A copy of the town seal was recently framed and presented by Mayor Perry Jones to the Maryland State House in Annapolis to hang among the other town seals. 

(Click on the image to see large view.)
The town seal was designed and painted by Richard Eichman.   Graphic development by Vicki Myers. 

The following poem, by Richard Eichman, is an explanation of the items depicted on the town seal.

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THE SEAL OF THE TOWN OF UNION BRIDGE

The bridge, its building, and the purpose serv’d,
All these are in the name and seal preserv’d;
For, greater far, a lesson from the past,
Which shall the bridge, town, name, and seal outlast.
On land by early Quaker settlers found,
Where rolling waters mirror’d rolling ground,
The span of wood and stone, in union made,
That Buttersburg¹ might ply the butter trade
(For then were mov’d by foot or hoofs’ slow tread
Goods that by rail in latter days were sped),
More than opposing river banks, conjoin’d
Humanity, in hand and heart and mind.
The will of God, who watches from above,
That each sould hold his brother’s soul in love,
By aim and act an product then was shown,
Though simple were the thoughts, tools, wood, and stone;
Today, by sturdier stuff, ‘tis yet fulfill’d:
‘United’—hear the motto’s words—‘we build.’

Richard Eichman
Poet Laureate to the Town of Union Bridge
Creator and Painter of the Town Seal

¹Former name of the town.