Portal:Maryland roads/Selected article/April 2013

MD 7 near I-695 in Rossville

Maryland Route 7 (MD 7) is a collection of state highways in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for much of their length as Philadelphia Road, there are five disjoint mainline sections of the highway totaling 40.63 miles (65.39 km) that parallel U.S. Route 40 (US 40) in Baltimore, Harford, and Cecil counties in northeastern Maryland. The longest section of MD 7 begins at US 40 just east of the city of Baltimore in Rosedale and extends through eastern Baltimore County and southern Harford County to US 40 in Aberdeen. The next segment of the state highway is a C-shaped route through Havre de Grace. The third mainline section of MD 7 begins in Perryville and ends at US 40 a short distance west of the start of the fourth section, which passes through Charlestown and North East before ending at US 40 just west of Elkton. The fifth segment of the highway begins at MD 213 and passes through downtown Elkton before reconnecting with US 40 west of the Delaware state line. The route was the post road between Baltimore and Philadelphia and between the northern and southern colonies. The highway in Baltimore and Harford counties became a turnpike in the 19th century. The Maryland State Roads Commission built the road as a state highway in the 1910s and 1920s, designating it US 40 in 1927. The high volume of traffic and the required continuous expansion of the highway led the Maryland State Roads Commission to construct the modern Pulaski Highway between 1935 and 1941, with old sections of US 40 became segments of MD 7. (more...)

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