The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Hanst, Polly. "Centennial Reflections." Glades Star 6 (June 1989): 315-17.
Notes: Oakland.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
Harvey, Heather. "Steyer History." Glades Star 8 (March 1998): 342-45.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
Hattery, Thomas H., ed. Western Maryland : A Profile. Foreword by Charles McC. Mathias Jr. Mt. Airy, MD: Lomond Books, 1980.
Notes: This work describes the Counties which make up Maryland's Sixth Congressional District. The chapters are written by individuals involved in current affairs. The focus is on politics, government, and the economic nature of the counties. There is a great deal of statistical information. Chapter VIII includes brief essays on the future of Western Maryland by notable Maryland Officials, such as Governor Hughes, the heads of various state agencies, and people of note in the counties.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Carroll County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Howard County, Washington County
"Hyattstown, Maryland: Time and Place Preserved." The Preservationist 3 (January/February 1988): 4-5.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, Prince George's County
"The Isolation of Oakland." Glades Star 6 (March 1991): 525-27.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
Jensen, Ann. "Annapolis at War." Annapolitan 5 (June 1991): 36-41, 86.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Anne Arundel County
Kahl, Martha W. "Execution in Garrett County." Glades Star 5 (September 1982): 435-37.
Notes: Execution of John Smith in 1883.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County
Kelbaugh, Jack. "'What If' and Gibson's Island." Anne Arundel County History Notes 21 (April 1990): 7.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Kelbaugh, Jack. "Portland: One of Anne Arundel's Vanished Villages." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (January 1991): 7-8.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Military, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Kelly, Jacques. Anne Arundel County: A Pictorial History. Norfolk, VA: Donning Company, 1989.
Notes: Kelly, a leader of Maryland's photohistory genre, divides the County into five regions -- Glen Burnie, Severna Park, Annapolis, South Count, and Fort Meade and Oddnton. He also includes a chapter on transportation.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Kraus, Walter L. "Belle Chance at Andrews Air Force Base: A Piece of Maryland's Past." Maryland Historical Magazine 83 (Fall 1988): 268-73.
Notes: Kraus argues that Andrews has the most historic setting of any airforce base in the country. He then goes on to discuss the history of the ownership of the land and the history of Belle Chance, a house on base.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Military, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Layman, Kathleen B., and Margaret M. Harless. "A History of Finzel." Glades Star 5 (December 1979): 198-201.
Categories: County and Local History, Garrett County
Long, Helen R. Index for the Garrett County Section of Scharf's History of Western Maryland, Volume 2. Topeka, KS: Copy Center, 1988.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County
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
McCoy, Frederick L. "Maryland and St. Mary's County Men in the Revolution." Chronicles of St. Mary's 30 (September 1982): 481-86.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Eighteenth Century, St. Mary's County
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
Marks, Bayly Ellen, ed. Landmarks of the Revolutionary Era in Maryland. Annapolis: Maryland Bicentennial Commission, 1975.
Notes: 4 booklets on Southern Maryland, the Eastern Shore, Central Maryland, and Western Maryland.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Military, Eighteenth Century
Martin, Percy E. "Sam Arnold and Hookstown." History Trails 16 (Summer 1982): 13-16.
Notes: One of the co-conspirators in the Lincoln assassination.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Military, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
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
Meyer, Eric. "Pax River, Lexington Park: The Right Place for the Right Stuff." Maryland 22 (Autumn 1989): 44-49.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Military, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's 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.