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MD 18Y is the designation for Hess Frontage Road, a 0.11-mile (0.18 km) spur that parallels the eastbound side of US 50/US 301 east of MD 18X in Grasonville. [1] [37] MD 18Z is the designation for a 0.03-mile (0.048 km) portion of Evans Avenue adjacent to a right-in/right-out interchange (exit 44B) with eastbound US 50/US 301 in Grasonville.
Many residents of the island are seasonal residents who reside primarily in Washington, D.C. or Baltimore. Features of the island include a yacht club, golf, tennis, skeet shooting, a post office, a historical society, and an Episcopal church. [4]
[29] [30] The business route between MD 349 and MD 346 was a relocation of US 50 from Main Street built in the early 1960s. [31] East of MD 346, US 50 Bus. is part of the relocation of US 50 between Salisbury and Berlin completed in the mid-1960s. [32] US 50 Bus. was designated when the US 50 portion of the Salisbury Bypass was completed in ...
In 1905, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany proposed a sailing race across the North Atlantic and put forward a solid gold cup to be presented to the winner. Eleven boats including the Kaiser's yacht Hamburg, George Lauder Jr's schooner the Endymion which was the record holder going into the race, and the schooner Atlantic skippered by Charlie Barr, with navigator and tactician Frederick Maxfield ...
Maryland Route 611 (MD 611) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Stephen Decatur Highway , the state highway runs 8.51 miles (13.70 km) from Assateague Island north to U.S. Route 50 (US 50) in West Ocean City .
With the announcement in 1960 of the first single-handed trans-Atlantic yacht race (from Plymouth, UK to the US East Coast), Lewis decided to enter in a small 25-foot boat. Following a series of accidents, including a dismasting shortly after leaving, he finished third (Francis Chichester came first), as described in his book The Ship Would Not ...
The Public Works Administration, a New Deal federal program, partially funded the construction of a 20-foot-wide (6.1 m) concrete road along what is now MD 250A and MD 359 in 1935 and 1936. [ 78 ] [ 88 ] The original route of US 113 was redesignated MD 756 by 1946.
Mountain Road is a two-lane road that heads north as a state highway, signed as US 40 Scenic west and unsigned as 0.91-mile (1.46 km) long MD 903. MD 903's northern terminus is at US 40 Scenic's ramp onto westbound I-68. [1] [3] View west from the east end of the county-maintained portion of US 40 Scenic at MD 144 west of Hancock