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The Baltimore Pike was an auto trail connecting Baltimore, Maryland, with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Today, parts of the road are signed as U.S. Route 1 (US 1), US 13 , and a small portion of Pennsylvania Route 41 (PA 41).
Pennsylvania Route 97 (PA 97) is one of two Pennsylvania state highways that carries the PA 97 designation; the other PA 97 is in Erie County.This southern PA 97, known for most of its length as Baltimore Pike, runs 9.363 miles (15.068 km) from the Maryland state line near Littlestown, where the highway continues as Maryland Route 97 (MD 97), northwest to U.S. Route 15 (US 15) near Gettysburg.
The road is paralleled by Interstate 95 (I-95, Delaware Turnpike) to the north and U.S. Route 40 (US 40, Pulaski Highway) to the south. The Old Baltimore Pike was built before 1720 and connected Elkton, Maryland, to Christiana. It was a turnpike called the Elk and Christiana Turnpike between 1817 and 1838.
Baltimore and Harford Turnpike: January 3, 1816: Baltimore - Greenwood - Benson; Greenwood - Little Gunpowder Falls [citation needed] Route 147; Long Green Pike Calverton Turnpike: January 16, 1816: Hagers-Town and Conococheague Turnpike: January 27, 1817: Hagerstown - Conococheague: U.S. Route 40: Hager's-Town and Boonsborough Turnpike ...
What is now Baltimore Pike and Baltimore Avenue was originally chartered as the Philadelphia, Brandywine, and New London Turnpike on March 24, 1808, later becoming known as the Delaware County Turnpike. [10] On May 13, 1803, the Philadelphia, Frankford, and Bristol Turnpike was chartered. [11]
Except for the southernmost part of the Baltimore Pike at Nottingham, the Chester County part of old US 1 is still driveable. There is the deadend mentioned above; also, a small part of the Baltimore Pike is permanently blocked by the Herr's Snacks company property. Lincoln Highway in Bucks County in 1922.
Bel Air: 600 Baltimore Pike in Harford Mall. Baltimore: 6901 Security Blvd. in Security Square Mall. ... New Hyde Park: 1526 Union Turnpike. Massapequa: 400 Sunrise Mall. Rochester: 397 Greece ...
In 1817, the Elk and Christiana Turnpike was completed along the path of the Old Post Road; the turnpike operated until 1838, when Old Baltimore Pike reverted to a public road. [3] By the 1920s, the Old Baltimore Pike was supplanted by a parallel highway to the south from Elkton to Wilmington that was chosen as the route of US 40. [5]