The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Tack, George E. "The Romantic Gwynn's Falls Valley." History Trails 26 (Autumn 1991-Winter 1991-92): 1-5.
Notes: A reprint of poet Tack's 1907 <em>Maryland Monthly Magazine</em> article describing the Valley, its businesses, its mills, its homes, etc., including the natural world. It ends with a poem by Folger McKinsey and one by Tack on the Valley.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Thomas, Dawn F., and Robert Barnes. The Green Spring Valley-Its History and Heritage. 2 vols. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1978.
Notes: One of the largest histories dedicated to a Maryland locale. The first half of the first volume includes intensive information on the area's land grants, biographical sketches of early settlers, a discussion of the economic development of the area, histories of the area's religious congregations, the areas educational institutions, and horse culture. The second portion deals with the history of the area's houses and the people who lived in them. The second volume, by Robert Barnes, is a genealogy of 32 major families.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Education, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County
Toomey, Daniel Carroll. A History of Relay, Maryland, and the Thomas Viaduct. Published by The Author, 1975.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Howard County
Toomey, Daniel Carroll. A History of Relay, Maryland, and the Thomas Viaduct. Baltimore: Toomey Press, 1984; revised edition. Linthicum, MD: Toomey Press, 1995.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Howard County
Tyson, John S. The Founders of Ellicott's Mills. Privately printed, sold for the benefit of the Maryland Historical Society, 1994.
Notes: A series of articles originally published in 1847 in the <em>Howard District Press</em>.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County, Howard County
Villages of Northeast Baltimore County: Origins to c. 1940. [Baltimore County, MD]: Greater Northeast Baltimore County Historical District Committee, [1991?].
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore County
"The Volunteer Tradition." History Trails 9 (Autumn 1974): 1-8.
Notes: A history of Baltimore County's various volunteer fire companies, arranged by location and order of development.
Categories: County and Local History, Medicine, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Warfield, Missy. "History Keeps a Valley Green." Maryland Horse 43 (September 1977): 36-41.
Notes: Comments about Worthington Valley.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County
Weaver, Betsy, and Gary E. Frederick. Hands, Horses, and Engines: A Centennial History of the County Fire Service. Towson, MD: Baltimore CFSCC, 1982.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Weidemeyer, Carleton L. Baltimore County's Second District Inhabitants During the Emerging Thirties: Hebbville and Woodlawn. Clearwater, FL: Published by the author, 1990.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore County
Wennersten, John R. Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Journey in Time and Place. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1992.
Notes: Wennersten's goal is to make the reader understand the distinct society that is the eastern shore through discussion of the area's agricultural life, its race relations, and maritime society. Brief histories are given of some communities and mention made of some influential people.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Wilstach, Paul. Tidewater Maryland. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931.
Notes: A narrative history of those Maryland counties, all but seven of the twenty-three, touched by saltwater, arranged by theme and locale. There is a great deal of emphasis on the founding of towns and important personages, a wide variety of subjects are covered.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Harford County, Kent County, Prince George's County, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Woodlawn History Committee. Woodlawn, Franklintown and Hebbville. Woodlawn, MD: Woodlawn Recreation and Parks Council, 1977.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Bunting, Elaine, and Patricia D'Amario. Counties of Northern Maryland. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 2000.
Notes: A series designed for young readers.
Categories: Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County, Carroll County, Frederick County, Harford County
Dare, Charles P. "Wild Fowl of the Chesapeake." History Trails 18 (Summer 1984): 13-16.
Davis, Lynn. "Garden Roots." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Sunshine 1988): 154-67.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
DeGast, Robert. Western Wind, Eastern Shore: A Sailing Cruise Around the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.
Notes: De Gast sails a small boat around the entire DelMarVa Peninsula, an interesting voyage with useful observations.
Categories: Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Footner, Hulbert. Rivers of the Eastern Shore. Seventeen Maryland Rivers. New York: Holt Reinhart and Winston, 1944.
Notes: Footner writes mostly stories about history, but he does view Chesapeake river environments from a mid-1940s perspective.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Heckscher, Christopher M. "Distribution and Habitat Associations of the Eastern Mud Salamander, Pseudotriton montanus, on the Delmarva Peninsula." Maryland Naturalist 39 (January-June 1995): 11-14.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Redman, Donnell E. "An Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Flora of Oregon Ridge Park, Baltimore County, Maryland." Maryland Naturalist 43 (January/June 1999): 1-31.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Baltimore County
Redman, Donnell E. "The Livebearing Fish, Gambusia holbrooki, in Loch Raven Watershed Baltimore County, Maryland." Maryland Naturalist 38 (January/June 1994): 28-30.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Baltimore County
Scott, Jane. Between Ocean and Bay: A Natural History of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Woodbury, Elton N. Butterflies of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Hollifield, William. "Maryland Monthly Magazine." History Trails 26 (Autumn 1991-Winter 1991-92): 6-7.
Preston, Dickson J. Newspapers of Maryland's Eastern Shore. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore