 The building was converted to a movie theatre in 1915, with a parking garage on the lower floor of the wood structure; it burned in 1917, and Academy Ford built on the same site in the late 20th century.In 1888 inventor David J. Weems tested an unmanned electric train on a two-mile banked circular track near Laurel Station.The three-ton vehicle reached speeds of up to 120 mph for twenty minutes.