Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Savage, MD

Savage is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland, on the Little Patuxent River, about eighteen miles south of Baltimore and twenty-one miles north of Washington, D.C.

The land around Savage was first settled by Europeans around 1650, and Colonel Henry Ridgley surveyed the area in 1685; a gristmill opened there in 1734.

Savage was established in 1822 and named for Philadelphia merchant John Savage, who with the Williams brothers chartered the Savage Manufacturing Company that year and bought 900 acres for $6,666.67.

Parts of the Savage Mill textile complex date to about 1820, and the mill operation once included an iron foundry that made textile machinery.

The former mill town is preserved in the Savage Mill Historic District, and a renovation begun in 1984 turned the old mill into a marketplace of shops and restaurants.

The Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge at Savage, built in 1869 and moved to its present site over the Little Patuxent River in 1887, is the sole surviving example of Wendel Bollman's iron truss design and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000.

Carroll Baldwin Hall, built in 1921 and 1922 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, honors Carroll Baldwin, a Savage Mill supervisor who died in 1918.

Savage was a sizable mill town in the nineteenth century, with 2,617 residents counted in 1880 and 2,930 in 1890.

The U.S. Census counted 7,542 residents in Savage in 2020, up from 7,054 in 2010.

The median age of Savage residents in 2020 was 37.1 years, and the CDP covers about 2.74 square miles.