June 1989): 317-18.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Education, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County
Gude, Gilbert. Where the Potomac Begins: A History of the North Branch Valley. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks, Press, 1984.
Notes: A history of the coal communities of Kemptown, MD, and Elk Garden, WV. Nicely illustrated, including 1939 Farm Security Administration photos, by John Vachon, of the Kemptwon miners and their families.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Allegany County, Garrett County
Guy, Mrs. Bernard. "Bloomington's Civic Club." Glades Star 5 (September 1979): 170-73, 190.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Hanna, Stephen P. "Finding a Place in the World-Economy: Core-Periphery Relations, The Nation-State and the Underdevelopment of Garrett County, Maryland." Political Geography [Great Britain] 14 (June 1995): 451-72.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
Hanst, Polly. "Centennial Reflections." Glades Star 6 (June 1989): 315-17.
Notes: Oakland.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
Harvey, Heather. "Steyer History." Glades Star 8 (March 1998): 342-45.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett 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
"The Isolation of Oakland." Glades Star 6 (March 1991): 525-27.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
Kahl, Martha W. "Execution in Garrett County." Glades Star 5 (September 1982): 435-37.
Notes: Execution of John Smith in 1883.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County
Layman, Kathleen B., and Margaret M. Harless. "A History of Finzel." Glades Star 5 (December 1979): 198-201.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
Long, Helen R. Index for the Garrett County Section of Scharf's History of Western Maryland, Volume 2. Topeka, KS: Copy Center, 1988.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Garrett 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
Love, Mary I. The Family Hardware Store: Mirror of a Community. Oakland, MD: A. B. Naylor, Jr., 1984.
Love, Mary I. "'The Mountain Chautauqua': Mountain Lake Park 1881-1941." Glades Star 5 (March 1982): 385-401; (September 1982): 434-35.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Love, Mary I. Once upon a Mountaintop: The Improbable History of Mt. Lake Park. Oakland, MD: Sincell Publishing Company, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
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.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Washington County
Mayfield, Wayne. "Hutton, 'In the Shadow of a Boom Town'." Glades Star 7 (March 1995): 504-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County
"More About Davis, Maryland." Glades Star 7 (September 1993): 224-25.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
"More About 'Isaac's Camp'." Glades Star 8 (September 1996): 99.
"A New Century - 100 Years Ago." Glades Star 9 (December 1999): 149, 160.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County
"New Germany: 50 Years of Winter Recreation." Glades Star 6 (March 1989): 295-98.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
"Notes on the Origin of Garrett County, MD." Glades Star 5 (September 1977): 27-29.
"The Oakland Centennial Celebration." Glades Star 6 (June 1989): 306-15.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Garrett County