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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Pogue, Dennis J. "Calverton, Calvert County, Maryland: 1668-1725." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 371-376.
Notes: Calverton, the originally county seat of Calvert County, was one of the few towns in Colonial Southern Maryland. The discovery of an 1862 plat of this town, the earliest know plat of a Maryland town, greatly added to the information available on the town. Calverton is now believed to be of much greater importance than previously thought. It was an prominent governmental, economic, and population center.

Pogue, Dennis J. King's Reach and 17th-Century Plantation Life. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical and Cultural Publications, 1990.
Notes: A discussion of the archeological digs at King's Reach and what the findings tell of life at the time, focussing on what can be learned of the plantation's physical layout.

Prince George's Community County: An Oral History Collection by Students of Prince George's Community College. Largo, MD: Prince George's Community College, 1986.

Reps, John. Tidewater Towns: City Planning in Colonial Virginia and Maryland. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1972.
Notes: Early towns did not generally spring out of nowhere. Town planning was common and an important part of Chesapeake Maryland's colonial history. The government played an active role in the founding and formation of towns. Annapolis and the District of Columbia were unique in that their plans did not resemble those common amongst other English colonies.

Riverdale (Prince George's County, MD). 75th Anniversary Book Committee. The Riverdale Story: Mansion to Municipality. Riverdale, MD: Town of Riverdale, 1996.

Sarson, Steven James. Wealth, Poverty and Labor in the Tobacco Plantation South: Prince George's County, Maryland, in the Early National Era. Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1998.

Sechrist, Stephanie. Silver Spring, Maryland: Residential Development of a Washington Suburb, 1920 to 1955. M.A. Thesis, George Washington University, 1994.
Notes: Many suburban communities had origins in streetcar or railroad growth. Silver Spring, however, was a community whose growth was determined by the automobile. Sechrist identifies three development stages. Also, as a suburb of the District of Columbia, Silver Spring grew during periods of strife for other communities, i.e. during the Depression and World War II.

Sherman, Frederick Barreda. "The DeBarreda and DeBarril Families, The House at Drum Point, and the Phantom Railway that Never Was." Calvert Historian 1 (October 1984): 18-28.

Shomette, Donald G. "Incident at Solomons." Bugeye Times 13 (Spring 1988): 3, 6.

Skarda, Donald. A History of Berwyn Heights, MD. Berwyn Heights, MD: Published by the author, 1976.

Skarda, D. D. Berwyn Heights: History of a Small Maryland Town. Published by the author, 1977.

"Solomons: The Cradle of Invasion." Bugeye Times 23 (Summer 1998): 1, 6.

Spencer, Duncan. "The Wisdom of Solomons." Annapolitan 3 (August 1989): 42-46, 48, 50.
Notes: Solomons Island.

Stein, Charles Francis, Jr. The History of Calvert County. Prince Frederick, MD: Calvert County Bicentennial Committee, 1976.

Stout, Harriet M. "Chesapeake Beach: The Act to Incorporate the Town." Calvert Historian 8 (Spring 1993): 38-47.

The Swanpoodle Book: A Walk Through History, Lower Marlboro, Then and Now. Lower Marlboro, MD: Calvert County Public Schools, 1983.

Sweeting, Les. "Who Was Who on Ralston Avenue, Hyattsville." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 21 (April 1994): [2-4].

Thomas, Joseph B., Jr., and Anthony D. Lindauer. "The Town of Herrington, c. 1667-c. 1700." Anne Arundel County History Notes 29 (July 1998): 1-2, 9-12.

Thomas, Joseph B., Jr., and Anthony D. Lindauer. "The Town of Herrington, c.1667-c.1700." Calvert Historian 13 (Spring 1998): 45-61.
Notes: Same article as in <em>Anne Arundel County History Notes</em>.

Tracey, Grace L., and John P. Dern. Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721-1743. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987.
Notes: A history of that portion of Prince George's County that in 1748 became Frederick County as told through the stories of the original land patents and their owners. The appendix includes many handy lists including a list of 1733-1734 inhabitants, early German Settlers, and Frederick County Muster Rolls, ca. 1757.

Van Horn, R. Lee. Out of the Past: Prince Georgians and Their Land 1695-1861. Riverdale, MD: Prince George's County Historical Society, 1976.

Virta, Alan. "'Only Twenty Minutes Ride from Washington.'" News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society , 14 (June 1986): 25-28.
Notes: Huntington.

Virta, Alan. Prince George's County: A Pictorial History. Norfolk, VA: Donning Co., 1984.

Virta, Alan. "Where is Westphalia?" News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 14 (March 1986): 8-12.

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