Calvert

Sunderland, MD

All Saints Episcopal Church All Saints, one of the original parishes of Maryland, included all of the land north of Hunting Creek in...

Solomons, MD

Amphibious Training Base This Nation's first naval amphibious training base was established here at Solomons where between 1942 and 1945...

Prince Frederick, MD

Arthur Storer Planetarium Arthur Storer (c. 1642 - 1686), the first astronomer in the American Colonies, came to Calvert County from...

Bowens (vicinity), MD

Battle Creek Cyprus Swamp A bald Cyprus reserve and an amphibian sanctuary.

St. Leonard, MD

Brewhouse surveyed 1651 51/2 miles Mackall's Landing Birthplace of Thomas Johnson (1732-1819).

Chaneyville, MD

Calvert County Established as Patuxent County in 1654, it was given Lord Baltimore's family name in 1658.

Chesapeake Beach, MD

Chesapeake Beach Railway 1897-1935 Built by Otto Mears of Colorado in 1897, the train track linking Washington, D.C. to Chesapeake Beach...

Solomons, MD

Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Founded by R.V. Truitt, 1925.

Port Republic, MD

Christ Church (Episcopal) 1672 One of the original parishes of the Province of Maryland and Calvert County's oldest continuously...

Lusby, MD

Cove Point Lighthouse 3.4 miles Built in 1828, the oldest operating lighthouse in Maryland.

Solomons, MD

Drum Point Lighthouse 1883-1962 This lighthouse, installed in 1883, originally stood 125 yards offshore at the entrance of the Patuxent...

Sunderland, MD

Harriett Elizabeth Brown During the period of racially segregated education, elementary school teacher Brown enlisted the N.A.A.C.P. and...

Solomons, MD

J.C. Lore & Sons Oyster House Joseph C. Lore, Sr., began shipping seafood from Solomons Island in 1888 and established a packing house at...

Lower Marlboro, MD

Lower Marlboro Town Originally Cox Town, named for early settlers Thomas and Henry Cox (1663).

Solomons, MD

M.M. Davis Shipyard 1885-1974 1885 Marcellus M. Davis established his shipyard at this location.

Lusby, MD

Middleham Chapel Founded, 1684, as a chapel of ease in Christ Church Parish and named for Middleham, Yorkshire, England.

Lusby, MD

Morgan Hill Farm The tract, originally known as Morgan's Fresh, was granted, 1651, to Philip Morgan, a captain in the Puritan militia.

Prince Frederick, MD

ca. 1880-1934 Oldest standing one-room schoolhouse for African American students in Calvert County.

Lusby, MD

Preston Cliffs or Charles Gift Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, on March 10, 1658, issued a grant of 1000 acres on the west side of...

Lusby, MD

Preston on Patuxent Home of Richard Preston Commander of the North Bank of the Patuxent River 1649.

Prince Frederick, MD

Prince Frederick Library "Firsts" The west wing of this library was built in 1903 on Main Street as the County's first bank.

Prince Frederick, MD

Joseph & James Wilkinson Two Revolutionary leaders who grew up on farm south of Hunting Creek Joseph Wilkinson was Colonel in the...

Dunkirk, MD

Smithville United Methodist Church The brick church, dedicated in 1840, is the oldest standing Methodist Church in Calvert County.

Solomons, MD

Solomon's Island Originally called Bourne's (1680), then Somervell's Island (1740).

St. Leonard, MD

St. Leonard Creek Scene of Naval Battles During War of 1812 In June 1814, Maryland's Commodore Joshua Barney commanded American flotilla...

Lusby (vicinity), MD

The Cliffs of Calvert First described in 1608 by Captain John Smith and marked on his map.

Mutual, MD

Veitch's Cove James Veitch, born 1628 in Roxburghshire, Scotland.

Prince Frederick, MD

W. S. Brooks High School The first public high school for African Americans in Calvert County was opened in 1938 and served until...