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Harris, Walter G. "The 1884 Kent County Jail." Old Kent 4 (March 1988): 1-2.
Forman, Henry Chandlee. The Rolling Year on Maryland's Upper Eastern Shore. Centreville, MD: Corsica Bookshop, 1985.
Jopp, Harold D. Rediscovery of the Eastern Shore: Delmarva Travelogues of the 1870s. Wye Mills, MD: Chesapeake College Press, 1986.
Annotation / Notes: Reprints of articles by four different authors which appeared in the leading nineteenth century publications of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Lippincott's Magazine, and Scribner's Monthly. The authors included noted illustrator Howard Pyle and Maryland writer George Townsend.
Reps, John. Tidewater Towns: City Planning in Colonial Virginia and Maryland. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1972.
Annotation / Notes: Early towns did not generally spring out of nowhere. Town planning was common and an important part of Chesapeake Maryland's colonial history. The government played an active role in the founding and formation of towns. Annapolis and the District of Columbia were unique in that their plans did not resemble those common amongst other English colonies.
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Brown, C. Christopher. "Democracy's Incursion into the Eastern Shore: The 1870 Election in Chestertown." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Fall 1994): 338-46.
Grindle, Jenifer. "'My Dear Nannie': Society and the Role of Women in 19th Century Maryland and Washington D.C." Old Kent 9 (Summer 1992): 1, 3-4.
Shugg, Wallace. "'This Great Test of Man's Brutality': the Sulliven-Hyer Prizefight at Still Pond Heights, Maryland, in 1849." Maryland Historical Magazine 95 (Spring 2000): 46-63.
Hurst, Harold W. "Kent County and Chestertown in 1860." Maryland Historical Magazine, 98 (Spring 2003): 78-90.
Righi, Brandon P. "'A Power Unknown to Our Laws': Unionism in Kent County, Maryland, 1861-1865." Maryland Historical Magazine, 103 (Summer 2008): 186-221.
Kirby, Walter J. Roll Call: The Civil War in Kent County. Silver Spring, MD: Family Line Publications, 1985.
Richards, Mary Fallon. "Debtors of the Estate of William Henry, 1878, Kent County, Maryland." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist, 23 (January-March 1982): 23; (Sproing 1982): 53.
Janson-La Palme, Bayly Ellen. "The Consequences of Conflagration: A Study of the 300Block of High and the 100 Block of Cross Streets, Chestertown, 1898 to 1915." Key to Old Kent, 3 (2009): 2-27.
Kohl, Benjamin G. "Building the Third Church of Shrewsbury Parish, 1834-38: An Account Based on Contemporary Documents." Key to Old Kent, 4 (2010): 15-31.
Maddox, Lucy. "'A Liberal Share of Public Patronage': Chestertown's Antebellum Black Businesses." Key to Old Kent, 5 (no. 1, 2011): 23-31.
Maddox, Lucy. "'A Local Question': Kent County Quakers, the Underground Railroad, and a Woman Named Harriet." Maryland Historical Magazine, 108 (Spring 2013): 4-27.
Janson-La Palme, Bayly. "Ice Cream versus Hot Weather': Ice Cream Sales and Manufacturing in Chestertown from 1860 to 1925." Key to Old Kent, 7 (2014): 4-27.