History
Paper Mill Road from Gunpowder Falls to Jacksonville was constructed as a 9-foot (2.7 m) wide concrete road by 1915. This road was widened and resurfaced in macadam from the eastern edge of the Loch Raven Reservoir park reservation at Phoenix Road to Old York Road west of Jacksonville around 1933. Sweet Air Road was constructed from Jacksonville to Manor Road at Sweet Air by 1923. The paved road was extended east from Sweet Air to Bradshaw, including what is now MD 165 south of MD 145, between 1924 and 1927. MD 145 was extended west to MD 45 around 1983 when Paper Mill Road and Ashland Road through the reservoir area were transferred from city to state maintenance.
Bridges have crossed Gunpowder Falls at the site of MD 145's modern crossing since at least the 1770s. The road gets its name from the paper mill constructed at the crossing in 1850. Early in the 20th century, the waterway was crossed by the Paper Mill Covered Bridge. In 1922, the Baltimore City Department of Transportation, which maintains most of the roads within the reservoir park area, replaced the covered bridge with an arch through truss bridge in preparation for the filling of the expanded Loch Raven Reservoir. Construction began on the present Paper Mill Road Bridge in 1998; the new bridge opened in 2000. The city gave the old bridge to Baltimore County; the county refurbished the bridge in 2007 to preserve it as a historical landmark and prepare it for recreational use.
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