Courthouse at Battle Town-Calvertown Calvert County was erected
by an order in Council of July 3, 1654. The order set the
boundaries of the new county and named the sheriff, but it said
nothing about the seat of local government.1 Subsequent loss of
all the county records has prevented the discovery of the
earliest county seat, if indeed there was a fixed place of
government. Scisco believes that in all probability the county
court was itinerant at first, following a pattern common to many
of the early Maryland Counties. The same author found that a
courthouse was referred to in 1669 at Battle Town on the north
shore of Battle Creek.2 All that we know of this courthouse is
the little contained in a legislative report of March 23,
1697/98, as follows: The records of Calvert County are kept in a
very good Court house and distance enough from any other houses
in which no ordinaryes are Kept nor is there any The name of
this town was changed to Calvertown in 1683. Several attempts
were made during the first quart