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The Patapsco : Baltimore's river of history
2016
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Long the main resource on this key American river, this book’s expanded second edition includes dozens of new photos and maps, updates, and six new chapters recording the twenty-first century’s most recent developments on the Patapsco River. Along with insightful narration of its impact on its watershed and on Baltimore in particular, the book contains the entire recorded history of the Patapsco River. It moves fromthe early Native American camps on its shores, through the late twentieth-centuryrevitalization of its harbor, and to the environmental and economic changes the Patapsco has been a part of during these first decades of the twenty-first century. The Patapsco’s story contains some of the mostimportant and fascinating events of Maryland’s past, and this book allows the reader to dip at will into the excitingand unexpected blend of people, places, and events that have had such great impact onthe state of Maryland and the nation. - (Schiffer Pub)

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Foreword ix
Preface xii
1 A Diverse Natural Resource
3(13)
2 Children of the Sun: The Piscataway and Susquehannock Indians
16(10)
3 A Port and Its Forts
26(22)
4 Crossroads of the American Revolution: Elkridge
48(9)
5 The River Valley Comes of Age: Ellicott's Mills
57(14)
6 Mills along the Patapsco: Avalon, Orange Grove, Ilchester, Gray's Mill, Oella, Granite, and Daniels
71(21)
7 River Communities: Relay, Woodstock, Granite, Sykesville, and Mount Airy
92(18)
8 First Threads in the Magic Carpet of Steel: The B&O Railroad
110(12)
9 Blue and Gray Clouds over the Water: The Civil War
122(11)
10 Hell and High Water: The Floods of 1868 and 1972
133(12)
11 Harnessing the Force and Fury: River Dams
145(5)
12 A New Deal for the Nation's Human and Natural Resources: The CCC and the COs
150(7)
13 Preserving the Legacy: Prescription for the Future
157(7)
14 A Tired and Troubled Tributary
164(18)
15 All That Glitters - The Gold Rush
182(15)
16 A "Green" Port Report
197(8)
17 Guardians of the Patapsco
205(6)
18 The Reign of King Steel
211(9)
19 Patapsco 21
220(19)
Bibliography 239(10)
Index 249

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