Maryland Route 924
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Maryland Route 924 is a state highway
in the U.S. state
of Maryland
. The state highway runs 7.34 miles (11.8 km) from MD 24
near Edgewood
to U.S. Route 1
(US 1) and MD 24 in Bel Air
. MD 924 is the old alignment of MD 24 through the Bel Air area in central Harford County
. The state highway was originally constructed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. MD 924 was assigned when MD 24 was moved to a new divided highway to the west in 1987.
, Old Emmorton Road splits to the east and MD 924 passes through the hamlet of Emmorton
. The state highway gains a center turn lane at Wheel Road and continues north as a three-lane highway through suburban areas past its intersection with MacPhail Road, where the highway enters the town of Bel Air and its name changes to Main Street.
MD 924 remains a three-lane street until the highway splits into a one-way pair
at Linwood Avenue at the southern edge of downtown Bel Air. Northbound MD 924 continues on Main Street while the southbound direction follows Bond Street one block to the west. Within the Bel Air Courthouse Historic District
, which contains the county courthouse and county offices at the center of the county seat, the one-way pair intersects another one-way pair, Fulford Avenue eastbound and Churchville Road westbound. Those streets head east from Main Street as MD 22
and west as US 1 Business
, which joins MD 924 in a concurrency
. Within the downtown area, MD 924 passes the Harford National Bank
building, the Odd Fellows Lodge
, the Graham-Crocker House
, the Bel Air Armory
, and the Hays House, now a museum and home of the Harford County Historical Society.
The two directions of the one-way pair come together at Gordon Street on the north side of downtown. Gordon Street leads west to the historic home Liriodendron
and east to the historic Proctor House
. One block to the north, US 1 Business turns northeast onto Broadway. MD 924's name changes to Rock Spring Avenue at Maulsby Avenue. The state highway heads through the northern part of the town as a three-lane road with center turn lane to its northern terminus at a partial cloverleaf interchange with the Bel Air Bypass, which carries US 1. Southbound MD 24 follows the Bel Air Bypass around the northwest side of the town and then south to the other end of MD 924. The roadway continues as MD 24 north toward Forest Hill
.
When the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway was under construction in 1986, the old alignment of MD 24 was provisionally marked as a northern segment of MD 755
, which is the designation for old MD 24 in Edgewood. MD 924 was assigned to the old alignment of MD 24 between Edgewood and the Bel Air Bypass when MD 24 was moved to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway in 1987. In autumn 2008, the Maryland Transportation Authority
began a project to build a diamond interchange at MD 24's junction with MD 924 and Tollgate Road just north of I-95. The interchange is expected to open in autumn 2011.
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{|class=wikitable
!Location
!Mile
!Destinations
!Notes
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|Edgewood
|0.00
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|Southern terminus; interchange under construction
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|rowspan=6|Bel Air
|5.20
|Bond Street
|South end of MD 924 one-way pair
|-
|5.45
|
|South end of concurrency with US 1 Business
|-
|5.51
|
|Western terminus of westbound direction of MD 22; Churchville Road heads west as unsigned MD 922E
|-
|5.95
|
|North end of MD 924 one-way pair
|-
|6.02
|
|North end of concurrency with US 1 Business
|-
|7.34
|
|Northern terminus; partial cloverleaf interchange
State highway
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in the U.S. state
U.S. state
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of Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
. The state highway runs 7.34 miles (11.8 km) from MD 24
Maryland Route 24
Maryland Route 24 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from an entrance to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Edgewood north to the Pennsylvania state line near Fawn Grove, Pennsylvania. MD 24 is the main north–south highway of Harford County...
near Edgewood
Edgewood, Maryland
Edgewood is a census-designated place in Harford County, Maryland, United States. The population was 23,378 at the 2000 census.-History:Pooles Island Light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.-Geography:...
to U.S. Route 1
U.S. Route 1 in Maryland
U.S. Route 1 is the easternmost and longest of the major north–south routes of the United States Numbered Highway System, running from Key West, Florida to Fort Kent, Maine. In the U.S...
(US 1) and MD 24 in Bel Air
Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland
The town of Bel Air is the county seat of Harford County, Maryland, United States. According to the 2000 census the population of the town was 10,080. In 2009 the town's estimated population was 10,368...
. MD 924 is the old alignment of MD 24 through the Bel Air area in central Harford County
Harford County, Maryland
Harford County is a county in the U.S. state of Maryland. In 2010, its population was 244,826. Its county seat is Bel Air. Harford County forms part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.-History:...
. The state highway was originally constructed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. MD 924 was assigned when MD 24 was moved to a new divided highway to the west in 1987.
Route description
MD 924 begins at an intersection with MD 24 (Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway) near Edgewood. Tollgate Road forms the west leg of the intersection, which is being transformed into a diamond interchange. MD 924 heads northeast and then north as two-lane Emmorton Road. The state highway gains a center turn lane as it passes between several residential subdivisions and a few shopping centers around its intersection with Singer Road and Abingdon Road at Norris Corner. After passing St. Mary's ChurchSt. Mary's Church (Emmorton, Maryland)
St. Mary's Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Emmorton, Harford County, Maryland. It is a small Gothic Revival parish church. It was built about 1851 and carefully designed in the "Early English" manner with gray rubble stone walls, cut Port Deposit granite trim, and a very steep...
, Old Emmorton Road splits to the east and MD 924 passes through the hamlet of Emmorton
Emmorton, Maryland
Emmorton is an unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States. St. Mary's Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.-References:...
. The state highway gains a center turn lane at Wheel Road and continues north as a three-lane highway through suburban areas past its intersection with MacPhail Road, where the highway enters the town of Bel Air and its name changes to Main Street.
MD 924 remains a three-lane street until the highway splits into a one-way pair
One-way pair
A one-way pair, one-way couple, or just couplet is a pair of parallel, usually one-way streets that carry opposite directions of a signed route or major traffic flow, or sometimes opposite directions of a bus or streetcar route....
at Linwood Avenue at the southern edge of downtown Bel Air. Northbound MD 924 continues on Main Street while the southbound direction follows Bond Street one block to the west. Within the Bel Air Courthouse Historic District
Bel Air Courthouse Historic District
Bel Air Courthouse Historic District is a national historic district at Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, United States. It consists of a small cohesive group of buildings, mostly two or three stories of brick or frame construction that were erected or renovated in the 19th to early 20th century...
, which contains the county courthouse and county offices at the center of the county seat, the one-way pair intersects another one-way pair, Fulford Avenue eastbound and Churchville Road westbound. Those streets head east from Main Street as MD 22
Maryland Route 22
Maryland Route 22 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from U.S. Route 1 Business and MD 924 in Bel Air east to an entrance to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen. MD 22 is the main connection between the county seat of Bel Air and Aberdeen, which is the...
and west as US 1 Business
U.S. Route 1 Business (Bel Air, Maryland)
U.S. Route 1 Business is a business route of U.S. Route 1 in the U.S. state of Maryland. The highway runs from US 1 and Maryland Route 147 in Benson north to US 1 near Hickory. US 1 Business is the old alignment of US 1 through Bel Air, the county seat of Harford County. US 1 was originally...
, which joins MD 924 in a concurrency
Concurrency (road)
A concurrency, overlap, or coincidence in a road network is an instance of one physical road bearing two or more different highway, motorway, or other route numbers...
. Within the downtown area, MD 924 passes the Harford National Bank
Harford National Bank
Harford National Bank is a historic bank building located at Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland. It is a one story, with day-light basement built in a modified Richardson Romanesque style of glazed red brick and rusticated brownstone...
building, the Odd Fellows Lodge
Odd Fellows Lodge (Bel Air, Maryland)
Odd Fellows Lodge, also known as Old First Presbyterian Church, is a historic building in Bel Air, Maryland, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975....
, the Graham-Crocker House
Graham-Crocker House
The Graham-Crocker House is a historic home located at 30 North Main Street, Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story frame dwelling with a shed addition to the south and an ell to the west, and dating to about 1825....
, the Bel Air Armory
Bel Air Armory
Bel Air Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland. It was constructed in 1915 of Port Deposit granite. The building consists of the main block, five bays by three, two stories over a raised basement, and the "drill hall" to the rear of the main block...
, and the Hays House, now a museum and home of the Harford County Historical Society.
The two directions of the one-way pair come together at Gordon Street on the north side of downtown. Gordon Street leads west to the historic home Liriodendron
Liriodendron (Bel Air, Maryland)
Liriodendron is a historic home and estate located at Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, United States. It was the summer home of Laetitia and Dr Howard Kelly, a successful surgeon and founding member of the Johns Hopkins Medical College, and comprises the mansion named Liriodendron; the...
and east to the historic Proctor House
Proctor House (Bel Air, Maryland)
Proctor House, also known as the Cassandra Gilbert House, is an historic home located at Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story detached Carpenter Gothic style cottage with board and batten siding, constructed between 1860 and 1873 and enlarged about 1884...
. One block to the north, US 1 Business turns northeast onto Broadway. MD 924's name changes to Rock Spring Avenue at Maulsby Avenue. The state highway heads through the northern part of the town as a three-lane road with center turn lane to its northern terminus at a partial cloverleaf interchange with the Bel Air Bypass, which carries US 1. Southbound MD 24 follows the Bel Air Bypass around the northwest side of the town and then south to the other end of MD 924. The roadway continues as MD 24 north toward Forest Hill
Forest Hill, Maryland
Forest Hill is an unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States located north of the county seat of Bel Air. The main part of town is located at the intersection of Maryland Route 24 and Jarrettsville Road...
.
History
Construction on what is now MD 924 got underway with the construction of a 1 miles (1.6 km) section of macadam road from Ring Factory Road south to Plumtree Road near Emmorton between 1925 and 1927. Another macadam segment was completed from Emmorton south to Singer Road at Norris Corner in 1928. A concrete highway from Norris Corner toward US 40 in Edgewood, as well as a macadam road along Rock Spring Avenue from Bel Air to the community of Frogtown, which is the location of the Bel Air Bypass, were started in 1929. The first section of the road toward Edgewood, which includes the southernmost part of MD 924, was completed to approximately the location of I-95 in 1930. The road to Frogtown was also completed in 1930. Two county highway gaps in the state highway from Edgewood to Bel Air—from Ring Factory Road to Bel Air and from Emmorton to Plumtree Road—were resurfaced with macadam and brought into the state system in 1933. All of modern MD 924 was designated as a southern extension of MD 24 in 1938; MD 24 originally had its southern terminus in Forest Hill.When the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway was under construction in 1986, the old alignment of MD 24 was provisionally marked as a northern segment of MD 755
Maryland Route 755
Maryland Route 755 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Edgewood Road, the state highway runs from an entrance to Aberdeen Proving Ground north to U.S. Route 40 in Edgewood. MD 755 is a part of the National Highway System as an intermodal connector between the Edgewood...
, which is the designation for old MD 24 in Edgewood. MD 924 was assigned to the old alignment of MD 24 between Edgewood and the Bel Air Bypass when MD 24 was moved to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway in 1987. In autumn 2008, the Maryland Transportation Authority
Maryland Transportation Authority
The Maryland Transportation Authority is an independent state agency responsible for financing, constructing, operating, and maintaining eight toll facilities, currently consisting of two toll roads, two tunnels, and four bridges in Maryland...
began a project to build a diamond interchange at MD 24's junction with MD 924 and Tollgate Road just north of I-95. The interchange is expected to open in autumn 2011.
Junction list
The entire route is in Harford CountyHarford County, Maryland
Harford County is a county in the U.S. state of Maryland. In 2010, its population was 244,826. Its county seat is Bel Air. Harford County forms part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.-History:...
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!Location
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!Destinations
!Notes
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|Edgewood
Edgewood, Maryland
Edgewood is a census-designated place in Harford County, Maryland, United States. The population was 23,378 at the 2000 census.-History:Pooles Island Light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.-Geography:...
|0.00
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|Southern terminus; interchange under construction
|-
|rowspan=6|Bel Air
Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland
The town of Bel Air is the county seat of Harford County, Maryland, United States. According to the 2000 census the population of the town was 10,080. In 2009 the town's estimated population was 10,368...
|5.20
|Bond Street
|South end of MD 924 one-way pair
|-
|5.45
|
|South end of concurrency with US 1 Business
|-
|5.51
|
|Western terminus of westbound direction of MD 22; Churchville Road heads west as unsigned MD 922E
|-
|5.95
|
|North end of MD 924 one-way pair
|-
|6.02
|
|North end of concurrency with US 1 Business
|-
|7.34
|
|Northern terminus; partial cloverleaf interchange