Union Bridge is an industrial and commercial center for the area that began in the late eighteenth century as a market village established by English Quaker and German settlers to include a sawmill, nail factory, general store, and a few log houses. Substantive growth did not occur, however, until the coming of the Western Maryland Railway in 1862, after which its linear plan was expanded to the current grid, and most of its buildings were erected. Union Bridge is notable for the railway buildings, and for its exuberant late-nineteenth-century residences erected by local builders. The most significant buildings are along Main Street, with industrial development clustered around the railway to the east, and residences to the south.
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