 In this full-service town, there was the Hyattstown Inn, a one-room school-house, a butcher, a blacksmith, and other commercial venues.These historical commercial buildings are now private homes.Quarries nearby supplied slate for roofing the old United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Hyattstown was the location of a Civil War artillery battle between General Nathaniel Prentice Banks' troops and General Stonewall Jackson's troops in 1862.