The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The town is named for the Scaggs family, who settled 700 acres (2.8 km2) of farmland in the 1830s and continue to live in the region. The area also used the name "Hells Corner" as a postal address in Civil War times. The historic path running through town was shown on maps as far back as 1795. This path is now named Lime Kiln Road, Scaggsville Road, and Whiskey Bottom Road. In the 19th century, Scaggsville was a stagecoach stop on the trip from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. Stagecoaches would ford the Patuxent River until a wooden bridge was built in 1859, which washed out in an 1868 flood. Three additional bridges washed out by 1883 before a steel truss bridge was built. In 1941, the Maryland Gazette reported that the town consisted of 15 households. Today, it has grown to a suburban community made up of several neighborhoods.
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Commons2019-06-05 12 25 11 View north along Interstate 95 at the e…2019
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CommonsAerial view of routes 29 and 216 interchange, September 20182018
Commons2016-09-17 14 33 38 View north along U.S. Route 29 (Columbi…2016
Commons2016-09-16 13 44 57 View north along Maryland State Route 9…2016
Commons2016-09-16 13 41 20 View east along Maryland State Route 21…2016Nothing in Scaggsville is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Scaggsville has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Granite Park in Columbia, 2.4 miles away.
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