GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Special Sources:

Maryland State Archives contains Land Records, Maps, Plats.

Atlas of Prince George's County, Maryland, Vol 1. Philadelphia: Franklin Survey Co., 1940. Available at FDML, PGCHS. GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Berger, Howard S. Takoma Park Survey. Historic Preservation Section, Planning Dept., M-NCPPC: 1991, Call # 975.25B [20 pp., ill., maps]. Available M-NCPPC, HPCL. GEOGRAPHY & MAPS, TOWNS

Biddle, Rev. John F., O.S.A. Historical Geography of Bladensburg, MD. Washington, D.C.: 1954, [49 pp., dissertation, Catholic University of America]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. TOWNS, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Gahn, Bessie Wilmarth Brown. Original Patentees of Land at Washington Prior to 1700. Privately printed: 1936. Repr. Baltimore, MD: GPC, 1969. Available at PGCGS, MHSL, McKeldin Library-UM, EPFL, PGCML. DEMOGRAPHICS, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Gannett, Henry. A Gazetteer of Maryland and Delaware. 1904, Repr. Baltimore, MD: GPC, 1976; 1979 Repr. PGCGS. Available at MHSL, PGCGS. GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Gazetteer of Maryland - Maryland Geological Survey. Baltimore, MD: Maryland State Planning Comm. and Dept. of Geology, Mines and Water Resources, 1941. [241 pp., Lists alphabetically and gives locations in Maryland of each geographical and political location, such as creeks, coves, islands, mills, towns, hills, landings, villages.] Available at MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch. GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Hartsook, Elizabeth, and Skordas, Gust. Land Office and Prerogative Court Records of Colonial Maryland. Hall of Records Publication #4, 1946; Repr. Baltimore, MD: GPC, 1968, [124 pp., describes types of books Available - rent rolls and debt books, patents, warrants, proprietary leases, and Prerogative Court records.] Available at MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; MHSL; MSA/Hall of Records; PGCHS. DEMOGRAPHICS, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Hienton, Louise Joyner. Prince George's Heritage: Sidelights on the Early History of Prince George's County, MD, From 1696-1800. Maryland Historical Society: 1972, Call # 975.251H, ISBN 0938420135, [223 pp., History of the County from its founding until 1800, incl. maps of tracts laid out prior to 1696]. Available at PGCML, PGCGS. GENERAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Historic Map of Prince George's County. College Park, MD: Maryland Heritage Committee, UM, 1985. [sheet 25" x 38," Locates 76 of the County's Historic Sites - with capsule histories, descriptions and photos.] Available at publicly owned historic sites in the county, M- NCPPC. GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Hopkins, Griffith Morgan. Atlas of Fifteen Miles around Washington, including Prince George's County, Maryland-1878. Riverdale, MD: PGCHS, 1975. CALL # G1273.P7H6, [48 pp., maps, index]. Available at PGCGS, FDML; PGCHS; PGCML. GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Hopkins, Griffith Morgan. Atlas of Prince George's County, MD, 1878. Riverdale, MD: PGCHS, 1975, Call # 912.753H. [48 pp., reprint of an 1878 county atlas showing property owners, index]. Available at FMDL, PGCHS; PGCGS; PGCML. GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Jourdan, Elise Greenup, abstractor. Land Records of Prince George's County, MD, 1702-1709. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1990, Call # 929.3L, [78 pp.]. Available at PGCML, PGCGS. DEMOGRAPHICS, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Jourdan, Elise Greenup. Land Records of Prince George's County, MD, 1710-1717. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1990, Call # 929.3L, [85 pp.]. Available at PGCML, PGCGS. DEMOGRAPHICS, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Jourdan, Elise Greenup, abstractor. Land Records of Prince George's County, MD, 1717-1726. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1991, Call # 929.3L, [128 pp.]. Available at PGCML, PGCGS. DEMOGRAPHICS, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Kaminkow, Marion J. Maryland A to Z: A Topographical Dictionary. Lanham: Maryland Historical Press, 1985, ISBN 0-910946-26-4, 402 pp., [Casebound, towns, counties, collective areas, ghost towns, Maryland's lakes, rivers, mountains, hills, railroads, parks, dams, airports, and institutions, ill., maps.]. Available from publisher. GENERAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS, SITES, TOWNS, TRANSPORTATION

Kellock, Katherine A. Colonial Piscataway in Maryland. Alice Ferguson Foundation: 1962, Call # 975.251K, [Piscataway, 1600-1775, Colonial Period; includes chart of early tracts laid out before April 23, 1696, and genealogy of some early Piscataway families.] Available at PGCML, AFF, PGCGS. FAMILIES, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS, INDIANS, TOWNS

Levy, Anneli Moucka. Washington, D.C. and the Growth of its Early Suburbs: 1860-1920. UM Dept. of Geography: 1980, [Master's Thesis]. Available at the HPCL. GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Martenet's Map of Prince George's County, Maryland, 1861. Repr. Riverdale, MD: PGCHS, 1976, sheet 24" x 33." Available at FDML, PGCHS. GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Maryland Historical Atlas. Maryland Department of State Planning: 1973. Available at the HPCL. GEOGRAPHY & MAPS New Street Names for the Metropolitan Areas of Prince George's County, Maryland: September 1942, Call # 711.409M. Available at PGCML. GEOGRAPHY & MAPS, TRANSPORTATION

Papenfuse, Edward C., and Coale, Joseph M., III. The Hammond-Harwood House Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland 1608-1908. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. [127 pp.] Available at Hammond-Harwood House, 19 Maryland Ave., Annapolis, MD 21401, and MSA/Hall of Records. GEOGRAPHY & MAPS, HOUSES

Richardson, Hester Dorsey. Side-Lights on Maryland History. Baltimore, MD: Williams and Wilkins, 1913. Reprint Baltimore, MD: Tidewater, 1967. [Vol. I, 500 pp., Vol. II, 564 pp., Includes Lords of the Manor, Maryland Colonial Militia, names of 1,000 settlers of Maryland and their earliest land surveys. Vol. II has much on early families.] Available at MHSL; PGCHS; MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; MSL. FAMILIES, GENERAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS, MILITARY.

Rimmer, James S. The History of Land Subdivision Development in Prince George's County, MD, Adjacent to the National Capital: May 3, 1935. [Unpublished paper-Tau Beta Pi]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Rollo, Vera Foster, Ph.D. Maryland Today: A Geography. Lanham: Maryland Historical Press, 1988, ISBN 0-917882-37-7, [188 pp., casebound, landforms, agriculture, climate and much information about each county, puzzles, activities, Grade 4 level, ill., photographs] Teacher's Guide available in paperback. Available from publisher. GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Van Horn, R. Lee. Out of the Past; Prince Georgians and their Land. Riverdale, MD: PGCHS, 1976, Call # 975.251V. [422 pp., Chronological account of events in the county's history through 1861, taken mainly from legal and government records and from newspaper reports. Includes S.J. Martenet's 1861 map of the county, bibliography]. Available at PGCHS, PGCML, PGCGS. GENERAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Wilcox, Shirley Langdon, ed. Land Records of Prince George's County, Vol. A, 1696-1702: 1976. Call # 929.3. Available at the PGCGS, PGCML. DEMOGRAPHICS, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

Wilson, Richard and Bridner, Jack. Maryland: Its Past and Present. Lanham: Maryland Historical Press, 1992, ISBN 0-917882-34-2. [234 pp., Casebound, Updated and Revised with Data at the 1990 Census and other Sources, Maryland History, Geography and Government. Fourth- grade level. Illustration and graphics.] Available from publisher. GENERAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

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