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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Peden, Henry C., Jr. "Harford County Place Names, Past and Present, Their Location, Origin and Meaning, Part I: A-J." Harford Historical Bulletin 78 (Fall 1998): 3-52.

Pogue, Dennis J. "Calverton, Calvert County, Maryland, 1668-1725." Calvert Historian 9 (Spring 1994): 68-79.

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.

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.

Power, Garrett. "Parceling out Land in the Vicinity of Baltimore: 1632-1796, Part 1." Maryland Historical Magazine 87 (Winter 1992): 453-466.

Power, Garrett. "Parceling out Land in the Vicinity of Baltimore: 1632-1796, Part 2." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Summer 1993): 150-80.

Pugh, Dorothy. "Ghost Stories of Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 31 (November 1988): 35-46.

Randolph, B. S. "History of the Maryland Coal Region." Journal of the Alleghenies 29 (1993): 47-62.
Notes: Originally published by the Maryland Geological Survey, in 1905, this work discusses the development of Allegany County's mining industry, including the unionization of the miners.

Reber, James Q., and Austin H. Kiplinger. Portrait in Time: A Photographic Profile of Montgomery County, Maryland. Rockville: Montgomery County Bicentennial Commission, 1976.

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.

"Rich in History, A Sense of Community." Maryland 27 (September/October 1995): [110].
Notes: Gaithersburg.

Robbins, Charles L. "Seventeenth Century Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin 62 (Fall 1994): 159-74.

"A Rockville Journal." The Montgomery County Story 28 (May 1985): 155-165; (July/August 1985): 166-181.

Russo, Jean B. "The Early Towns of Montgomery County, 1747-1831." Montgomery County Story 34 (May 1991): 153-64.
Notes: Montgomery County towns developed slow and were crossroad communities that served the County's agricultural community. The early towns were scattered across the county. They were not focussed on the southern boundary line as was common during the late twentieth century. Rockville, the county seat, remained in the shadow of the more cosmopolitan Georgetown into the mid-19th century.

Sagle, Lawrence. "Beautiful Hills of Garrett." Glades Star 5 (September 1977): 37, 40-41.

Shank, Ellsworth B. "Origin of the Street Names of Havre de Grace." Harford Historical Bulletin (Spring 1985): 27-32.

Simmons, James R. "Natural History of Harford County, Maryland." Harford Historical Bulletin 62 (Fall 1994): 143-58.

Smith, Mary Beth. "Let Us Entertain You." Maryland 27 (September/October 1995): [111].

Smith, Mary Beth. "What Makes Gaithersburg Great." Maryland 27 (September/October 1995): [106-107].

Strauss, Mary. "Engle's Mill ... A Necessity of the Past." Glades Star 5 (June 1979): 159-63.

Sugarloaf Regional Trails (Project). Inventory of Historical Sites in Western Montgomery and Frederick Counties, Maryland. Dickerson, MD: Sugarloaf Regional Trails, 1975.

Sween, Jane C. Montgomery County: Two Centuries of Change. Woodland Hills, CA: Windsor Publications, Inc., 1984.

Sween, Jane C., and William Offutt. Montgomery County: Centuries of Change. Sun Valley, CA: American Historical Press, 1999.
Notes: An illustrated history, using a variety of genre, arranged largely chronologically. Included is a chapter of brief histories of the County's towns. The chapter "Chronicles of Leadership" provides one to three pages histories of the businesses and organizations who sponsored the book's publication. Excellent bibliography and a four page time line of the county's history.

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