[3] In 2014, the Crossroads were placed on the Preserve Howard top ten most endangered list due to current DPZ plans.

The majority of the downtown Highland district is situated within the 418-acre (169 ha) land grant named "Hickory Ridge".

[9] The town did not receive direct rail service, but was only nine miles away from the B&O railroad in Laurel, Maryland using the rolling road now known as Route 216.

The town is believed to have hosted meetings of anti-British men who influenced the 1774 burning of the Peggy Stewart in Annapolis, the year after the Boston Tea Party protest.

[12] Well's Tavern (now the Kitty Bed and Breakfast) was the primary meeting place of a group of Northern sympathizers in the Civil War.