 For a brief period, the Maryland State Police set up an barracks in 1927-1929 leased from the Savage Manufacturing Company before relocating to Waterloo.By 1941 the company employed 325 people, and during World War II, produced 400,000 pounds of cotton duck a month.In 1948 the mill closed, and in the 1950s it spent a brief period being used to manufacture Christmas ornaments before closing permanently and converted for commercial use.