Maryland Route 310
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Maryland Route 310 is a state highway
State highway
State highway, state road or state route can refer to one of three related concepts, two of them related to a state or provincial government in a country that is divided into states or provinces :#A...

 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...

. Known as Cayots Corner Road, the state highway runs 3.96 miles (6.4 km) from MD 213
Maryland Route 213
Maryland Route 213 is a state highway located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the United States. The route runs from Maryland Route 662 in Wye Mills, Queen Anne's County north to the Pennsylvania border in Cecil County, where it continues into that state as Pennsylvania Route 841...

 in Cayots east to the Delaware
Delaware
Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...

 state line east of St. Augustine
St. Augustine, Maryland
St. Augustine is an unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland, United States.Land rights to the area were granted to merchant Augustine Herman by Lord Baltimore prior to 1686 but the Herman family was never able to lay proper claim to the title....

, where the highway continues as Churchtown Road, in southern Cecil County
Cecil County, Maryland
Cecil County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is part of the Delaware Valley. It was named for Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore , who was the first Proprietary Governor of the colony of Maryland from 1632 until his death in 1675. The county seat is Elkton. The newspaper...

. MD 310 was built east of St. Augustine by 1921 and west to what was then U.S. Route 213 (US 213) by 1939. Cayots Corner was the sharp turn on US 213 at its intersection with MD 310 before US 213 was relocated to eliminate the turn in the mid 1950s.

Route description

MD 310 begins at an intersection with MD 213 (Augustine Herman Highway) in the hamlet of Cayots. Town Point Road heads west from the junction as a county highway. MD 310 heads east as a two-lane road past a spur road that is the old alignment of MD 213 at the highway's namesake corner. The state highway passes through farmland, intersecting MD 342
Maryland Route 342
Maryland Route 342 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as St. Augustine Road, the state highway runs from MD 310 in St. Augustine north to George Street, which is one of the segments of unsigned Maryland Route 537, in Chesapeake City in southern Cecil County...

 (St. Augustine Road) in the community of St. Augustine. MD 310 reaches its eastern terminus just east of Old Telegraph Road at the Delaware state line. The highway continues east as Churchtown Road.

History

MD 310 was paved east of St. Augustine Road as a state-aid road by 1915. The section west to US 213 was completed by 1939. Cayots Corner was a right-angle turn for US 213 where the federal highway originally intersected MD 310. That turn and a sharp turn at Town Point Road just to the west were bypassed when US 213 was moved to a new alignment to the north and west around 1956. MD 310 was then extended to its present western terminus.

Junction list

The entire route is in Cecil County
Cecil County, Maryland
Cecil County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is part of the Delaware Valley. It was named for Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore , who was the first Proprietary Governor of the colony of Maryland from 1632 until his death in 1675. The county seat is Elkton. The newspaper...

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|Cayots
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|Western terminus
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|St. Augustine
St. Augustine, Maryland
St. Augustine is an unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland, United States.Land rights to the area were granted to merchant Augustine Herman by Lord Baltimore prior to 1686 but the Herman family was never able to lay proper claim to the title....


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|3.96
|Churchtown Road east
|Eastern terminus; Delaware state line

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