The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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
Ford, G. D. "West to the Other Maryland." Southern Living 27 (October 1992): 78-81.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication
Foster, Coria Bacon. "Early Chapters in the Development of the Potomac Route to the West. Parts 1 and 2." Records of the Columbia Historical Society 15 (1912): 96-299.
Notes: An exhaustive and engaging account of the commercial attempts to develop the Potomac River, from the Ohio Company ca. 1750 to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, 1827.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Franklin, William M. "The Tidewater End of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Winter 1986): 288-304.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Friedenberg, Robert V. "John A. J. Creswell of Maryland: Reformer in the Post Office." Maryland Historical Magazine 64 (1969): 133-143.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Fuerst, Bob. "Riverdale's Industrial Evolution." Riverdale Town Crier 22 (June/July 1992): 7.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Gallagher, J. P., and Jacques Kelly. Trackside Maryland From Railyard to Mainline. Sykesville, MD: Greenberg Publishing Co., 1992.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Garrett, Jerre. "The Automobile in Cecil County." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 64 (April 1993): 1, 3-4.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Cecil County
Garrett, Jerre. "The Elkton, Andora and Lewisville Plank Road Company." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 60 (December 1991): 1, 3.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Cecil County
Garrett, Jerre. "An Important Era in Rising Sun: The Railroad Arrives." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 63 (December 1992): 1, 3-4.
Gasque, James. "Mail - Germany to Baltimore - by Submarine." Baltimore Sun Magazine, 31 August 1975, 9ff.
Notes: 1916
Gay, Gordon. "Wayside History: Exploring the C&O Canal." History News 52 (Autumn 1997): 15-19.
Categories: County and Local History, Transportation and Communication
Gerstner, Franz Anton Ritter von. Early American Railroads. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Notes: Von Gerstner, an Austrian engineer, spent two years studying railroads and canals in the United States. His monumental two-volume work, with its wealth of technological and general information and magnificent illustrations, was published posthumously in 1843. This is the first English translation. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad figures prominently in the account.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Ghega, Carl von. The Baltimore--Ohio Railroad over the Alleghany Mountain Range, etc. Wien, Kaulfuss, Witwe, Pranke and Comp.:1844.
Notes: In German, but portions have been translated. The superb illustrations, of early locomotives, bridges, etc., have appeared in many railroad histories.
Gibb, James G. "Railroad Ghosts." Calvert Historian 11 (Spring 1996): 62-70.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Calvert County
Gibb, James G., and Paula F. Mask. "A Road Without Rails: The Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad, 1868-1891." Calvert Historian 5 (Fall 1990): 27-40.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County
Gillespie, C. Richard. The James Adams Floating Theater. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1991.
Notes: Showboat! The actual Chesapeake Bay steamboat on which the Edna Ferber novel was based.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication
Goodrich, Carter. Government Promotion of American Canals and Railroads, 1800-1890. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.
Notes: Maryland's National Road, C&O Canal, and B&O Railroad are covered in this excellent treatment of public support of 19th century internal improvements.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Grant, John. "Finding the Old New Germany Post Office." Glades Star 8 (June 1996): 63-67, 59.
Grant, John A. "Flashing Signs on National Pike." Glades Star 7 (September 1994): 451.
Categories: Transportation and Communication, Garrett County
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
"Great Crossings Reappears-Briefly." Glades Star 9 (March 1999): 26-27.
Categories: Transportation and Communication, Garrett County
Grimsley, George P. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. N. p. 1933.
Notes: The author, a geologist, takes the reader through the country--coastal plain, Blue Ridge, Appalachian valley and plateau, and interior plains--traversed by the railroad.
Gunnarson, Robert L. The Story of the North Central Railway: From Baltimore to Lake Ontario. Sykesville, MD: Greenberg Publishing Co., 1991.
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.