The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Brewington, M. V. Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes and Bugeyes. Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1963.
Brown, Alexander Crosby. The Old Bay Line, 1840-1940. New York: Bonanza, 1940.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Burgess, Robert H. Chesapeake Circle. Cambridge, MD: Cornell, 1965.
Categories: Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Burgess, Robert H. Chesapeake Sailing Craft. Cambridge, MD: Tidewater, 1975.
Categories: Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Burgess, Robert H. This Was Chesapeake Bay. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1963.
Categories: Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Burgess, Robert H., and H. Graham Wood. Steamboats Out of Baltimore. Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1965.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication
Carmer, Carl. The Susquehanna. New York: Rinehart, 1955.
Notes: One of the prestigious "Rivers of America" series, and for Marylanders a book-end volume to Frederick Gutheim's <em>The Potomac</em>. This is popular history at its best: powerfully-written, anecdotal--and what anecdotes! The story of Thomas Cresap is alone worth checking the book out of the library. Covers the downriver ark traffic and the attempts of steamboats to conquer the rocky and unruly Susquehanna.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Catton, William H. "How Rails Saved a Seaport." American Heritage 8 (1957): 26-31, 93-95.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Catton, William H. John W. Garrett of the Baltimore and Ohio: A Study in Seaport and Railroad Competition, 1820-1874. Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 1959.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Chapelle, Howard I. The Baltimore Clipper. Hatboro, PA: Tradition Press, 1965.
Notes: First published in 1930, this is a classic treatment, with drawings and illustrations, of a famous ship developed on the Chesapeake Bay. The author, one of America's most distinguished naval historians, lived for many years on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
Cudahy, Brian J. Twilight on the Bay: The Excursion Boat Empire of B. B. Wills. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1998.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Davis, A. Vernon. "Eighteen Employees Operate Successful Freight-Carrying Railroad." Cracker Barrel 17 (March 1988): 3-5.
Notes: Maryland Midland Railway.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Washington County
Dohan, Mary Helen. Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat; the First Steamboat to Travel the Mississippi. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1981.
Donnelly, Ralph. "Prize-winning National Pike History." Maryland Cracker Barrel 19 (July 1989): 6-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Washington County
Flexner, James Thomas. Steamboats Come True. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.
Notes: Did James Rumsey <em>really</em> invent the steamboat with his famous voyage in the Potomac River off Shepherdstown, Virginia on December 3, 1787? No. This somewhat disorganized but invigorating rendition of the race to be the steamboat's inventor sets things straight.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Footner, Geoffrey M. Tidewater Triumph: The Development and Worldwide Success of the Chesapeake Bay Pilot Schooner. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1998.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Footner, Hulbert. Rivers of the Eastern Shore: Seventeen Maryland Rivers. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944 (1979).
Notes: Another of the famed "Rivers of America" series and a Maryland classic, illustrated by Baltimore artist Aaron Sopher.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Gray, Ralph D. The National Waterway, a History of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 1769 -1965. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1967 (1985).
Notes: Students of Maryland transportation and maritime development probably would agree that the canal is the most important per mile ever dug in the United States. Experts depend on this volume; lovers of lore may wish to add it to their libraries, said a Maryland Historical Magazine reviewer (84:401, Winter 1989).
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Gutheim, Frederick. The Potomac. Rivers of America Series. New York: Rinehart, 1949.
Notes: The river itself didn't amount to much as an avenue of commerce: shipping found it torturously winding below Washington, D. C. and almost impassable above. The Potomac's real function was as a route to the west used by Maryland's legendary transportation facilities: the National Road, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In another of the Rivers of America series, Gutheim tells the story of the great and historic river as well as it can be told.
Harwood, Herbert H., Jr. Blue Ridge Trolley: The Hagerstown and Frederick Railway. San Marino, CA: Golden Books West, 1970 (reprinted, 1994).
Categories: County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Frederick County, Washington County
Henderson, Richards. Chesapeake Sails: A History of Yachting on the Bay. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1999.
Hollis, Jeffrey R., and Charles S. Roberts. East End: Harpers Ferry to Cumberland, 1842-1992. Baltimore: Barnard Roberts, 1992. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Categories: County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Washington County
Holly, David C. Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1994.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Holly, David C. Steamboat on the Chesapeake: Emma Giles and the Tolchester Line. Centreville: Tidewater, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Chesapeake Region
Holly, David C. Tidewater by Steamboat: A Saga of the Chesapeake, etc. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region