Portal:Maryland roads/Selected article/January 2015

A view of MD 413 south of Lovers Lane

Maryland Route 413 (MD 413) is a 14.61-mile (23.51 km) state highway in Somerset County in the U.S. state of Maryland. The route runs from a dead end at Crisfield's city dock on Tangier Sound northeast to U.S. Route 13 in Westover. It is the main highway leading into Crisfield, and is known as Crisfield Highway for much of its length. The highway travels through mostly rural areas of farms and woods as well as the communities of Hopewell, Marion Station, and Kingston. It is a two-lane undivided road for most of its length; a portion of the road in Crisfield is a four-lane road that follows a one-way pair. MD 413 is part of two scenic routes: Blue Crab Scenic Byway and the Beach to Bay Indian Trail, both are Maryland Scenic Byways. The Crisfield–Westover Road was one of the original state roads marked for improvement by the Maryland State Roads Commission. The highway was paved in the 1910s and designated MD 413 in 1927. MD 413 was relocated between the late 1930s and 1950 to a new alignment parallel to the now-abandoned Eastern Shore Railroad line between Crisfield and Westover. The old alignment of MD 413 was designated MD 667. The state highway was expanded to a divided highway in the mid-1950s in Crisfield. (more...)

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