The district was part of a land grant named Ridgeley's Forest, surveyed in 1685 by Colonel Henry Ridgley.

[2] In 1750, Alexander Warfield built a mill along the river which was eclipsed by a larger construction chartered in 1812 by the Williams Brothers.

A decade later the Baldwin family erected a stone community hall for the town and constructed a large group of tenant houses.

[5] For a brief period, the Maryland State Police set up a barracks in 1927-1929 leased from the Savage Manufacturing Company before relocating to Waterloo.

[6] By 1941 the company employed 325 people, and during World War II, produced 400,000 pounds of cotton duck a month.