The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Long, Helen R. Index to Scharf's History of Western Maryland, Volumes I and II. Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1995.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Carroll County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Montgomery County, Washington County
Love, Mary I. The Family Hardware Store: Mirror of a Community. Oakland, MD: A. B. Naylor, Jr., 1984.
Love, Mary I. "'The Mountain Chautauqua': Mountain Lake Park 1881-1941." Glades Star 5 (March 1982): 385-401; (September 1982): 434-35.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Love, Mary I. Once upon a Mountaintop: The Improbable History of Mt. Lake Park. Oakland, MD: Sincell Publishing Company, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
McElrath, Doug. "Riverdale Park: The Story Behind the Name." Riverdale Town Crier 27 (May 1998): 1, 10.
McWilliams, Rita. "Great Elevations." Mid-Atlantic Country 13 (January 1992): 54-58, 63.
Notes: A tourism piece, but one which offers good basic information on a number of western Maryland's geological landmarks -- Crystal Grottoes Caverns, Sideling Hill Road Cut, and The Devil's Racecourse.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Washington County
Mayfield, Wayne. "Hutton, 'In the Shadow of a Boom Town'." Glades Star 7 (March 1995): 504-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County
Molter, Nelson J. An Illustrated History of Severna Park, Anne Arundel County, Maryland: The Annapolis Short Line & W.B.A. Railroads, with A Brief Mention of the Surrounding Communities. [Annapolis, MD]: [Whitmore Print. & Stationary Co.], 1969.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Molter, Nelson J. Severna Park, Anne Arundel County, Maryland: A History of the Area. 2 vols. Severna Park, MD: [N.p.] 1969, 1988.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
"More About Davis, Maryland." Glades Star 7 (September 1993): 224-25.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
"More About 'Isaac's Camp'." Glades Star 8 (September 1996): 99.
"A New Century - 100 Years Ago." Glades Star 9 (December 1999): 149, 160.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County
"New Germany: 50 Years of Winter Recreation." Glades Star 6 (March 1989): 295-98.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Noll, Linda. "The Land of Promise: A Brief History of the Site." Harford Historical Bulletin 70 (Fall 1996): 127-31.
Notes: Steppingstone Museum.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Eighteenth Century, Harford County
"Notes on the Origin of Garrett County, MD." Glades Star 5 (September 1977): 27-29.
"The Oakland Centennial Celebration." Glades Star 6 (June 1989): 306-15.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
"Oakland Centennial 40 Years Ago." Glades Star 6 (June 1989): 302-3.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
"Oakland Sesquicentennial Chronicle." Glades Star 9 (December 1999): 154-59.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Olson, Sherry H. Baltimore. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publisher Company, 1976.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Olson, Sherry H. Baltimore: The Building of an American City. Revised edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Notes: The product of a geographer, this excellent history of Baltimore focuses on its physical growth as an urban center. Special emphasis is placed on how the city, and its inhabitants, handled the changes brought about by city growth.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
"Once, There Really was a Davis, MD." Glades Star 6 (June 1991): 548-50.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
Papenfuse, Edward C. "What's in a Name? Why Should We Remember?" News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 24 (June/July 1996): 1-5.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Prince George's County
Peden, Henry C., Jr. "Harford County Place Names, Past and Present, Their Location, Origin and Meaning, Part I: A-J." Harford Historical Bulletin 78 (Fall 1998): 3-52.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Harford County
Pogue, Dennis J. "Calverton, Calvert County, Maryland, 1668-1725." Calvert Historian 9 (Spring 1994): 68-79.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Calvert County
Pogue, Dennis J. "Calverton, Calvert County, Maryland: 1668-1725." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 371-376.
Notes: Calverton, the originally county seat of Calvert County, was one of the few towns in Colonial Southern Maryland. The discovery of an 1862 plat of this town, the earliest know plat of a Maryland town, greatly added to the information available on the town. Calverton is now believed to be of much greater importance than previously thought. It was an prominent governmental, economic, and population center.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Calvert County