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GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Maryland

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Maryland Center for History and Culture

Maryland History Timeline

Maryland's Roadside Historical Markers

Midland Roots

OROURKE, CAVANAUGH, FARRELL, McGOWAN families from Midland, Maryland. Also includes information on other MIDLAND families and history.

Oral History Collection

From the Southern Maryland Studies Center at the College of Southern Maryland. These oral histories of 20th century life in Southern Maryland were conducted during the 1970s to the late 1990s.

The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925

Collection includes first-person narratives, early histories, historical biographies, promotional brochures, and books of photographs that capture in words and pictures a distinctive region as it developed between the onset of European settlement and the first quarter of the twentieth century.

Tobacco Inspections

From the Maryland State Archives.