Mount Savage, MD

Mount Savage is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland, United States. The 2010 census counted 873 residents. A small blue-collar community, Mount Savage lies at the base of Big Savage Mountain in the Allegheny Mountains, between the cities of Frostburg and Cumberland. Mount Savage began as a small farming settlement in the mid-19th century, but it was not until 1844 that the region was put on the nation's map with the pressing of the first iron rail in the United States. Mount Savage Museum & Historical Park. Union Mining Company Office Building.

The through line in Mount Savage is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Mount Savage makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. After this claim to fame, Mount Savage became the fifth largest city in Maryland. The name origin of Mount Savage is derived from a land surveyor, Thomas Savage, who happened to be traveling through the area in 1736. The Archibald Arnold family later settled "Arnold's Settlement", now Mount Savage, around September 30, 1774.