Author: Brantz MayerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland Historical Society
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
History, Possessions and Prospects of the Maryland Historical Society
Author: Brantz MayerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland Historical Society
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America
Author: Peter ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters
Author: John Gottlieb MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Fund Publication
Author: Maryland Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus
Author: Henry FoleyRelation of the Colony of the Lord Baron of Baltimore, in Maryland, Near Virginia
Author: Andrew WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Records of the English province of the Society of Jesus ... in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Author: Henry FoleyRelatio Itineris in Marylandiam
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368813803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Relatio Itineris in Marylandiam
Author: Andrew WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
History of Western Maryland
Author: J. Thomas ScharfPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849658643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
The preparation of "History of Western Maryland", one of the most voluminous works on the history of that party of the United States, imposed a vast responsibility and an immense amount of labor. In the compilation of this history no authority of importance has been overlooked. The author has carefully examined every source of information open to him, and has availed himself of every fact that could throw new light upon, or impart additional interest to, the subject under consideration. Besides consulting the most reliable records and authorities, over fifteen thousand communications were addressed to persons supposed to be in possession of facts or information calculated to add value to the work. Recourse has not only been had to the valuable libraries of Baltimore, Annapolis, Frederick, and Hagerstown, but the author and his agents have visited personally the entire territory embraced in the six counties of Western Maryland, spending much time in each district, examining ancient newspapers, musty manuscripts, family, church, and society records, conversing with the aged inhabitants, and collecting from them orally many interesting facts never before published, and which otherwise, in all probability, would soon have been lost altogether. In addition to the material partly used in the preparation of his " Chronicles" and " History of Baltimore City and County" and " History of Maryland," the author has consulted an immense number of pamphlets, consisting of county and town documents, reports of societies, associations, corporations, and historical discourses, and, in short, everything of a fugitive character that might in any way illustrate the history of Western Maryland. Sketches of the rise, progress, and present condition of the various religious denominations, professions, political parties, and charitable and benevolent institutions, societies, and orders form a conspicuous feature of the work. Manufacturing, commercial, and agricultural interests have also a prominent place. An account of the county school system is also given, and a history of the various institutions of learning of which Western Maryland has every reason to be proud. Many of the facts recorded, both statistical and historical, may seem trivial or tediously minute to the general reader, and yet such facts have a local interest and sometimes a real importance. Considerable space has also been given to biographies of leading and representative men, living and dead, who have borne an active part in the various enterprises of life, and who have become closely identified with the history of Frederick, Washington, Montgomery, Allegany, Carroll, and Garrett Counties. The achievements of the living must not be forgotten, nor must the memories of those who have passed away be allowed to perish. It is the imperative duty of the historian to chronicle their public and private efforts to advance the great interests of society. Their deeds are to be recorded for the benefit of those who follow them; they, in fact, form part of the history of their communities, and their successful lives add to the glory of the Commonwealth. A distinguishing feature of the work is its statistics of the various districts into which the six counties of Western Maryland are divided. In them the reader is brought into close relation with every part of Western Maryland. This is volume one out of six, covering the time from the first settlers to the Civil War.