DM: Boyd's Business Directory of Maryland, 1875 - Washington County, MD

Digital Maryland Collection

The 1875 edition of Boyd's Business Directory of the State of Maryland lists the occupations and businesses in the five largest cities in Maryland--Annapolis, Baltimore, Cumberland, Frederick, and Hagerstown--and all the smaller towns.

Directories were precursors to modern-day phonebooks and contain the names of each adult resident in the town along with their occupation and home address. But business directories such as the 1875 Boyd's Business Directory of the State of Maryland also list the occupations and businesses throughout the state, even in small towns and villages.