 Maryland Route 35 | ||||
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| Ellerslie Road | ||||
 Maryland Route 35 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained byMDSHA | ||||
| Length | 2.37 mi[1] (3.81 km) | |||
| Existed | 1927–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  MD 36 inCorriganville | |||
| North end |  PA 96 inEllerslie | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Maryland | |||
| Counties | Allegany | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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Maryland Route 35 (MD 35) is astate highway in theU.S. state ofMaryland. Known asEllerslie Road, the state highway runs 2.37 miles (3.81 km) north fromMD 36 inCorriganville to thePennsylvania state line inEllerslie. There the highway continues north asPennsylvania Route 96 (PA 96).
MD 35 was constructed in the late 1910s and was one of the original signed state highways in 1927. The state highway runs through the valley ofWills Creek, an important passage for the railroads beginning in the mid 19th century.
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MD 35 begins at an intersection with MD 36 (Mount Savage Road) in Corriganville. The state highway immediately intersects Kreigbaum Road, which is unsignedMD 831C. After leaving Corriganville, MD 35 heads north as a two-lane undivided road lined with scattered residences. The state highway runs through a narrow valley betweenWills Mountain to the east and Little Allegheny Mountain to the west, paralleled by Wills Creek andCSX'sKeystone Subdivision railroad line. MD 35 passes through Ellerslie, within which the highway crosses a branch of Wills Creek, before reaching its northern terminus at the Pennsylvania state line. The highway continues north as PA 96 (Hyndman Road) towardHyndman.[1][2]
MD 35 is a part of theNational Highway System as a principal arterial for its entire length.[1][3]
The valley of Wills Creek north of Corriganville has a significant place in railroad history as not only part of the ascent from Cumberland to the Summit of the Alleghenies atSand Patch but also part of the route betweenFrostburg andBedford, Pennsylvania. No less than three different railroads used the part of the valley north of Corriganville in the late 19th century:Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad, andWestern Maryland Railway.[4] The first road built through the valley, the Creek Road, was present by 1898.[4][5] This road was built adjacent to Wills Creek and remains today as Beach View Drive in Corriganville and Schellsburg Road in Ellerslie.[2][5] Between 1917 and 1919 a new road was built by theMaryland State Roads Commission following the present alignment on the hillside above the creek.[6][7][8] In 1927, this road was one of the original signed Maryland state numbered highways. The MD 35 designation originally extended further south along what is today MD 36 toU.S. Route 40 just above theCumberland Narrows.[9] The southern terminus of MD 35 was rolled back to Corriganville and replaced by MD 36 between 1939 and 1946.[10][11]
The entire route is inAllegany County.
| Location | mi [1] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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| Corriganville | 0.00 | 0.00 | MD 36 (Mount Savage Road) –Cumberland,Mount Savage | Southern terminus | |
| Ellerslie | 2.37 | 3.81 |  PA 96 north (Hyndman Road) –Hyndman | Pennsylvania state line; northern terminus | |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
