Maryland Route 305

Route description

MD 305 begins at MD 213 (Church Hill Road) on the north side of the town of Centreville. The highway heads east as two-lane undivided Hope Road, which passes the historic home Content and crosses Three Bridges Branch. MD 305 meets US 301 (Blue Star Memorial Highway) at an acute superstreet intersection; traffic on MD 305 that wishes to continue on that route must turn right onto US 301, make a U-turn, and turn right again to continue on the highway. Immediately to the east of the US 301 junction, the highway crosses the Centreville Branch of the Northern Line of the Maryland and Delaware Railroad at-grade at the hamlet of Carville. MD 305 passes the historic home Lansdowne on its way to the hamlet of Hope, where the state highway ends at an intersection with Dean Road and Hayden Road. Hope Road continues east as a county highway toward MD 405 at Roe.

History

Queen Anne's County constructed with state aid a 9 ft macadam road from the Centreville Branch of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad at Carville east to Hope by 1915. The Maryland State Roads Commission built a 15 ft concrete road in two sections from Centreville to Carville in 1922 and 1923. MD 305 in the town of Centreville was resurfaced in 1949, and the route from Centreville to the US 301 intersection was reconstructed in 1973 and 1974. The highway's superstreet intersection with US 301 was built in 2017 as part of the contract to build the MD 304–US 301 interchange to the south.

In 1946, Queen Anne's County requested funds for the 3-year post-war construction program to be applied to the 5.5 mi road from Hope to Ingleside. The county specifically requested the 0.88 mi segment southwest from MD 19 at Ingleside toward Roe be funded for construction during the first year of the program. After the Ingleside segment was constructed with a sand bituminous mix surface in 1946, the highway was proposed to be designated MD 526. However, the following year the Maryland State Roads Commission brought the highway into the state highway system as a segment of MD 305, and additional segments of the Hope–Ingleside highway would be brought into the state highway system as they were completed. The state never did construct additional segments of the Hope–Ingleside road; the roads commission transferred MD 305B from state to county maintenance through a February 19, 1962, memorandum of action.

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References

References

1. {{Maryland HLR. (2016)
2. Staff. "Maryland General Highway Statewide Grid Map". Maryland State Highway Administration.
3. {{Maryland SRC report. (1915)
4. {{Maryland SRC report. (1923)
5. {{Maryland SRC report. (1950)
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7. (January 22, 1946). "Excerpt from Minutes of Meeting of the State Roads Commission". Maryland State Roads Commission.
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9. (November 21, 1946). "Letter from William F. Childs, Jr., to Mr. Cassell". Maryland State Roads Commission.
10. (December 9, 1947). "Excerpt from Minutes of Meeting of the State Roads Commission". Maryland State Roads Commission.
11. (February 19, 1962). "Memorandum of Action of State Roads Commission of Maryland". Maryland State Roads Commission.
12. Combs, Hannah. (August 9, 2017). "301/304 overpass expected to open next week". Kent Island Bay Times.