The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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
Dohan, Mary Helen. Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat; the First Steamboat to Travel the Mississippi. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1981.
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.
Henderson, Richards. Chesapeake Sails: A History of Yachting on the Bay. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1999.
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
Latrobe, John H. B. A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat. Fund Publication No. 5. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1871.
Notes: Benjamin H. Latrobe's and Nicholas J. Roosevelt's less than successful partnership with Robert Fulton and Robert R. Livingstone to build steamboats in Pittsburgh is the subject of this account by one of Latrobe's sons. The builders' intent was to monopolize the steamboat trade of the western rivers; their initial effort was the <em>New Orleans</em>.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Latrobe, John H. B. The First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters. Fund Publication No. 6. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1871.
Notes: The vivid story of the first steamboat trip down the Mississippi River conducted by Nicholas H. Roosevelt, builder of the <em>New Orleans</em>, and his wife Lydia, daughter of architect Benjamin H. Latrobe. The earthquakes of 1811, the most powerful ever recorded in North America, were among the natural phenomena encountered by the crew (See Dohan, Mary Helen).
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Maritime, Transportation and Communication
McCloud, Melissa. "Tilghman Bridge, Tilghman Memories." Weather Gauge 34 (Fall 1998): 11-15.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Talbot County
Mueller, Edward A. The Queen of Sea Routes: Merchants & Miners Transportation Company. Steamship Historical Society, 2000.
Radoff, Morris L. The Old Line State. Annapolis, MD: Hall of Records Comm., 1971.
Notes: Has a chapter on "Shipbuilding in Maryland," by Marion V. Brewington.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Chesapeake Region
Shomette, Donald G. Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay, and Other Tales of the Lost Chesapeake. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1996.
Notes: Underwater archaeology.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Maritime, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Charles County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland
Shomette, Donald G. Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake : maritime disasters on Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, 1608-1978. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1982.
Smith, Melbourne. Sailing Vessels of the Chesapeake; nine original lithographed prints. Annapolis, MD: Admiralty Publishing House, 1973.
Snediker, Quentin, and Ann Jensen. Chesapeake Bay Schooners. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1992.
Tilp, Frederick. The Chesapeake Bay of Yore: Mainly about the Rowing and Sailing Craft. Annapolis, MD: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 1982.
Vojtech, Pat. Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1993.
Wood, H. Graham. "Baltimore Steamboats." Steamboat Bill 49 (Fall 1992): 173-80.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore City
Wood, H. Graham. "Fredericksburg to Baltimore: Ninety Miles by Air, Two Days and Two Nights on Different Steamers." Steamboat Bill 188 (Winter 1988): 278-82.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication