Still Pond, Maryland

[2] Much of the community is included in the Still Pond Historic District and it is notable as the first place in Maryland in which women gained the right to vote.

A few properties are fronted by fencing or hedges, and most residential yards contain ornamental landscaping and mature vegetation.

Located at a crossroads surrounded by family farms, the town served as a commercial hub and center of community life.

The district derives additional historical significance as the first place in Maryland that women gained the right to vote.

In addition, Still Pond Historic District has architectural significance, embodying distinctive characteristics of types, periods, and methods of construction of architecture, as it contains numerous examples of Victorian, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman styles, as well as vernacular building forms.

The district possesses a significant concentration of buildings that are united historically and aesthetically by physical development.

The majority of the town’s structures were in place by the end of the 1930s, and the district had substantially achieved its historic character and appearance.