The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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
Garrett, Jerre. Muffled Drums and Mustard Spoons: Cecil County, Maryland, 1860-1865. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing, 1996.
Notes: As the author clearly states this is "a collection of all the things that grabbed my attention" as she researched Cecil during the Civil War years. It is largely arranged by year. Included in the appendix are 18 pages of Civil War letters.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, Cecil 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
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
Jackson, A. Raymond. A. Raymond Jackson Recalls: Perryville, Maryland (1900-1913). Elkton, MD: Historical Society of Cecil County, 1994.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Cecil County
Johnston, George. History of Cecil County, Maryland. Elkton: Published by the author. 1881.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County
Lancaster, Harold. "The Burning of the Historic Clarysville Inn." Journal of the Alleghenies 35 (1999): 4-6.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
Levy, Ruth Bear. A Wee Bit of Scotland: Growing up in Lonaconing, Maryland at the Turn of the Century. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany 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
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
Manchester, Andi. "Chesapeake City." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 23 (January 1994): 25-29.
Categories: County and Local History, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
"The Maryland Directory: A Look at Cecil's Communities in 1882." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 62 (September 1992): 9-11; 64 (April 1993): 8-9.
Categories: County and Local History, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
"The Maryland Directory: A Look at Cecil's Communities in 1882." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 66 (December 1993): 4-5; 67 (April 1994): 6-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Mash, John. The Land of the Living. Cumberland, MD: Commercial Press, 1996.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Peterman, Father Thomas. "Cecilton in Cecil County." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 64 (April 1993): 4-5.
Categories: County and Local History, Cecil County
Preservation Society of Allegany County. In Celebration of Cumberland's Bicentennial, 1787-1987: A Pictorial Review. Cumberland, MD: The Society, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Pryor, Gwen. "Fires and Volunteers." Journal of the Alleghenies 35 (1999): 7-9.
Notes: Fires are frequently of interest to local history researchers, this brief essay describes twentieth century fires in the Frostburg area.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Allegany County