The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Pittman, LaVern. "Walnut Level: A Model Farm in Allegany County." Journal of the Alleghenies 30 (1994): 3-12.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Allegany County
Clawson, Frank D. "Thomas Kennedy--Hagerstown's 'Thomas Jefferson.'" Cracker Barrel 17 (July 1987): 11.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Washington County
Clem, Richard E. "Washington County Has an Unsung Confederate Hero!" Cracker Barrel 19 (January 1990): 12-14.
Notes: Major James Breathed.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Washington County
Curtis, Peter H. "Murder in Western Maryland: The Life and Death of George Swearingen, Sheriff of Washington County." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Fall 1993): 286-96.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Nineteenth Century, Washington County
Dean, David M. "Meshach Browning: Bear Hunter of Allegany County, 1781-1859." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Spring 1996): 73-83.
Notes: Meshach Browning was the author of an autobiography, <em>Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter</em>, that might more properly be seen as a tall tale wrapped around the framework of an actual life. Browning (1751-1859) inhabited the frontier in the westernmost part of Maryland that later became Garrett County. He claimed to have killed 400 bears in his career. For those attracted to the stories of Davy Crockett or Paul Bunyon, Meshach Browning's life offers entertaining reading.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
The McKaig Journal, a Confederate Family of Cumberland. Cumberland, MD: Allegheny County Historical Society, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County
Mumma, Wilmer M. "'Greatest Circus Fan on Earth'." Maryland Cracker Barrel 19 (October 1989): 5-7.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Nelson, John N. 'What God Does is Well Done': The Jonathan Hager Files. Hagerstown, MD: City of Hagerstown, 1997.
Stotelmeyer, Steven R. "The Reno Monument Story." Maryland Cracker Barrel 19 (September 1989): 17, 19-20.
Stutesman, John Hale. "Stephen Ulrich of Washington County, Maryland." Mennonite Family History 12 (April 1993): 78-79.
Urbas, Anton. "Tony Urbas Has a Career Change." Journal of the Alleghenies 35 (1999): 37-48.
Davis, A. Vernon. "The Local Scene." Maryland Cracker Barrel 19 (January 1990): 3-5.
Notes: Fort Frederick and the Williams Family.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Washington County
Cordts, Jeanne M. "Iron Fences in Frostburg." Journal of the Alleghenies 31 (1995): 89-98.
Cumberland Historic Buildings Cumberland, MD: Mayor and City Council, 1987.
Dahlhamer, Gloria. "The Miller House Speaks Eloquently of Village Life." Maryland 13 (Winter 1980): 23-26.
Notes: House in Hagerstown.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Washington County
Davis, A. Vernon. "Railroad YMCA Was Important Brunswick Institution for 70 Years." Cracker Barrel 17 (March 1988): 14-15.
Newell, Dianne. The Failure to Preserve the Queen City Hotel, Cumberland, Maryland. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1975.
Silverman, Sharon H. "The Castle B&B." Maryland 27 (July/August 1995): 58-62.
Stoner, Paula. "Early Folk Architecture of Washington County." Maryland Historical Magazine 72 (Winter 1977): 512-22.
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: Some 6,000 bridges, iron furnaces, log schoolhouses, company offices and stores, miner's houses, mill buildings, banks, churches, mansions, inns, resort cottages, and other structures associated with the extractive, manufacturing, and transportation industries of Garrett and western Allegany counties are surveyed and described here, with photographs, and contributions by Orlando Ridout, V, Geoffey B. Henry, and Mark R. Edwards. The largest project to date conducted by the Maryland Historical Trust is essential to an understanding of the unique remains of Maryland's historic resort area and coal and iron district.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Allegany County, Garrett County
Allen, Irvin G. Historic Oldtown Maryland. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Barron, Lee. The History of Sharpsburg, Maryland. Sharpsburg, MD: [Published by the author], 1972.
Categories: County and Local History, Washington County
Bross-Fregonara, Nanci. "Allegany County." Mid-Atlantic Country 12 (January 1991): WM11, WM15-16.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
Browne, Gary L. "Urban Centers of the Past." Maryland Heritage News 2 (Fall 1984): 6-7.
Notes: A variety of factors effect the rise and fall of urban centers -- transportation, market, environmental, and political changes, as well as the rise of other centers. Browne presents a brief discussion of the fate of approximately ten urban centers.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Queen Anne's County, Talbot County, Washington County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Buckley, Geoffrey L. "Converting Minerals into Merchandise: Landownership and Environmental Alteration in the George's Creek Valley of Western Maryland, 1789-1842." Historical Geography 26 (1998): 151-75.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County