Maryland Route 213
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Maryland Route 213 is a 68-mile (109 km) north-south highway on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The road runs from the Pennsylvania state line at Lewisville, where it turns into PA 841, to Wye Mills. It serves the major regional towns of Elkton, Chesapeake City, Chestertown, and Centreville.
Maryland Route 213 used to be signed as U.S. Route 213, starting at U.S. 40 and running south (the part from U.S. 40 to Pennsylvania was Maryland Route 280). Prior to 1949, US 213 continued past Wye Mills all the way to Ocean City. The route was truncated when U.S. Route 50 arrived on the Eastern Shore due to the impending completion of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and as a result US 213 no longer crossed US 13.
Before it was labeled as 213, it was an important route on the journey between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC. George Washington, among many others, frequented the inns along the way.
Its Chesapeake City Bridge crosses the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in north Maryland.
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- Maryland Route 213 was created when U.S. 213 was decommissioned in the 1970s.
- It was extended from U.S. 40 to the Pennsylvania border along the former Maryland Route 280; since 213 had become a state highway, the separate route number 280 was no longer needed.
- It becomes Pennsylvania Route 841 north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
