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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

"Clifton Celebrates Being 250 Years Young." The Preservationist 7 (April-May 1992): 3.

Inventory of Historic Sites in Calvert County, Charles County, and St. Mary's County. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, 1980.

"Locust Grove: A Newly Restored Gem for Charles County." The Record 29 (September 1983): 1-3.

Shaw, Susan. "Reviving a Country Colonial in Southern Maryland." Historic Preservation 36 (August 1984): 8-11.
Notes: Restoration of Maxwell Hall, Charles County.

Trostel, Michael F. "Saint Thomas Manor." The Record 28 (May 1983): 1-3.
Notes: Charles County structure.

Atrim, Shane. "A Blue Dog Night?" Maryland 27 (July/August 1995): [39].

"Benedict and Cobb Island." Maryland 26 (July/August 1994): 38.

Blake, Allison. The Chesapeake Bay Book: A Complete Guide. 3rd edition. Lee, MA: Berkshire House Publishers, 1997.
Notes: A well researched tour guide for the general population.

Blumgart, Pamela James, ed. At the Head of the Bay: A Cultural and Architectural History of Cecil County, Maryland. Elkton, MD: Cecil Historical Trust, 1996.
Notes: This beautifully illustrated book presents a history of the development of the county along with a history of its architecture, including house forms, methods of construction, and outbuildings, along with brief write-ups on 700 historic sites.

Brown, Jack D., William A. Diggs, Gladys S. Jenkins, J. C. Karpiak, Elwood M. Leviner, Mary Clare Matthews, Janie MacInnis, Rona R. Schaepman, and Frederick Tilp. Charles County, Maryland: A History. South Hackensack: Custombook, 1976.

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.

Butruille, Susan G. "Waldorf." Maryland 16 (Winter 1983): 36-40.

"Charles County By Water." Maryland 26 (July/August 1994): 36-37.

"Charles County, Maryland: The Best Kept Secret This Side of the Potomac." Maryland 26 (July/August 1994): 34-35.

"Charles County, MD..It's Wild and Waterful." Maryland 27 (July/August 1995): [25-35].

Comer, Elizabeth Anderson, and Kirsten L. Stevens. "Mount Clare: Introducing Baltimore to Eighteenth Century Splendor." Maryland Archeology 26 (March and September 1990): 86-94.
Notes: A discussion of Charles Carroll, the Barrister's, Baltimore estate, with special emphasis on the gardens and the archeological work done there during the mid-1980s as a percussor to landscape restoration.

Compton, Amy. "Ferreting Out History in Charles County: A Mini-Tour for Cars or Bikes." Maryland 6 (Spring 1974): 6-9.

Cronin, William B. "Cobb Island." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 19 (July 1989): 72-74.

Dessaint, A. Y. Southern Maryland Yesterday and Today: Crab Pots and Sotweed Fields. Prince Frederick, MD: Calvert County Historical Society, 1984.
Notes: Historic photographs and excerpts from 60 of the "best" works on Southern Maryland. Arranged predominately by theme, the chapters include working the land, working the water, life in the home, and life in the community. A ten page introduction gives a brief chronological history of the area.

Earle, Swepson. The Chesapeake Bay Country. Baltimore: Thomsen-Ellis Company, 1923.
Notes: Divided into three regions -- southeastern Maryland, Upper Bay, and the Eastern Shore, this work includes a history for each, written by five noted authors, followed by a description of the counties in each, along with places of interest and the people of these places. The histories of the areas places special emphasis on major houses and genealogy of the owners. It is nicely illustrated with contemporary photographs, which nearly 80 years later serve as historic images. There are four pages of interesting photos of African Americans.

Hopkins, Fred. "Opportunity, Accomplishment, and Betrayal: The Saga of William Claiborne's 17th-Century Settlement in the Upper Chesapeake." In Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Edited by John D. Broadwater, 2-5. Richmond, VA: Society for Historical Archaeology, 1991, 2-5.

Kihl, Kim R. Port Tobacco: A Transformed Community. Baltimore: Maclay and Associates, 1982.

King, Julia A. "Rural Life in Mid-19th Century St. Mary's County: The Susquehanna Farm at Cedar Point." Chronicle of St. Mary's 38 (Spring 1990): 289-300.
Notes: A discussion of the nineteenth century rural character of St. Mary's County as seen through life at Susquehanna Farm. Two worlds inhabited the farm. The world of the land owner and his family and the world of the slaves who worked the farm.

Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth Bradner. Landscape as Myth: The Contextual Archaeology of an Annapolis Landscape. Ph.D. diss., Brown University, 1991.

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