Tag: Baltimore Turnpike

Wikipedia says: The Washington Turnpike was chartered in 1796, but no road building ever occurred. It was not until the Washington and Baltimore Turnpike was chartered in 1812 that construction began along a 60-foot (18 m) right-of-way between the corner of Pratt and Eutaw streets, then at the western city limits of Baltimore, southwest along the old dirt road to the District of Columbia boundary southwest of Bladensburg.[6] In 1817, a timber toll bridge replaced Norwood’s Ferry in Elkridge Landing. The Washington and Baltimore Turnpike had its chartered revoked in 1865 and the highway was turned over to the supervision of the counties. The toll bridge at Elkridge was sold to the counties in 1869.