Maryland Route 6
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| MD Route 6 |
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| Riverside Road, Charles Street, Newmarket-Turner Road Maintained by MDSHA |
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| Length: | 47.38 mi[1] (76.25 km) | ||||||||||||
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| West end: | Riverside | ||||||||||||
| Major junctions: |
 US 301 |
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| East end: |  MD 235 in Turner |
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Maryland Route 6 is a state highway in Southern Maryland. Unlike many other state highways in the area, it remains a two-lane roadway, and has not had many major realignments. When the 9-1-1 system was adopted many of the roads that make up the route were renamed.
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Maryland Route 6 begins its nominally west-to-east progression in Charles County at the Potomac River near the unincorporated town of Riverside. In the 1920s a Potomac River crossing was contemplated here, but it was instead built downriver as the Harry Nice Memorial Bridge. Route 6 traverses the rural communities Nanjemoy, Welcome, and Port Tobacco as Port Tobacco Road until it reaches US 301 in La Plata where it becomes Charles Street. When it crosses into Saint Mary's County, in the community of Charlotte Hall, it becomes New Market Road, then New Market Turner Road after crossing MD 5. The road ends at MD 235 near Turner, Maryland.
