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Calvert County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland.As of the 2020 census, the population was 92,783. [1] Its county seat is Prince Frederick. [2] The county's name is derived from the family name of the Barons of Baltimore, the proprietors of the English Colony of Maryland.
272 slaves from across Maryland, including the Southern Maryland counties of Charles, St. Mary's, and Prince George's, were sold during the 1838 Jesuit slave sale to two planters in Louisiana. [35] A notable abolitionist from southern Maryland was Josiah Henson, a slave who was born in Charles County before escaping to Canada.
Calvert County: 009: Prince Frederick: 1654: Formed as Patuxent County from unorganized territory. Renamed Calvert County in 1658: The Calvert family; prior to 1658 it was called Patuxent County, after the Patuxent Indians, a branch of the Algonquians: 94,728: 345 sq mi (894 km 2) Caroline County: 011: Denton: 1773: From parts of Dorchester ...
Solomons, also known as Solomons Island, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Calvert County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,368 at the 2010 census, [2] up from 1,536 in 2000. Solomons is a popular weekend destination spot in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.
Location of Calvert County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Calvert County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Calvert County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
Long Beach is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Calvert County, Maryland, United States. Its population was 1,821 as of the 2010 census. [3] Prior to 2010, the community was part of the Calvert Beach-Long Beach CDP.
The Calvert Peninsula is part of the Western Shore region of the U.S. state of Maryland. It extends about 25 miles (40 km) into Chesapeake Bay with the main bay providing its eastern border and the Patuxent River defining its western border. [1] It constitutes a total land area of about 350 square miles (910 km 2) and is essentially ...
Maidstone is an old southern Maryland plantation located in Owings, Calvert County, Maryland.The oldest extant part of the house was built in 1751 by a yeoman planter, Lewis Lewin on or near the site of an earlier wood structure., [2] though a brick in one of the chimneys is dated 1678.