The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Allman, William G. "Bethesda Park: 'The Handsomest Park in the United States'." Montgomery County Story 34 (August 1991): 165-76.
Notes: Amusement parks, often owned by the same individuals who controlled public transportation, encouraged the spread of development. Bethesda Park, which only existed for about five years, played such a role in Bethesda.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Anderson, George M. "The Civil War Courtship of Richard Mortimer Williams and Rose Anderson of Rockville." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Summer 1985): 119-138.
Notes: The story of the couple's courtship taken from Williams's writings. Insight is offered into life in Rockville, the county seat, during that period.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County, Civil War
Anderson, George M. "Correspondence of Thomas Anderson of Rockville with his Parents, James and Mary Anderson, 1855 - 1859." Maryland Historical Magazine 78 (Spring 1983): 1-21.
Notes: Offers details of rural life in Montgomery County.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Ball, Walter V. "The History of Mount Pleasant." Montgomery County Story 20 (February 1977): 8-12.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Barnett, Todd H. "Tobacco, Planters, Tenants, and Slaves: A Portrait of Montgomery County in 1783." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Summer 1994): 184-203.
Notes: Using the Maryland State Assessment of 1783, this study evaluates the condition of the Montgomery County community. Montgomery was the western most of Maryland's tobacco counties. This economy left Montgomery with exhausted farmland, as well as a poor, landless, and unstable population. Comparison is made with Frederick where the soil was essentially the same but had not been damaged by tobacco farming.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Eighteenth Century, Frederick County, Montgomery County
Barrow, Healan J., and Kristine Stevens. Olney: Echoes of the Past. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Montgomery County
Bataller, Neal. "Ednor and Norwood-Quiet Reminders of the Past." Legacy 19 (Fall 1999): 1, 5.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Geography and Cartography, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Bayley, Ned. "Colesville-In the Beginning." Montgomery County Story 36 (February 1993): 237-48.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Bayley, Ned. Colesville: The Development of a County, Its People and its Natural Resources, Over a Period of Four Centuries. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1997.
Categories: County and Local History, Montgomery County
Beitzell, Edwin W. St. Mary's County, Maryland in the American Revolution: Calendar of Events. Leonardtown, MD: St. Mary's County Bicentennial Commission, 1975.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, St. Mary's County
Benson, Robert Louis. "Notes on South County." Anne Arundel County History Notes 23 (July 1992): 5-6.
Benson, Robert Louis. "Notes on South County: Part V." Anne Arundel County History Notes 25 (October 1993): 9, 14.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Benson, Robert Louis. "Notes on South County: Part IV: Additional Recollections of William H. Hall IV." Anne Arundel County History Notes 24 (April 1993): 9-10.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Boggs, Ardith Gunderman. Goshen, Maryland, A History and Its People. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Montgomery County
Booth, Oscar. "Annapolis in Fiction." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (January 1995): 1-2.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Military, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Boyd, Thomas Hulings Stockton. The History of Montgomery County, Maryland, from its earliest settlement in 1650 to 1879. Clarksburgh, MD [Baltimore, W. K. Boyle & son, printers], 1879; reprint, Baltimore: Regional Pub. Co, 1968.
Notes: Written following the American, and the County's, Centennial, this work places special emphasis on land grants and prominent men. Includes a directory of the towns, villages, and residents.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County, Montgomery County
Brigham, David L. "Ashton: From Unpaved Crossroad to 'Downtown'." Legacy 19 (Winter 1999): 1, 4-5.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Geography and Cartography, Religion, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Canby, Tom, and Elie S. Rogers. Sandy Spring Legacy. Sandy Spring, MD: Sandy Spring Museum, 1999.
Notes: A history of greater Sandy Spring which includes Brookeville, Ashton, Olney, Brinklow/Cincinnati, Brighton, and Laytonsville/Mt. Zion. Nearly 200 pages of historic images, all sepia, are arranged around themes or communities, i.e. "Some Childhood Recollections ...","The Era of the Grist Mills","Early Churches Take Root","Old Homes Bespeak Prosperity and Taste". Small historic maps of the communities are included.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Canby, Tom. "When Sandy Spring Struck GOLD!" Legacy 15 (Winter 1996): 1, 7.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
"Capitol View Park: Historic District With Wilderness Flavor . . . and Long Romance with the Railroad." The Preservationist 4 (November-December 1988): 4-5.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Chance, Merritt O. "Unity." Legacy 19 (Summer 1999): 1, 5.
Categories: County and Local History, Montgomery County
Cochran, Sheila. "The Early History of River Road." The Montgomery County Story 28 (November 1985): 183-196.
Coleman, Margaret M. "Roots for the New Neighborhood of Beau Monde Estates." Montgomery County Story 23 (November 1980): 1-11.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Coleman, Margaret Marshall, and Anne Dennis Lewis. Montgomery County: A Pictorial History. Norfolk, VA: Donning Company, 1984; revised edition. Norfolk, VA: Donning Company, 1990.
Notes: A variety of images, a great deal of text. The revised edition includes a chapter of one to two page histories of major businesses and organizations in the County and a chapter of color photos of the county during the 1980s.
Cook, Eleanor M. V. "Life in Montgomery County at the Turn of the Last Century." Montgomery County Story 42 (November 1999): 101-12.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County