Calvert County Local Guide

Get to Know Calvert County

Whether your home is in Prince Frederick, Huntingtown, Lusby, Solomons, or the beach communities, services can change from one address to the next. Start with your property record, then confirm the agencies and providers responsible for your home.

Drum Point Lighthouse on iron pilings beside the water at Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland. — Drum Point Lighthouse at Calvert Marine Museum (official website, opens in a new tab)Photo: Carol M. Highsmith

Old county, much older landscape. Calvert County was formed in 1654, but its human story reaches back thousands of years before English settlement. The county’s history overview (opens in a new tab) introduces that deeper past, including Native communities along the waterways.

Shark teeth tell a local story. The fossils at Calvert Cliffs come from the Miocene epoch, which lasted roughly 23 to 5.3 million years ago. Shells, shark teeth, and whale remains preserve clues to a very different coast. The Calvert Marine Museum’s paleontology exhibits (opens in a new tab) explain how those discoveries fit into the region’s natural history.

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