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Browne, Gary L. "Urban Centers of the Past." Maryland Heritage News 2 (Fall 1984): 6-7.
Annotation / 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
Colbert, Judy. Country Towns of Maryland and Delaware. Oaks, PA: Country Roads Press, 1996.
Categories:
County and Local History,
Economic, Business, and Labor History,
Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works,
Twentieth Century,
Baltimore County,
Cecil County,
Carroll County,
Calvert County,
Frederick County,
Harford County,
Queen Anne's County,
Somerset County,
Talbot County,
Washington County,
Worcester County,
Chesapeake Region,
Eastern Shore
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.
Annotation / 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
Hagaman, Robert A. Personal Battles: The Lives of Maryland's Black Civil War Veterans, 1840-1920. Ph.D. diss., Northern Illinois University, 2004.
Dixon, Michael L. "Assessing the Risk: Insurance Cartography in Cecil Co." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County, 74 (Autumn 1996): 6-7.