The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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
Riverdale (Prince George's County, MD). 75th Anniversary Book Committee. The Riverdale Story: Mansion to Municipality. Riverdale, MD: Town of Riverdale, 1996.
Categories: County and Local History, Prince George's County
Roth, Hal. You Can't Never Get to Puckum: Folks and Tales from Delmarva. Vienna, MD: Nanticoke Books, 1997.
Categories: County and Local History, Chesapeake Region
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.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Eighteenth Century, Prince George's County
Sayles, Tim. "The Immutable Smith Island." Mid-Atlantic Country 10 (February 1989): 28-33, 90.
Categories: County and Local History, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Schultz, Edward Thomas. First Settlements of Germans in Maryland. 1896; reprint, Miami: R. T. Gross, 1976.
Categories: County and Local History, Ethnic History, Chesapeake Region
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.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Prince George's County
Sheehan, K. "Order and Disorder on Smith Island." Raritan 14 (Fall 1994): 109-34.
Categories: County and Local History, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Sioussat, Annie Leakin. Old Manors in the Colony of Maryland. Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1911.
Categories: County and Local History, Chesapeake Region
Skarda, Donald. A History of Berwyn Heights, MD. Berwyn Heights, MD: Published by the author, 1976.
Categories: County and Local History, Prince George's County
Skarda, D. D. Berwyn Heights: History of a Small Maryland Town. Published by the author, 1977.
Categories: County and Local History, Prince George's County
Slatick, Eugene R. "Maryland's Rivers - Something Special." Maryland Conservationist 52 (March/April 1977): 14-19.
Categories: County and Local History, Chesapeake Region
Speed, Bettye. "Bloody Point and its Legends." Isle of Kent (Summer 1990): 196-97.
Stinson, Ann. Hoopers Island: Today and Many Yesterdays; A Brief History of Hooper's Island Compiled from the Written and Oral Accounts of the People Who Have Lived There. Easton, MD: Easton Publishing Co., 1975.
Categories: County and Local History, Dorchester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
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].
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Szabo, Steve. The Eastern Shore. Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1976.
Notes: Photographic essay.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Thomas, Joseph Brown, Jr. Settlement, Community, and Economy: The Development of Towns in Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore, 1660-1775. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1994.
Notes: Thomas argues that the seventeen clustered settlements that dotted the lower Eastern Shore actually functioned as towns. Although legislatively established they have been largely ignored in the history of the Chesapeake region. Most historians argue that the area was rural, when in fact its character was between urban and rural.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Dorchester County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Torrusio, Michael, Jr. "Hoopers Island, This Way." Annapolis Quarterly (Fall 1997): 55-63, 135.
Categories: County and Local History, Dorchester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
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.
Categories: County and Local History, Ethnic History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Frederick County, Prince George's County
Van Horn, R. Lee. Out of the Past: Prince Georgians and Their Land 1695-1861. Riverdale, MD: Prince George's County Historical Society, 1976.
Categories: County and Local History, Prince George's County
Veitch, Fletcher. "Hurricane of 1933." Chronicles of St. Mary's 33 (August 1985): 285-288.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Environment, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
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.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Virta, Alan. Prince George's County: A Pictorial History. Norfolk, VA: Donning Co., 1984.
Categories: County and Local History, Prince George's County
Virta, Alan. "Where is Westphalia?" News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 14 (March 1986): 8-12.
Categories: County and Local History, Prince George's County
Walton, John M., Jr. "Bladensburg Celebrates a Milestone." Passport to the Past 3 (July/August 1992): 2.
Categories: County and Local History, Prince George's County