Maryland Route 276

Maryland Route 276 marker

Maryland Route 276

Maryland Route 276 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by MDSHA
Length: 7.85 mi[1] (12.63 km)
Existed: 1927 – present
Major junctions
South end: MD 222 in Port Deposit
 

MD 275 in Woodlawn

MD 273 in Harrisville
North end: US 1 near Harrisville
Location
Counties: Cecil
Highway system
← MD 275MD 277 →

Maryland Route 276 (MD 276) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as Jacob Tome Memorial Highway, the state highway runs 7.85 miles (12.63 km) from MD 222 in Port Deposit north to U.S. Route 1 (US 1) near Harrisville. MD 276, which connects Port Deposit with Rising Sun, is named for Jacob Tome, a lumber magnate, state senator, and philanthropist of Port Deposit in the 19th century. The state highway is signed as part of MD 222 Truck from MD 275 in Woodlawn north to US 1. The segment of MD 276 that runs due north–south was originally further to the east, between Hopewell Manor and what is now MD 273 in Rising Sun; that segment was paved by 1910. The portion of the state highway between Port Deposit and Rising Sun was constructed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. MD 276 was shifted west to between Woodlawn and its present northern terminus at US 1 in the late 1950s.

Route description

MD 276 begins at an intersection with MD 222 (Main Street) in the town of Port Deposit two blocks east of the Susquehanna River. The two-lane state highway, which is Center Street in town and becomes Jacob Tome Memorial Highway at the town limit, heads northeast and begins a steep ascent onto the high bluff above the river. At the top of the hill, MD 276 runs through a mix of farmland and forest, passing scattered residences on the southbound side and the property of former United States Naval Training Center, Bainbridge on the northbound side before intersecting the northern end of MD 275 (Perrylawn Drive) in Woodlawn.[1][2]

At the intersection where Hopewell Road, the old alignment of MD 276, continues straight northeast near Hopewell Manor, the state highway curves to the north, crossing several branches of Basin Run and passing to the east of the West Nottingham Academy Historic District and the namesake boarding school. MD 276 parallels Harrisville Road, which provides access to West Nottingham Meetinghouse, between Barnes Corner Road and MD 273 (Rising Sun Road). The two state highways meet at a roundabout in Harrisville, which is west of the town of Rising Sun. MD 276 continues north a short distance to its northern terminus at US 1 (Rising Sun Bypass). The roadway continues north as county-maintained Slicers Mill Road.[1][2]

MD 276 is a part of the National Highway System as a principal arterial from near Waibel Road to Hopewell Road within Woodlawn.[1][3]

History

The portion of MD 276 out of Port Deposit follows the path of the Old Baltimore and Philadelphia Turnpike, a collection of free and toll roads that passed through Cecil County from a ferry crossing at Port Deposit northeast through Calvert to Chester County, Pennsylvania. The segment of the highway that turned north to Rising Sun originally followed Hopewell Road from its intersection with the turnpike at Cathers Corner—now the intersection of Hopewell Road and Post Road—north to Main Street in the town of Rising Sun, following Wilson Street within the town.[4] The Cathers Corner–Rising Sun segment of MD 276 was paved by 1910.[5] The state highway was paved from Port Deposit toward Cathers Corner beginning in 1926.[6] MD 276 was completed by 1933.[7]

MD 276 was realigned to its present corridor in 1959. The state highway was designated along Kelly Road from Hopewell Road to Barnes Corner Road, which was then MD 269; on Harrisville Road north to MD 273; and along Slicers Mill Road from MD 273 to US 1 on the Rising Sun Bypass.[8] MD 276 was moved to its present alignment from south of Barnes Corner Road to MD 273 either at the same time or some time later. The most recent upgrade to MD 276 was the construction of the roundabout at the MD 273 junction in 2003.[9]

Junction list

The entire route is in Cecil County.

Locationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
Port Deposit0.000.00 MD 222 (Main Street) – Perryville, Conowingo
Woodlawn2.253.62
MD 275 / MD 222 Truck south (Perrylawn Drive) – Perryville		MD 222 Truck continues south on MD 275
Harrisville7.3611.84 MD 273 (Rising Sun Road) – Harrisville, Rising Sun, Newark, DERoundabout
7.8512.63
US 1 / MD 222 Truck north (Rising Sun Bypass) – Bel Air, Oxford, PA		MD 222 Truck continues south on US 1
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Highway Information Services Division (December 31, 2013). Highway Location Reference. Maryland State Highway Administration. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Google (2010-10-18). "Maryland Route 276" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
  3. ↑ National Highway System: Maryland (PDF) (Map). Federal Highway Administration. October 1, 2012. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
  4. ↑ Havre de Grace, MD quadrangle (Map) (1942 ed.). 1:48,000. 15 Minute Series (Topographic). United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
  5. ↑ Maryland Geological Survey (1910). Map of Maryland (Map). Baltimore: Maryland Geological Survey.
  6. ↑ Mackall, John N.; Darnall, R. Bennett; Brown, W.W. (January 1927). "Annual Reports of the State Roads Commission of Maryland" (1924–1926 ed.). Baltimore: Maryland State Roads Commission. p. 75. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
  7. ↑ Maryland Geological Survey (1933). Map of Maryland Showing State Road System: State Aid Roads and Improved County Road Connections (Map). Baltimore: Maryland Geological Survey.
  8. ↑ Maryland State Roads Commission (1959). Maryland: Official Highway Map (Map). Baltimore: Maryland State Roads Commission.
  9. ↑ Highway Information Services Division (December 31, 2003). Highway Location Reference. Maryland State Highway Administration. Retrieved 2010-10-18.

External links

Route map: Bing