Maryland Route 305

Maryland Route 305
Hope Road
Route information
Maintained by MDSHA
Length:	5.08 mi[1] (8.18 km)
Major junctions
West end:	MD 213 in Centreville
	US 301 near Centreville
East end:	Dean Road / Hayden Road in Hope
Location
Counties:	Queen Anne's
Highway system
Maryland highway system Interstate • US • State • Minor • Former • Turnpikes ← MD 304 MD 306 →

Maryland Route 305 (MD 305) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Hope Road, the state highway runs 5.08 miles (8.18 km) from MD 213 in Centreville east to an intersection with Hayden Road and Dean Road in Hope east of its intersection with U.S. Route 301 (US 301) in central Queen Anne's County. MD 305 was constructed from a railroad crossing near the present US 301 intersection east to Hope in the early 1910s. The highway was completed when the section between Centreville and the railroad crossing was built in the early 1920s. Another segment of MD 305, unconnected from the present section, existed near Ingleside from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s.

Route description

MD 305 begins at an intersection with MD 213 (Liberty Street) in the northern part of Centreville. The state highway heads east as two-lane Hope Road through a residential area. Upon leaving the town limits, MD 305 passes through farmland. The state highway crosses Three Bridges Branch before intersecting US 301 (Blue Star Memorial Highway) at an acute angle at the hamlet of Carville Station. MD 305 crosses the Centreville Branch of the Northern Line of the Maryland and Delaware Railroad at grade just east of US 301, then continues east through farmland to the hamlet of Hope, where the state highway ends at an intersection with Dean Road and Hayden Road. Hope Road continues east as a county highway toward MD 405.^[1][2]

History

The first section of MD 305 to be built was from the railroad crossing at Carville Station east to the highway's present eastern terminus at Hope, which was paved as a state aid road by 1915.^[3] The highway between Centreville and the railroad crossing was paved in 1923.^[4] In 1946, a second, unconnected section of MD 305 was designated on recently-improved Roe Ingleside Road between Carter Road and MD 19 in Ingleside.^[5][6] The Ingleside segment of MD 305 was returned to county maintenance by 1966.^[7]

Junction list

The entire route is in Queen Anne's County.

Location	Mile[1]	Intersection	Notes
Centreville	0.00	MD 213 (Liberty Street) – Church Hill, Wye Mills	Western terminus
	2.92	US 301 (Blue Star Memorial Highway) – Bay Bridge, Wilmington
Hope	5.08	Dean Road south / Hayden Road north / Hope Road east	Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Highway Location Reference: Queen Anne's County" (PDF). Maryland State Highway Administration. 2009. http://www.marylandroads.com/Location/2009_QUEENANNES.pdf. Retrieved 2010-09-28. 
2. ^ Google, Inc. Google Maps – Maryland Route 305 (Map). Cartography by Google, Inc. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Hope+Rd&daddr=MD-305+E%2FHope+Rd&geocode=FdrZUwIdr293-w%3BFam6UwId9Mt4-w&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=39.041857,-75.969708&sspn=0.001912,0.004823&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=13. Retrieved 2010-09-28. 
3. ^ Report of the State Roads Commission of Maryland. 1912-1915. Baltimore: Maryland State Roads Commission. May 1915. p. 124. http://www.archive.org/details/annualreportsofs1912mary. Retrieved 2010-09-28. 
4. ^ Maryland Geological Survey. Map of Maryland: Showing State Road System and State Aid Roads (Map) (1923 ed.). 
5. ^ Report of the State Roads Commission of Maryland. 1945-1946. Baltimore: Maryland State Roads Commission. 1947-02-01. p. 90. http://www.archive.org/details/reportofstateroa1945mary. Retrieved 2010-09-28. 
6. ^ Maryland State Roads Commission. Maryland: Official Highway Map (Map) (1948 ed.). 
7. ^ Maryland State Roads Commission. Maryland: Official Highway Map (Map) (1966 ed.). 

External links

• MD 305 @ MDRoads.com