There are many locations in
Maryland named after the Barons Baltimore ("Lords Baltimore"), including
Baltimore County,
Baltimore City,
Calvert County,
Cecil County,
Charles County,
Frederick County,
Leonardtown,
St. Leonard, and
Calvert Cliffs. There are also
Charles Street and Calvert Street in
Baltimore.
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore is the namesake of
Cecil County, Maryland, Cecil Avenue, Cecil Elementary School and
Calvert Street in Baltimore, along with another Calvert Street (alley) in
Brooklyn (a South Baltimore city neighbourhood bordering suburban
Anne Arundel County) and
Calvert Street in Washington, D.C. His wife, Anne Arundell, is the namesake of
Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Harford County is named for
Henry Harford (1758/1760–1835), the illegitimate son of
Frederick, 6th and last Baron Baltimore (1731–1771).
Leonardtown, Maryland, now
county seat of
St. Mary's, is named for the younger brother of the Cecil, 2nd Lord Baltimore, the 28-year-old
Leonard Calvert (1606–1647), who arrived in the Colonial settling expedition of 1634 and set up the provincial government in the new capital of
St. Mary's City. The main downtown street in
Cumberland, Maryland, is named Baltimore Street, along with Baltimore Avenue, the main north–south highway of commercial business along the Atlantic coast to the resort town of
Ocean City. The Baltimore Road, which runs through the town of
Bladensburg was made famous due to its role in the
Battle of Bladensburg and the subsequent "
Burning of Washington" during the
War of 1812. On the
Avalon Peninsula in the
Province of Newfoundland and Labrador of the northeastern
Dominion of Canada, there is a settlement named
Calvert, and in nearby
Ferryland there is a "Baltimore School". There are also several other towns and villages across
North America in the several states with the name of "Baltimore", "New Baltimore" or "Old Baltimore". A life-sized bronze statue on a granite pedestal of Cecil, 2nd Lord Baltimore (1605–1675), is located on the steps of the western end at the
St. Paul Street entrance of the
Baltimore City Circuit Court House, the third courts structure on the nearby colonial-era Courthouse Square site (located to the east along
North Calvert Street), constructed 1896–1900 (now renamed the
Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse since 1985 for a noted local and
Civil Rights Movement leader,
Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. [1911–1984], known as "The 101st Senator") in
Baltimore, Maryland. The statue of Cecil, Lord Baltimore, sponsored by the
Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maryland, was dedicated November 21, 1908, and now faces a fountain and tree-shaded small plaza/park across the street, developed/laid out in 1964, between East Fayette and East Lexington Streets. Before the
American Revolution, a common flag used by military units of the colonial militia of the
Province of Maryland was known as the
Calvert Arms Flag. This flag had the original
Union Jack from the
Acts of Union 1707 as a
canton in the upper corner, with a
St. George's Cross and a
St. Andrew's Cross to represent the patron saint of
England and
Scotland, respectively. This Union Jack canton is in the upper corner of the banner over the black and gold (yellow) chevrons depicted on the Calvert family's
shield and
coats-of-arms. Today, this historical colonial/provincial flag is often displayed throughout the state, especially at historical, heritage and festival events such as for the
French and Indian War era, (1754–1763) at colonial
Fort Frederick in
Washington County in the mountainous western panhandle of the state. The modern
flag of the State of Maryland still bears the Calvert-Crossland family / Lord Baltimore coats-of-arms and shield, and has been used since the 1880s with the four quarters reunited after the tragic splits in the
border states of the
American Civil War, with the Northern
Union Army regiments using the black and gold chevrons and the Southern
Confederate States Army units using the red/white trefoil cross botonee. ==See also==