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Fifteen Mile Creek Road continues south as an unimproved road through Green Ridge State Forest. US 40 Scenic passes over I-68 and passes by the westbound Exit 62 ramps before intersecting the eastern end of MD 144 (Old National Pike), which heads west as the local complement to the National Freeway.
Old National Pike or Old National Road, and sometimes Old Cumberland Road, Old Route 40, Old U.S. 40 are terms both colloquially and officially applied to bypassed parts of the United States' first federally funded highway (1811), the National Pike—which are essentially the parts of U.S. Route 40 (1920s) west of Baltimore and east of Missouri.
[21] [22] The first 20-foot (6.1 m) wide concrete roadway was constructed from downtown Hagerstown southeast to near Beaver Creek Road in 1938. [22] [23] Surfacing of the remainder of the relocated National Pike was delayed by World War II; construction resumed in 1946 and the new highway opened in 1948. [24] [25] [26]
The Old National Pike Milestones marked each mile of the old National Road in Maryland, an eastern coastal state of the United States, from its dominating city of Baltimore to major towns of western Maryland, as Frederick, and between it and Hagerstown, to Hancock, through to Cumberland in the western panhandle of the state in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
HO-595, National Pike Milestone No. 14 National Pike (US 40), Ellicott City HO-596, National Pike Milestone No. 15 Frederick Road (MD 144), Ellicott City HO-597, National Pike Milestone No. 16 Frederick Road (MD 144), Ellicott City
Southeast of Glenelg at 12793 Folly Quarter Road ... Howard Lodge: Howard Lodge: October 9, 2012 ... Old National Pike Milestones: November 27, 1975
2531 Park Mills Road ... Highland Lodge: October 22, 1998 : 5519 Old National Pike ... Old National Pike Milestones: November 27, 1975
National Hotel (demolished): The National Hotel was on U.S. Route 40 at Maryland Route 495, Grantsville. It was a 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, 19th-century hip-roofed frame structure built about 1842. It was built for Henry Fuller, an innkeeper from Salisbury, Pennsylvania , on the site of the Lehman House, an earlier hostelry.