History
MD 243 was constructed as a gravel road in four sections between the early 1920s and early 1930s. The highway was built from MD 5 to Wathen Road around 1923. MD 243 was extended south to Rosebank Road in Compton in 1924. The state highway was extended slightly south to Bayside Road in 1930. Finally, MD 243 was extended south to its present terminus at St. Francis Xavier Church in 1932. MD 243's original northern terminus was adjacent to McIntosh Run, to the east of its present terminus. MD 243's intersection with MD 5 was relocated to form a four-way intersection with Maypole Road by 1978; the segment of old alignment between MD 243 and MD 5 was designated MD 943. This portion MD 943, a number later assigned to Warren Road in Cockeysville in Baltimore County, was removed from the state highway system in 1999.
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