History
Joppa Road was originally an Indian trail and was still used as such as late as 1697.
In 1810, Joppa Road became the Baltimore-York Turnpike.
Joppa Road also served as a connection between Riderwood and Joppa.
The name "Joppa Road" came from the fact that the road linked Towson and Perry Hall to Joppa, the former county seat.
The portion of East Joppa Road from York Road in Towson east to Belair Road was designated Maryland Route 148 until 1962. Joppa Road's removal from the Maryland State Highway system reflected the partial completion of the Baltimore Beltway (Interstate 695) during that year. At the time, there existed in Maryland an effort to keep the total mileage of state-maintained roads in a given county fixed. Because the Beltway represented a significant addition state-maintained highway mileage in Baltimore County, and because Joppa Road more or less paralleled the northern part of the new roadway, Baltimore County agreed to assume control of Joppa Road in 1962, thereby ending the road's state designation.
Read more about this topic: Joppa Road
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set in. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)
“The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)