The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Jopp, Harold D. Rediscovery of the Eastern Shore: Delmarva Travelogues of the 1870s. Wye Mills, MD: Chesapeake College Press, 1986.
Notes: Reprints of articles by four different authors which appeared in the leading nineteenth century publications of <em>Harper's New Monthly Magazine</em>, <em>Lippincott's Magazine</em>, and <em>Scribner's Monthly</em>. The authors included noted illustrator Howard Pyle and Maryland writer George Townsend.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Kelbaugh, Jack. "Shipley's Choice: A Community Name with Historical Significance; Part I: The Shipley Clan." Anne Arundel County History Notes 20 (January 1989): 3-5.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Carroll County, Howard County
Kelbaugh, Jack. "The Shipley's Choice Tract; Part II: More Than Three Centuries of Fascinating History." Anne Arundel County History Notes 20 (April 1989): 1-3.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Native American, Transportation and Communication, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Kraus, Walter L. "Belle Chance at Andrews Air Force Base: A Piece of Maryland's Past." Maryland Historical Magazine 83 (Fall 1988): 268-73.
Notes: Kraus argues that Andrews has the most historic setting of any airforce base in the country. He then goes on to discuss the history of the ownership of the land and the history of Belle Chance, a house on base.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Military, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Long, Helen R. Index for the Carroll County Section of Scharf's History of Western Maryland, Volume 2. Topeka, KS: Copy Center, 1989.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Carroll County
Long, Helen R. Index for the Frederick County Section of Scharf's History of Western Maryland, Volume 1. Manhattan, KS: ADR, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Long, Helen R. Index for the Garrett County Section of Scharf's History of Western Maryland, Volume 2. Topeka, KS: Copy Center, 1988.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County
Long, Helen R. Index for the Montgomery County Section of Scharf's History of Western Maryland, Volume 1. Topeka, KS: Copy Center, 1988.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Long, Helen R. Index for the Washington County Section of Scharf's History of Western Maryland, Volume 2. Manhattan, KS: Privately published, 1984.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Washington 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
Mackie, Norman Vardney, III. "Gravestone Procurement in St. Mary's County, 1634-1820." Maryland Historical Magazine 83 (Fall 1988): 229-40.
Notes: Thirteen cemeteries were evaluated in this study which demonstrates the socio-economic data that can be compiled from the use and construction type of gravestones. The raw materials of the stones, their style, and the distribution of the stones can all be evaluated and the economic condition of the time deduced. For example, as more prosperous wheat growing farmers populated the area more money was spent on permanent markers. Also, as sandstone became available in the county more tombstone carvers were able to work in the area.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Marks, Lillian Bayly. Reister's Desire: The Origin of Reisterstown, Maryland, Founded 1758, With a Genealogical History of the Reister Family and Sketches of Allied Families. N.p.: Published by the author, 1975.
Notes: A history of the early development of today's Reisterstown as documented primarily through land records. The largest portion of this work is dedicated to the genealogy of the Reister, and allied, families.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Carroll County
Memories of Choptank 1679-1930. [Choptank Bicentennial Commission, 1976].
Categories: County and Local History, Caroline County, Eastern Shore
Moore, Dick. "Our Little Town of Bethlehem." Maryland 21 (Winter 1988): 35.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Caroline County, Eastern Shore
"The Mystery of Historic St. Mary's City." Southern Living 25 (August 1990): 18-19.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Seventeenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
"Notes on the Origin of Garrett County, MD." Glades Star 5 (September 1977): 27-29.
Papenfuse, Edward C. "What's in a Name? Why Should We Remember?" News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 24 (June/July 1996): 1-5.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Prince George's County
Papenfuse, Edward C. Doing Good to Posterity-The Move of the Capital of Maryland from St. Mary's City to Ann Arundell Towne, now called Annapolis. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical Trust Press, 1995.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Anne Arundel County, St. Mary's County
Pogue, Dennis J. "Calverton, Calvert County, Maryland, 1668-1725." Calvert Historian 9 (Spring 1994): 68-79.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Calvert County
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.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Calvert County
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.
Categories: Agriculture, Archaeology, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Seventeenth Century, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, Southern Maryland
Power, Garrett. Parceling Out Land in Baltimore, 1632-1796. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1994.
Notes: Reprints of two <em>Maryland Historical Magazine</em> articles with the same title. Using a variety of sources, both primary and secondary, Power traces the chain of title, up to the point of incorporation, of the 2000 acres of Baltimore Town, Jones Town, and Fell's Point, the communities that became Baltimore City.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City
Power, Garrett. "Parceling out Land in the Vicinity of Baltimore: 1632-1796, Part 1." Maryland Historical Magazine 87 (Winter 1992): 453-466.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City
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.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Nineteenth Century, 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
Richardson, Hester Dorsey. "Colors of the Counties." Calvert Historian 8 (Fall 1993): 50-52.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Seventeenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Kent County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore