MD 45 also connects the northern Baltimore County communities of Hereford and Parkton.

A second, disjoint portion of MD 45 was assigned from north of Parkton to the Pennsylvania state line when the Baltimore – Harrisburg Expressway was completed between Parkton and the York area in 1959.

When the final section of the US 111 freeway was completed between Hereford and Parkton in 1960, MD 45 was assigned to the stretch of York Road between those communities.

When the Maryland State Roads Commission put together a state road system in 1909, York Road from North Avenue in Baltimore to Parkton was designated one of the original state roads to be improved.

York Road from Parkton to the Pennsylvania state line was paved in concrete in two sections completed in 1921 and 1923.

Other bridges included grade separations at the crossings of the Northern Central Railway at Cockeysville and Parkton built around 1930.

Thus, the topography is mostly level to undulating coastal plain, largely made up of sandhills and coastal dunes with elevations above mean sea level that vary from 60 feet in the extreme southeastern portion of the county to 250 feet in the north, to the west of Parkton, North Carolina.

The Pettit Grain and Potato Company did an annual business of about $ 400, 000 and had elevators or warehouses at Verndale, Leaf River, Wadena, Aldrich, Philbrook, Hewitt, Parkton, Menahga, Henning, Sebeka, Bluffton, New York Mills, Deer Creek, Park Rapids, Battle Lake, and Staples.

Parkton is a town in Robeson County, North Carolina, in the Lumberton metro area, in the United States.

Parkton is located at ( 34. 902911 ,-79. 010662 ).

Parkton has many churches of differing denominations.

The old railroad station in Parkton.

The improved macadam road was extended to Parkton by 1919.

By 1930, US 111 had a width of from inside Baltimore to Towson, from Towson to Parkton, and from Parkton to the Pennsylvania state line.

By 1934, the Maryland State Roads Commission recommended widening the U. S. Highway to from Towson to Cockeysville and to from Parkton to the Pennsylvania state line.

It includes Hereford, Parkton, Monkton, Freeland, Sparks, White Hall, Jacksonville, Upperco, and Glyndon.

Hereford High School, Parkton has the only agriscience program in the county along with Hereford Middle School.

* 1961 – Dave Mustaine, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor ( Metallica, Megadeth, and MD. 45 )

Mike Clark joined a band called Creeper, while Jimmy DeGrasso joined Dave Mustaine's side project MD. 45, and eventually replaced Nick Menza in Megadeth who recruited guitarist Anthony Gallo ( Suicidal Tendencies, Los Cycos ) for his solo record entitled " Life After Deth ".

MD. 45 was a side project of Megadeth guitarist / frontman Dave Mustaine, Fear guitarist / vocalist Lee Ving on singing duties, Electric Love Hogs and future Goldfinger bassist Kelly LeMieux and former Suicidal Tendencies member Jimmy DeGrasso ( who later joined Megadeth for Risk and The World Needs A Hero ) on drums.

Dave Mustaine's reversed are MD and Lee Ving's are VL which is 45 in Roman numerals hence the name MD. 45 ", although 45 is more properly represented in Roman numerals as XLV, acknowledged in a later answer.

Ving has also sung for the band MD. 45, which also featured Dave Mustaine of Megadeth and Jimmy DeGrasso of Suicidal Tendencies.

In 1956, the next portion of the road between the Harrisburg Expressway and MD 45 ( York Road ) opened.

Several more segments of the Baltimore Beltway would be built in the following years, with the section from MD 168 ( Nursery Road ) to the Glen Burnie Bypass ( present-day I-97 ) opening in 1957 ; the portions from MD 45 to MD 542 ( Loch Raven Boulevard ), MD 7 ( Old Philadelphia Road ) to US 40 ( Pulaski Highway ), and from MD 168 to US 40 ( Baltimore National Pike ) opening in 1958 ; the segment from MD 2 ( Ritchie Highway ) to the Glen Burnie Bypass completed in 1960 ; the portion from US 1 ( Belair Road ) to MD 7 finished in 1961 ; and the portions from MD 542 to US 1 and from US 40 to MD 25 finished in 1962.

The tolls for the section of the road between I-370 and MD 97 are to vary by time of day, ranging from 60 ¢ at night to $ 1. 45 at rush hour.

Maryland Route 45 ( MD 45 ) is a state highway in the U. S. state of Maryland.

MD 45 is the primary highway between Downtown Baltimore and Towson, the county seat of Baltimore County.

The highway next intersects MD 210, a major north – south route from southern D. C. to Indian Head in Charles County, Maryland.

I-695 near exit # 23, northwest of Baltimore, Maryland | BaltimoreFrom here, I-695 heads northeast as an eight lane road and enters Pikesville, where it intersects MD 140 ( Reisterstown Road ) at a single-point urban interchange.

MD 200 then curves slightly more eastward toward Aspen Hill, where the freeway intersects MD 182 ( Layhill Road ), shortly after entering the Northwest Branch Recreational Park.

The state highway continues north through the densely-populated suburban area of Lutherville where the highway intersects Seminary Road, which heads west as MD 131.

MD 45 meets the western end of MD 145 ( Ashland Road ) before arriving in Hunt Valley, where the highway intersects Shawan Road at Hunt Valley Town Center.

The state highway intersects MD 439 ( Old York Road ) and Freeland Road in the community of Maryland Line before reaching its northern terminus at the Pennsylvania state line.

Interstate 270 northbound at Maryland Route 118 | MD 118 interchange in Germantown, Maryland | Germantown. Past this interchange, I-270 leaves Rockville and heads into Gaithersburg, where it intersects Interstate 370, a road that provides access to a park and ride lot at the Shady Grove Metro station.

Then MD 100 intersects with US 1 followed by an exit for Dorsey MARC station.

MD 100 then intersects with MD 170 ( Telegraph Road ) where the road becomes 6 lanes.

Solomons Island Road intersects MD 2N ( Calvert Cliffs Parkway ), which provides access to the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant and another segment of MD 765 which runs to the west of the route on Saw Mill Road.

MD 2 / MD 4 turns north as it intersects Maryland Route 506 ( Sixes Road ) and a different segment of MD 765 known as MD 765A branches off to the east of MD 2 / MD 4 onto Main Street as the road approaches Prince Frederick.

A short distance past MD 765, Solomons Island Road intersects Maryland Route 402 ( Dares Beach Road ).

Shortly after splitting from MD 4, the route intersects the eastern terminus of Maryland Route 262 ( Lower Marlboro Road ) before heading into woodland with areas of residences and businesses.

It intersects Friendship Road / Sansbury Road at a roundabout, which connects to Maryland Route 261, before intersecting MD 778 again.

A short distance later, MD 2 intersects MD 648 ( Baltimore-Annapolis Road ), forming a brief concurrency with that route before MD 648 heads to the east of it again.