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Welcome
to Maryland American
History and Genealogy Project
we are in the process of
building new State and County pages for the states where
the coordinator has moved on to other projects. Calvert County is looking for a new Coordinator would you
be interested? If so please contact
Webmaster.
Many of the present coordinators are always willing to give help and
suggestions to newcomers, you can learn, I did and that was after 60!!
Read our
About Page and see what our requirements are,
pretty easy!
Court House at
Fredericktown
Calvert County has 222 square miles of territory, and is
the smallest in the State. It dates back to 1654 and
preserves the family name of the Proprietary. The
Patuxent curves around the southern and western sides of
the county, and its eastern line is washed by the
Chesapeake. The bayside is marked by highlands, and the
"Cliffs of Calvert" attract much attention among
students of geology and physiography. The soil is
productive and divided between sandy and clay loams.
Tobacco and cereals are the chief crops, and a
considerable number of the people are interested in
fisheries. The oyster grounds of Calvert are among the
best in the State. Timber is plentiful, and iron ores
and silica are found in extensive deposits. Drum Point,
at the mouth of the Patuxent, has one of the finest
harbors in the United States, and in time may become the
location of a vast Federal or commercial maritime
enterprise. Fruits and vegetables mature early on the
sheltered lands, with southern exposure, along the
waterways.
The county seat is Prince Fredericktown, which is
centrally located, and, like other Calvert towns, is
small in population. Solomon's, in the southern part of
the county, 26 miles from Prince Fredericktown, has a
marine railway and shipyards, and Sollers', on St.
Leonard's Creek, St. Leonard's, Chaneyville, Lower
Marlboro, Drum Point, Huntingtown, Plum Point are among
the villages of the county. In the colonial and early
State history of Maryland Calvert was conspicuous. The
first railroad to enter the county is the Chesapeake
Beach, which was built from Hyattsville, near
Washington, to the Bay a few years ago, and runs for a
short distance through the upper part of Calvert.
A large portion of the population is colored. Among
noteworthy sons of the county were General James
Wilkinson and Rev. Mason Weems ("Parson Weems"), the
once popular biographer, who pointed a moral with his
celebrated myth of little George Washington, his
hatchet, and his father's cherry tree.
Online Here or Other Sites
Maryland
AHGP
Source: History of Maryland, by
L. Magruder Passano, Wm. J.C. Dulany Company, 1901.
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