History
The portion of MD 273 west of Fair Hill was marked for improvement as one of the original state roads by the Maryland State Roads Commission in 1909. The state road continued west from MD 273's present terminus near Rising Sun along the present and old alignments of US 1 to the Conowingo Bridge over the Susquehanna River. By 1910, portions of this state road were under construction between Oakwood and Octoraro Creek and from the east town limit of Rising Sun to about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Sylmar Road. Both of those segments were completed in 1911; in addition, another section was under construction from east of Sylmar Road to Calvert. The state road was completed from the Conowingo Bridge to Oakwood in 1914 and under construction from Calvert toward Blue Ball in 1915.
The gap between Octoraro Creek and the east limit of Rising Sun was under construction in 1919 and completed by 1921, providing an all-weather road between the Conowingo Bridge and halfway between Calvert and Blue Ball. The section of MD 273 between Appleton and the Delaware state line was also paved by 1921. The western section of modern road was extended through Blue Ball by 1923. The remaining highway between Calvert and Fair Hill was constructed between 1924 and 1926. The final piece of MD 273 was completed between Fair Hill and Appleton in 1930. US 1 was assigned to the section of the state road west of Sylmar Road and MD 273 was later marked on the eastern portion to Newark. MD 273 was also marked on the portion of the original state road between the defunct Conowingo Bridge and Octoraro Creek—Old Conowingo Road, Ragan Road, and Connelly Road—left behind when US 1 was moved to a new alignment serving Conowingo Dam in 1928.
What is now MD 273 west of Sylmar Road was improved through widening and relocations to improve curves between 1952 and 1956. MD 273 was extended west through Rising Sun to its present western terminus in 1957 when US 1 was moved to the Rising Sun Bypass. MD 273 was relocated through Calvert starting in 1956, leaving behind Brick Meetinghouse Road. The portion of MD 273 west of Octoraro Creek was transferred to county maintenance in 1959. MD 273 was realigned to a perpendicular intersection with US 1 at its western terminus in 2001. Rising Sun Road west of the intersection was retained to serve as a ramp from northbound US 1 to eastbound MD 273 and was designated MD 273A. The roundabout at the junction of MD 273 and MD 276 was constructed in 2003.
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