The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Meyer, Richard D. "Parkton Stone Bridge Possibly Oldest in State." History Trails 15 (Winter 1980/81): 5-6.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County
Newell, Dianne. The Failure to Preserve the Queen City Hotel, Cumberland, Maryland. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1975.
Silverman, Sharon H. "The Castle B&B." Maryland 27 (July/August 1995): 58-62.
Ware, Donna M. Green Glades & Sooty Gob Piles: The Maryland Coal Region's Industrial and Architectural Past. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical and Cultural Publications, 1991.
Notes: Some 6,000 bridges, iron furnaces, log schoolhouses, company offices and stores, miner's houses, mill buildings, banks, churches, mansions, inns, resort cottages, and other structures associated with the extractive, manufacturing, and transportation industries of Garrett and western Allegany counties are surveyed and described here, with photographs, and contributions by Orlando Ridout, V, Geoffey B. Henry, and Mark R. Edwards. The largest project to date conducted by the Maryland Historical Trust is essential to an understanding of the unique remains of Maryland's historic resort area and coal and iron district.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Allegany County, Garrett County
Allen, Irvin G. Historic Oldtown Maryland. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Bross-Fregonara, Nanci. "Allegany County." Mid-Atlantic Country 12 (January 1991): WM11, WM15-16.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
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.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Queen Anne's County, Talbot County, Washington County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Buckley, Geoffrey L. "Converting Minerals into Merchandise: Landownership and Environmental Alteration in the George's Creek Valley of Western Maryland, 1789-1842." Historical Geography 26 (1998): 151-75.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County
Calderwood, Paul T. "The Keyser Ridge Creamery." Glades Star 5 (September 1977): 33-35.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Chapelle, Suzanne Ellery Greene. Baltimore, An Illustrated History. American Historical Press, 2000.
Notes: A history of Baltimore, 1608-2000, for the general reader. A chronological history is presented which touches upon growth, politics, economics, education, cultural organizations, etc. Included at the end is a series of approximately 45 histories of leading 20th century businesses, companies, and organizations.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Crawford, Joan B. "A Heritage Preserved: The Creative Traditions of Western Maryland." Maryland 25 (Summer 1993): 38-44.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County, Washington County
Erickson, Marie Anne. "Thurmont." Historical Society of Frederick County Journal [3] (Summer 1994): 5-6.
Categories: County and Local History, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Frederick County
Erlick, David P. "The Peales and Gas Lights in Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Spring 1985): 9-18.
Notes: In 1816 Baltimore became the first city lite by gas lighting. What began as exhibitions at the Peale Museum became the Gas Light Company of Baltimore.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Religion, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Fair, Patricia Stover, comp. Everyname Index to History of Allegany County Maryland. Oklahoma City, OK: Fair Printing Co., 1991.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L. Downtown Cumberland. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1988.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert. Feldstein's All New Historic Postcard Album of Allegany County, Maryland. Volume II. Cumberland, MD: Commercial Press Printing Co., 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L. Feldstein's Historic Allegany County: A Video Postcard Extravaganza. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1990.
Notes: Videotape.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L. Feldstein's Historic Banner Front Pages of the Cumberland Daily News, Cumberland News, and Cumberland Evening Times Vol. I: The Twentieth Century. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L. Feldstein's Historic Newspapers of Allegany County Vol. II-The 19th and 20th C. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert. Feldstein's Historic Postcard Album of Allegany County, Maryland. Cumberland: MD: Commercial Press Printing Co., 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L. Feldstein's Illustrated Tour Guide to Historic Sites in Allegany County. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1990.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L., ed. Feldstein's Revised I Remember Downtown Cumberland, 1950-1980. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1994.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L., comp. Feldstein's Top Historic Postcard Views of Allegany County, Maryland. Allegany County, MD: Commercial Press Printing Co., 1997.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Frostburg Bicentennial Committee. Frostburg Salutes the Bicentennial. Frostburg, MD: Citizen Office Equipment Co., 1976.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Gude, Gilbert. Where the Potomac Begins: A History of the North Branch Valley. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks, Press, 1984.
Notes: A history of the coal communities of Kemptown, MD, and Elk Garden, WV. Nicely illustrated, including 1939 Farm Security Administration photos, by John Vachon, of the Kemptwon miners and their families.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Allegany County, Garrett County