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Maryland Route 35 (MD 35) is a
state highway A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
in the
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of
Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
. Known as Ellerslie Road, the state highway runs north from MD 36 in
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to the
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state line in Ellerslie. There the highway continues north as
Pennsylvania Route 96 Pennsylvania Route 96 (PA 96) is a state highway located in southwestern Pennsylvania. The southern terminus of the route is at the Maryland border in Londonderry Township, where PA 96 continues to the south as Maryland Route 35 (MD 35). The n ...
(PA 96). MD 35 was constructed in the late 1910s and was one of the original signed state highways in 1927. The state highway runs through the valley of Wills Creek, an important passage for the railroads beginning in the mid 19th century.


Route description

MD 35 begins at an intersection with MD 36 (Mount Savage Road) in Corriganville. The state highway immediately intersects Kreigbaum Road, which is unsigned MD 831C. After leaving Corriganville, MD 35 heads north as a two-lane undivided road lined with scattered residences. The state highway runs through a narrow valley between
Wills Mountain Wills Mountain is a quartzite-capped ridge in the Ridge and Valley physiographic province of the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania and Maryland, United States, extending from near Bedford, Pennsylvania, to near Cumberland, Maryland. It is the ...
to the east and Little Allegheny Mountain to the west, paralleled by Wills Creek and
CSX CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. ...
's
Keystone Subdivision The Keystone Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Maryland and Pennsylvania. The line runs from Cumberland, Maryland, west to McKeesport, Pennsylvania, (near Pittsburgh) along a former Baltimo ...
railroad line. MD 35 passes through Ellerslie, within which the highway crosses a branch of Wills Creek, before reaching its northern terminus at the Pennsylvania state line. The highway continues north as PA 96 (Hyndman Road) toward Hyndman. MD 35 is a part of the National Highway System as a principal arterial for its entire length.


History

The valley of Wills Creek north of Corriganville has a significant place in railroad history as not only part of the ascent from Cumberland to the Summit of the Alleghenies at Sand Patch but also part of the route between
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and
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. No less than three different railroads used the part of the valley north of Corriganville in the late 19th century:
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...
,
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad The Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad (C&P) was an American railroad which operated in Western Maryland. Primarily a coal hauler, it was owned by the Consolidation Coal Company, and was purchased by the Western Maryland Railway (WM) in 1944. ...
, and
Western Maryland Railway The Western Maryland Railway was an American Class I railroad (1852–1983) which operated in Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. It was primarily a coal hauling and freight railroad, with a small passenger train operation. The WM beca ...
. The first road built through the valley, the Creek Road, was present by 1898. This road was built adjacent to Wills Creek and remains today as Beach View Drive in Corriganville and Schellsburg Road in Ellerslie. Between 1917 and 1919 a new road was built by the
Maryland State Roads Commission The Maryland State Highway Administration (abbreviated MDOT SHA or simply SHA) is the state transportation business unit responsible for maintaining Maryland's numbered highways outside Baltimore City. Formed originally under authority of the Ge ...
following the present alignment on the hillside above the creek. In 1927, this road was one of the original signed Maryland state numbered highways. The MD 35 designation originally extended further south along what is today MD 36 to
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just above the
Cumberland Narrows The Cumberland Narrows (or simply The Narrows) is a water gap in western Maryland in the United States, just west of Cumberland. Wills Creek cuts through the central ridge of the Wills Mountain Anticline at a low elevation here between Wills Mou ...
. The southern terminus of MD 35 was rolled back to Corriganville and replaced by MD 36 between 1939 and 1946.


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