Route Description
MD 304 begins at the intersection of Corsica Neck Road and Spider Web Road on the Corsica Neck peninsula west of Centreville. The state highway heads east as two-lane Corsica Neck Road through a mix of farmland and forest. MD 304 crosses Earl Creek then crosses the Corsica River to enter the town of Centreville, where the highway is municipally-maintained and passes through the Centreville Historic District. The highway's name changes to Chesterfield Avenue and it passes through a residential area with scattered county offices. In the downtown area one block south of the Queen Anne's County Courthouse, MD 304 meets MD 213, which follows a one-way pair through the town, Liberty Street southbound and Commerce Street northbound. MD 304 continues east as Water Street, crossing the Centreville Branch of the Northern Line of the Maryland and Delaware Railroad. At Tilghman Street, the highway's name changes to Railroad Avenue. MD 304 leaves Centreville just east of Kidwell Avenue.
MD 304 continues east through farmland as Ruthsburg Road, passing Queen Anne's County High School and Centreville Middle School before reaching the intersection with US 301 (Blue Star Memorial Highway). The intersection with US 301 is a superstreet intersection in which MD 304 traffic must turn right, use U-turn ramps along US 301, and turn right again to continue on MD 304. The state highway officially continues as MD 304A and intersects MD 481 (Damsontown Road) in the hamlet of Ruthsburg. MD 304 heads northeast and crosses German Branch before intersecting MD 405 (Price Station Road). Shortly after the highway enters Caroline County by crossing Mason Branch, the highway, now named Bridgetown Road, reaches its eastern terminus at MD 312 (Oakland Road) in the village of Bridgetown. Bridgetown Road continues east as a county highway toward Goldsboro.
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