 Maryland Route 194 | ||||
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 Maryland Route 194 highlighted in red | ||||
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| Maintained byMDSHA | ||||
| Length | 23.87 mi[1] (38.42 km) | |||
| Existed | 1956–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  MD 26 inCeresville | |||
| Major intersections | ||||
| North end |  PA 194 near Taneytown | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Maryland | |||
| Counties | Frederick,Carroll | |||
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Maryland Route 194 (MD 194) is astate highway in the U.S. state ofMaryland. The state highway runs 23.87 miles (38.42 km) fromMD 26 inCeresville north to thePennsylvania state line nearTaneytown, where the highway continues asPennsylvania Route 194 (PA 194) towardHanover. MD 194 is the main highway betweenFrederick and Hanover; the state highway connects the towns ofWalkersville andWoodsboro in northeasternFrederick County withKeymar and Taneytown in northwesternCarroll County. MD 194 was blazed as a migration route in the 18th century and a pair ofturnpikes in Frederick County in the 19th century, one of which was the last private toll road in Maryland. The state highway, which was originally designated MD 71, was built as a modern highway in Frederick County in the mid-1920s and constructed as Francis Scott Key Highway in Carroll County in the late 1920s and early 1930s. MD 194 received its modern route number in 1956 as part of a three-route number swap. The state highway's bypasses of Walkersville and Woodsboro opened in the early 1980s and mid-1990s, respectively.
MD 194 begins at an intersection with MD 26 (Liberty Road) in Ceresville. The roadway continues south as MD 26, which crosses theMonocacy River on its way toward Frederick. MD 26 heads east from the intersection as a two-lane undivided road towardLibertytown. MD 194 heads north as Woodsboro Pike, which starts as a four-lanedivided highway but reduces to a two-lane undivided road as the highway passes through the suburban communities ofDiscovery and Spring Garden, where the state highway passes the historicWoodsboro and Frederick Turnpike Company Tollhouse. While passing east ofWalkersville High School, the state highway enters the town of Walkersville and the highway's old alignment, Frederick Street, splits to the north. MD 194 collects the other end of Frederick Street and passes between residential subdivisions before leaving the town at the highway's intersection with Devilbiss Bridge Road and Daysville Road. The former road heads west toward the historicHarris Farm; the latter highway leads to the 19th centuryCrum Road Bridge.[1][2]
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MD 194 parallels theMaryland Midland Railway's north–south line, Israel Creek, and Laurel Hill north to Woodsboro. At the south end of the town, Main Street, which is unsignedMD 194A, continues straight north while MD 194 veers northeast to bypass the town. Apark and ride lot is located at this intersection. The state highway starts torun concurrently withMD 550 at Woodsboro Road, which heads east as MD 550 toward Libertytown. On the north side of town, MD 550 heads west as Woodsboro Creagerstown Road, which meets the northern end of Main Street before heading northwest towardCreagerstown andThurmont. MD 194 veers northeast and has a grade crossing with the railroad track atNew Midway, where the highway intersects Legore Road, which leads to theLeGore Bridge. The state highway passes through the village ofLadiesburg before crossing Little Pipe Creek, one of the tributaries ofDouble Pipe Creek, into Carroll County.[1][2]
MD 194 continues as Francis Scott Key Highway through Keymar, where the north–south and east–west lines of the Maryland Midland Railway intersect. The state highway has a grade crossing of the east–west rail line and intersects the eastern terminus ofMD 77 (Middleburg Road). In the hamlet of Bruceville, MD 194 crosses Big Pipe Creek and intersects Keysville Bruceville Road, which heads northwest toward the village ofKeysville andTerra Rubra, the birthplace ofFrancis Scott Key. The state highway passes the historicWinemiller Family Farm andKeefer-Brubaker Farm on its way to Taneytown. MD 194, which becomes Frederick Street, crosses a branch of Piney Creek and passes theLudwick Rudisel Tannery House. In the center of theTaneytown Historic District, the state highway intersectsMD 140 (Baltimore Street), where MD 194 becomes York Street. After leaving Taneytown, the state highway becomes Francis Scott Key Highway again as it heads through farmland. MD 194 crosses Piney Creek before reaching its northern terminus at the Pennsylvania state line. The roadway continues north as PA 194 (Frederick Pike) toward the boroughs ofLittlestown and Hanover.[1][2]
MD 194 is a part of theNational Highway System as a principal arterial from its southern terminus in Ceresville to Daysville Road in Walkersville and within the city of Taneytown.[1][3]
 Maryland Route 71 | |
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| Location | Ceresville–Taneytown |
| Existed | 1927–1956 |
In the 18th century, the corridor of what is now MD 194 was the Hanover–Frederick portion of the Monocacy Road, a migration route that connectedPhiladelphia andWinchester, Virginia, viaYork, Frederick,Boonsboro, andWilliamsport.[4] The Frederick County portion of the highway later became the path of a pair of turnpikes. The Woodsboro and Double Pipe Creek Turnpike connected the namesake town and creek; the Woodsboro and Frederick Turnpike extended from Woodsboro south to the junction with the Liberty and Frederick Turnpike in Ceresville. The two turnpikes issuing from Ceresville were connected to Frederick by the Frederick and Woodsboro Turnpike.[5] The Woodsboro and Frederick Turnpike was the last privately maintained toll road in Maryland when it was purchased by the Maryland State Roads Commission, the predecessor to theMaryland State Highway Administration, in 1921.[6][7]
What is now MD 194 was originally designated MD 71.[8] The roads commission resurfaced the turnpikes'macadam surface from Ceresville to Little Pipe Creek to a width of 15 feet (4.6 m) by 1926. That same year, 1 mile (1.6 km) of concrete road was constructed north fromMD 32 (now MD 140) in Taneytown.[7][9] In 1930, construction began to complete the concrete road that MD 71 would follow through Carroll County.[10][11] The state highway was completed in five sections from a short distance north of Big Pipe Creek to the Pennsylvania state line in 1933.[8][11][12] The Carroll County section of MD 71 was dedicated as Francis Scott Key Highway in 1931.[13] The two sections of MD 71 were separated by a county-maintained segment of highway through Keymar.[8] This gap in the state road system remained through at least 1949.[14]
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MD 71 received a new steel I-beam bridge over Big Pipe Creek in 1940; this bridge was replaced in 2005.[15][16] The state highway was widened through Taneytown in 1948.[17] MD 71's present steel I-beam bridge over Little Pipe Creek at the county line was started in 1953 and completed in 1954 along with 1 mile (1.6 km) of approach roads. The state highway was reconstructed and widened from the Little Pipe Creek Bridge to New Midway in 1952 and 1953.[18] Reconstruction of the highway commenced from New Midway to Woodsboro in 1953, from Woodsboro to Ceresville in 1956, and from Taneytown to the Pennsylvania state line in 1957.[18][19]
In 1956, MD 71 was involved in a three-route number change involving highways in three different areas of the state. MD 71 was reassigned to the Blue Star Memorial Highway then under construction fromQueenstown to theDelaware state line inWarwick; this designation lasted only three years beforeU.S. Route 301 was rerouted onto the highway in 1959.[20][21] MD 71 was designated MD 194 to match the adjacent numbered highway in Pennsylvania. MD 194 had previously been assigned to Flower Avenue inTakoma Park; Flower Avenue was then designatedMD 787.[20][22]
MD 194's bypass of Walkersville was completed around 1981.[23] The state highway's bypass of Woodsboro was under construction by 1995 and completed in 1997; Main Street through town was designated MD 194A.[24][25] MD 550, which ran concurrently with MD 194 along Main Street, joined the latter route on the new bypass and on a bypass section of its own at the north end of town.[25] In conjunction with the reconstruction of MD 26 as a divided highway from Market Street (then part ofMD 355) in Frederick to Ceresville in 1997, the MD 26–MD 194 intersection was reconfigured so the primary movement through the intersection is between MD 26 to the west and MD 194 to the north; the southernmost portion of MD 194 became an extension of the MD 26 divided highway.[26][27] This configuration was chosen because two-thirds of traffic passing through the intersection was between Frederick and Woodsboro.[27]
| County | Location | mi [1] | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Frederick | Ceresville | 0.00 | 0.00 | MD 26 (Liberty Road) –Frederick,Libertytown | Southern terminus |
| Woodsboro | 5.65 | 9.09 | Main Street north | Unsigned MD 194A | |
| 6.46 | 10.40 |   MD 550 south (Woodsboro Road) –Libertytown | South end of concurrency with MD 550 | ||
| 7.01 | 11.28 |  MD 550 north (Woodsboro Creagerstown Road) –Creagerstown,Thurmont | North end of concurrency with MD 550 | ||
| Carroll | Keymar | 13.33 | 21.45 |   MD 77 west (Middleburg Road) / Middleburg Road east –Thurmont,Middleburg | Eastern terminus of MD 77 |
| Taneytown | 18.66 | 30.03 |  MD 140 (Baltimore Street) –Westminster,Emmitsburg | ||
| | 23.87 | 38.42 | PA 194 north (Frederick Pike) –Littlestown,Hanover | Pennsylvania state line; northern terminus | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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MD 194 has four existing auxiliary routes and two that no longer exist. MD 194A and MD 194B are in Woodsboro. MD 194D and MD 194E are north of Taneytown. Former MD 194C and MD 194F were also north of Taneytown.
