The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Historic Long Green Valley, Baltimore County, Maryland: Architecture - History. Cockeysville, MD: Baltimore County Historical Society, 1981; 3rd printing, 1986.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Baltimore County
Hollifield, William. Difficulties Made Easy: History of the Turnpikes of Baltimore City and County. Baltimore: Baltimore County Historical Society, 1978.
Categories: County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Hollifield, William. "Names of Baltimore County Estates." Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 22 (Summer 1981): 187-93.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Baltimore County
Hollifield, William. "Caroline Felix - Part II; The Later Chapmans." History Trails 16 (Spring 1982): 9-12; 17 (Autumn 1982): 4.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County
Hollifield, William. "Caroline Felix-Part I." History Trails 16 (Winter 1981/82): 5-8.
Notes: Letters of Baltimore County farmer William Chapman, 1831.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County
Jones, Carleton. Lost Baltimore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Notes: A photohistory of buildings no longer standing, arranged by periods.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Jones, Carleton. Streetwise Baltimore: The Story Behind Baltimore Street Names. [Baltimore?]: Bonus Books, 1991.
Notes: Brief, quick descriptions of street and neighborhoods names, including some surrounding communities in other counties. Includes a history of the city's development.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Howard County
Kearney, Mary C. Our Community Called Idlewylde. Baltimore: Idlewylde Community Association, 1989.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore County
Keidel, George C. Colonial History of Catonsville. Edited by Ed H. Parkison. Catonsville, MD: American Bicentennial Committee of Catonsville, 1976.
Categories: County and Local History, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County
Lease, Bonnie. "Relay, The First Sixty Years." History Trails 15 (Summer 1981): 13-16.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore County
McGrain, John W. Bicentennial Festival, History and Heritage: Oella - Its Thread of History. N.p.: Oella Community Improvement Association, May 1976.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Baltimore County, Howard County
McGrain, John W. "The Intense Utilization of Gwynns Falls." History Trails 26 (Autumn 1991-Winter 1991-92): 7-8.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
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
Marks, Bayly Ellen. "The Tax Assessor's Portrait of a County." History Trails 30 (Autumn-Winter 1995-1996): 1-5.
Notes: A study of Baltimore County structures in eight of the County's twelve hundreds, using information gleaned from the 1798 tax assessment. The assessment provides an inventory of structures with exact measurements. Through this early government document it is possible to deduce how people lived.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County
Martin, Percy E. "Sam Arnold and Hookstown." History Trails 16 (Summer 1982): 13-16.
Notes: One of the co-conspirators in the Lincoln assassination.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Military, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Martinak, George J. A Short History of Essex and Middle River. Second printing. N.p., 1963.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
May, Huguette D., and Anthea Smith. Finding the Charm in Charm City: Affectionate Views of Baltimore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Notes: A modern photo documentary, using color Polaris Image Transfers of "charming spots" in Baltimore. These spots may not be considered so charming any place else in the world, but definitely display Baltimore's character. Through these image the authors show buildings, building details, and streetscapes. There is an accompanying text that gives a brief history of neighborhoods, buildings, and roads. A visual documentation of Baltimore in the 1990s.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Merrill, Lucy W. "Gun Road: 'Cannon Track' to Suburb." History Trails 29 (Spring-Summer 1995): 9-16.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Howard County
Mormann, Arthur. A History of Lochearn. Edited by Samuel Poist, George Evans, and Dale Janney. Baltimore: D. Stuart Webb, [1976].
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore County
Muller, H. Reed, Jerome De Ridder, and Alice E. Paterra. "The Furnace Town Phoenix: A Case Study of the Rebirth of an Economic Community." Essays in Economic and Business History 13 (1995): 335-50.
Dundalk-Patapsco Neck Historical Society. The Neck 1672-1937. Dundalk, MD: Dundalk-Patapsco Neck Historical Society, 1973.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore County
Northeast Baltimore County Historical Committee. A Trip into the Past. Rosedale, MD: Rosedale Federal Savings and Loan Association, 1989.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore County
Gunning, Brooke, and Molly O'Donovan. Towson and the Villages of Ruxton and Lutherville. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1999.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore County
Olson, Sherry H. Baltimore. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publisher Company, 1976.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Olson, Sherry H. Baltimore: The Building of an American City. Revised edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Notes: The product of a geographer, this excellent history of Baltimore focuses on its physical growth as an urban center. Special emphasis is placed on how the city, and its inhabitants, handled the changes brought about by city growth.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Baltimore City