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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
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.
Dowell, Susan Stiles. "The Water Gardens of Lilypons." Maryland 22 (Autumn 1989): 16-21.
Erickson, Marie Anne. "Crossroads: Johnsville." Frederick Magazine (June 1992): 10-1.
Molter, Nelson J. Severna Park, Anne Arundel County, Maryland: A History of the Area. 2 vols. Severna Park, MD: [N.p.] 1969, 1988.
Molter, Nelson J. "A New Century - 100 Years Ago." Glades Star 9 (December 1999): 149, 160.
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
Szabo, Steve. The Eastern Shore. Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1976.
Annotation / Notes: Photographic essay.
Categories:
Agriculture,
Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning,
County and Local History,
Economic, Business, and Labor History,
Environment,
Fine and Decorative Arts,
Science and Technology,
Twentieth Century,
Cecil County,
Dorchester County,
Kent County,
Queen Anne's County,
Somerset County,
Talbot County,
Worcester County,
Chesapeake Region,
Eastern Shore
Tack, George E. "The Romantic Gwynn's Falls Valley." History Trails 26 (Autumn 1991-Winter 1991-92): 1-5.
Annotation / Notes: A reprint of poet Tack's 1907 Maryland Monthly Magazine article describing the Valley, its businesses, its mills, its homes, etc., including the natural world. It ends with a poem by Folger McKinsey and one by Tack on the Valley.
Warren, Marion E. Bringing Back the Bay: the Chesapeake in the photographs of Marion E. Warren and the voices of its people. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Annotation / Notes: Modern photographs accompanied with oral history text. Of special interest is the "photographer's commentaries" on his work.
White, Dan. Crosscurrents in Quiet Water: Portraits of the Chesapeake. Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Co., 1987.
Annotation / Notes: A photo essay of the changing lives of the Eastern Shore's peoples focusing on watermen, boat builders, environmentalists, and chicken farmers. Special emphasis is placed on Smith Island and Crisfield. Photographs by Jon Naso and Marion Warren.
Abbott, Collaner M. "Colonial Copper Mines." William and Mary Quarterly 27 (1970): 295-309.
Alford, John J. "The Role of Management in Chesapeake Oyster Production." Geographical Review 63 (1973): 44-54.
Categories:
Economic, Business, and Labor History,
Environment
Anft, Michael. "Fix the City: Down by the Old Mill Stream." Baltimore 90 (February 1997): 26-29, 104-5.
Categories:
Economic, Business, and Labor History,
Environment
Benson, Robert Louis. "Historical Survey of the Natural Resources of Anne Arundel County." Anne Arundel County History Notes 23 (October 1991): 11-13.
Benson, Robert Louis. "Historical Survey of the Natural Resources of Anne Arundel County-Part Two." Anne Arundel County History Notes 23 (January 1992): 13-14.
Brait, Susan. Chesapeake Gold: Man & Oyster on the Bay. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1990.
Buckley, Geoffrey L. "The Environmental Transformation of an Appalachian Valley, 1850-1906." Geographical Review 88 (April 1998): 175-98.
Buckley, Geoffrey Littlefield. Tapping the Big Vein: Coal Mining and Environmental Alterations in Maryland's Appalachian Region, 1789-1906. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 1997.
Burton, Bill. "Cold Fish, Ice Fish." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 23 (December 1993): 16, 38.
Burton, Bill. "Fishy Politics." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 24 (November 1994): 26, 28, 80.
Cameron, Mark. "Monuments of Urbanity: The Development of Baltimore's Residential Squares." Maryland Humanities (Winter 1998): 5.
Jefferson, Thomas, and Merrill D. Peterson, ed. Thomas Jefferson, Writings. New York: Penguin Books, Literary Classics of the United States, 1984.
Annotation / Notes: Jefferson, while a Virginian, re-invented the moldboard plow which ultimately was responsible for massive soil erosion Chesapeake Basin-wide. He made many pronouncements affecting Maryland agriculture and development in America.
Johnson, Paula J. Working the Water: The Commercial Fisheries of Maryland's Patuxent River. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1988.
Annotation / Notes: Johnson's book covers many of the fishing techniques and inventions which have so strongly impacted Chesapeake Bay's natural resources.
Kelly, Frank. "Coal Reclamation." Maryland 20 (Summer 1988): 70-71.