Sabillasville, MD

Sabillasville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The 2010 census counted 354 residents. The Victor Cullen School Power House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 and the Victor Cullen Center, Old Administration Building was listed in 1990. The first European settlers to arrive in the vicinity of Sabillasville were Swiss immigrants in the late-1750s. A newcomer can read Sabillasville through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Sabillasville comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines.

Among the earliest settlers was Peter Zollinger, who owned the land on which the present-day village is located. The town is located in the northwest corner of Frederick County at an elevation of 1,100 feet above sea level, in the Harbaugh Valley, between South Mountain to the northwest and Wertenbaker Hill to the southeast. Route 550 passes through the town, leading northwest 2 miles to Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, and southeast 7 miles to Thurmont.