Calvert

Swarming ox-carts and cotton wagons, busy stores and saloons, casino tables stacked with gold: this was early Calvert, a major cotton export and trade center. Community began as "Sterling," in Sterling C. Robertson colony of the 1820s. It was center of mustering and military supply activity in Civil War, 1861-1865. When Houston & Texas Central Railroad route was established here, 1868, town was moved 2 mi. to the right of way and renamed for Judge Robert Calvert, pioneer Texan, local landowner, benefactor, and civic leader-- a descendant of Lord Baltimore of Maryland.

Calvert is a historical marker in Calvert, Robertson County, dedicated in 1968. It is one of 63 historical markers documented in Robertson County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 103 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 30.9794, -96.6752 near Calvert. The nearest cataloged historic site is Chinese Farmers (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Citizens Bank & Trust Co. Building, Cobb's Market, and Casimir Drugstore.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5395010905. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.