Maryland Route 380 (MD 380) 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
U.S. state 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 ...
. The state highway runs from Ape Hole Road at
Lawsonia north to Main Street at the city limit of
Crisfield in southwestern
Somerset County. MD 380, which is the southernmost state highway in Maryland, provides access to a suburban area south of Crisfield. The state highway was built in the mid-1930s.
Route description
MD 380 begins at a three-way intersection with Byrdtown Road, which heads southwest, and Ape Hole Road, which heads southeast toward Ape Hole Creek, an inlet of the
Pocomoke Sound
Pocomoke Sound is a bay of the Chesapeake Bay that forms part of the boundary between the Eastern Shores of Maryland and Virginia. The Pocomoke River is the largest stream feeding into the Sound, which is bounded by Somerset County, Maryland on ...
. The state highway heads north as two-lane undivided Lawsonia Road through a residential area. MD 380 passes Boone Road and Asbury Road, which were formerly
MD 359 and
MD 358, respectively,
before reaching a four-way intersection with Walter Jones Road, Freedomtown Road, and Main Street Extended. MD 380 turns west onto Main Street Extended. The state highway reaches its northern terminus at the Crisfield city limits adjacent to the
Crisfield Armory. Main Street heads west through the
Crisfield Historic District, where the street intersects Somerset Avenue and
MD 413.
History
MD 380 was constructed east and south from the pre-existing concrete Main Street in Crisfield starting in 1934.
The state highway was completed and marked along its present route by 1939.
MD 380 extended west to Somerset Avenue, then part of MD 358, in the mid-1950s when the highway was widened, but was removed from the city of Crisfield by 1995.
Junction list
See also
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External links
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MDRoads: MD 380
Crisfield, Maryland
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Maryland Route 380