Home > Courses > Calvert

Calvert

Elevation : 335
Population : 1,523

Calvert was once the fourth largest city in Texas, bustling with hotels, theaters, opera houses, expensive Victorian homes, and a population exceeding 10,000. Once the railroad came through, plantation owners made cotton king and displayed their wealth by building spectacular Victorian mansions in the Brazos River bottoms. Civil War heroes held reunions in Virginia Field Park, the largest cotton gin in the world was built, and times were good. Now you can come to Calvert to take your time, shop for antiques, absorb the history, and play golf at the 9-hole Calvert Country Club.

Calvert Golf Courses :

• Calvert Country Club

NOTES
Calvert has 37 blocks of homes listed on the National Historic Register. Get to know the town by touring the historic buildings, particularly the pre-1900 churches that dot the town. The 1872 Calvert Hotel (979-364-2430) has been restored, a plantation-style country inn that reeks of the “Old South.”, and features an outstanding chef for good eats. The best is the Calvert Inn (979-364-2868 ), where the honeymoon suite has claw-foot bathtubs in the bedroom for the true romantic. They say this is the Antique Capital of Texas so rummage through Cobb’s Market or Rustique on Main Street for eclectic trinkets. Out front you can grab a pre-round cup of joe at Mojoe’s Coffee Cart. More food at Somewhere in Time, open only on the weekends, but the rib-eyes are phenomenal. Every May, the Maypole Festival brings tourismos for art, blue-grass music, and fun.