Sang Run was an active community in Garrett County, supporting a general store, school, church, and water-powered mill whose remains can still be seen. Its Election House, according to local tradition, was built in 1872 when Garrett County was created from Allegany County, and that same year the first presidential election there was held between Ulysses S. Grant and Horace Greeley. Before public schools were adopted as polling places, election houses were common throughout the country, and the Sang Run Election House is now the only documented one still standing in Western Maryland. A total of 25 presidential elections were held in the building, ending with the 1972 contest between Richard Nixon and George McGovern. In 1914, the campaign for women's suffrage passed through this location as a grassroots effort of seven women marched from town to town, farm to farm, and door to door seeking support, stopping at 15 election houses over more than 110 miles in Garrett and Allegany Counties. Those efforts helped pave the way for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. In 2019, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources began restoring the building, the work was completed in 2020, and in 2021 the Maryland Park Service, the Garrett County Commission on Women, the Youghiogheny Glades Chapter National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and other partners recreated the march from Friendsville to Sang Run.