Calvert Village

Calvert Village began with a 40-acre grant from William Penn in 1701, on which the present East Nottingham Friends Meeting House was built in 1724, with a stone addition completed in 1752. The meeting house was used as an American army hospital in 1778. Cross Keys Tavern, built in 1744, stood midway on the Old Baltimore-Philadelphia Pike. Before the post office adopted the present name in 1878, the village was known as East Nottingham, Brick Meeting House, and The Brick. Lafayette’s Army camped in the woods here on April 12, 1781. A white oak at the old crossroads was ring-dated by the Maryland Forest Service to about 1661.

Maryland · United States