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When the U.S. Highway System was established in 1926, US 50 was placed on all of Defense Highway and West Street into Annapolis. [11] The U.S. Highway continued from Church Circle along East Street and King George Street to its national eastern terminus at the Annapolis terminal of the Annapolis–Claiborne ferry across the Chesapeake Bay. When ...
The Fabyan building at 26-30 West Street was designed by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott, and built in 1926. The Schraffts Building at 16-24 West Street was built in 1922, and housed a flagship candy store and restaurant for more than fifty years. [2] The West Street District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]
It ended at Church Circle in Annapolis, near St. Anne's Church. [11] Beyond the end of US 50 was a ferry which connected the route to what was then MD 17 on the Eastern Shore, in Talbot County. Just before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge 's completion, in 1948, US 50 was extended east to Ocean City .
The Everett Avenue–Sheffield Road Historic District is a historic district encompassing one of the finest residential districts from the turn of the 20th century in Winchester, Massachusetts. The district is roughly triangular in shape, bounded in the north by Bacon Street, on the west by Church Street, Sheffield West, and Sheffield Road, and ...
The Sheffield Resolves, or Sheffield Declaration, was an early Colonial American petition against British rule and manifesto for individual rights, drawn up as a series of resolves approved by the Town of Sheffield on January 12, 1773, and printed in The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas's Boston Journal on February 18, 1773.
Housatonic Street – Lenox Center, Lenox Dale: At-grade intersection: 25.565: 41.143: Northern end of limited-access section: Route 7A south to Route 183 – Historic Lenox: Northern terminus of Route 7A; former routing of US 7: Pittsfield: 30.814: 49.590: US 20 west – Albany, NY: Northern end of US 20 concurrency: 31.004: 49.896: Route 9 ...
The Sheffield Center Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Sheffield, Massachusetts. The village extends linearly along United States Route 7, roughly between Maple Avenue and Berkshire School Road, and includes the town's major civic and religious buildings. The area's principal period of development was between 1760 and ...
The location of acclaimed national educational schools such as the St. John's College, (elevated to collegiate status in 1784, founded as "King William's School" in 1696) with its historic red-brick Colonial/Georgian and Federal-styled buildings (including the former colonial Governor's Mansion, begun in 1742, later used as McDowell Hall, the ...