Maryland Route 20 was the designation for North Point Road, which originally ran from the tracks of an
interurban near
Fort Howard north through
Edgemere and
Dundalk in southeastern
Baltimore County to
US 40 in
Baltimore. MD 20 was the main highway between Baltimore and
Sparrows Point, which was accessed by
MD 151 (Sparrows Point Road) from Edgemere. The interurban line connected Baltimore with
Bay Shore Park, an amusement park that operated between 1906 and 1947 within what is now
North Point State Park. As early as 1923 and late as 1928, a ferry connected Bay Shore Park with
Rock Hall, thus briefly and indirectly connecting this MD 20 with the extant
MD 20 in
Kent County. The first section of MD 20 was constructed as a concrete road from Sparrows Point Road in Edgemere to Trappe Road at the hamlet of North Point in what is now Dundalk by 1921. The concrete road was extended from North Point to Baltimore in 1922 and 1923; those same years, a macadam road was built from Sparrows Point Road to the interurban tracks near Bay Shore Park. By 1934, MD 20 was proposed to be expanded from a width of to from Baltimore to MD 151 in Edgemere to serve the Sparrows Point industrial complex. In addition, MD 20 from MD 151 to the interurban near Bay Shore Park was proposed to be widened from to . The Edgemere portion of MD 20 was bypassed when a new four-lane divided highway—Sparrows Point Boulevard and North Point Boulevard—was completed from Sparrows Point to Wise Avenue in Dundalk in 1940 and 1941. Between 1942 and 1944, the remainder of North Point Boulevard was constructed from Wise Avenue to Baltimore as a
wartime access project, including a
cloverleaf interchange at
MD 150. In addition, Erdman Avenue was extended as a four-lane divided highway to connect with North Point Boulevard, bypassing the segment of North Point Road between the boulevard and US 40 in the city of Baltimore. By 1946, MD 151 was applied to the four-lane divided highway connecting Baltimore with Sparrows Point, and MD 20 was assigned to four mainline segments and a spur of the old North Point Road: • MD 20B was the designation for the section of North Point Road from MD 151 and Cove Road in Dundalk northwest to a
right-in/right-out interchange with eastbound MD 150 at the MD 150–MD 151 cloverleaf. The portion of MD 20 from near Fort Howard to Sparrows Point Road in Edgemere was resurfaced with bituminous concrete in 1969. • MD 20E was an unnamed spur from MD 20C to a dead end near MD 20C's northern end near Cove Road. The highway began as a loop ramp from southbound MD 151, crossed east over both directions of MD 151, and ended at MD 20D. What became MD 20F was constructed as one of several ramps built to connect MD 151 and MD 20 with the new Bethlehem Boulevard in 1957 and 1958. However, the road did not receive the MD 20F designation until 1976. MD 20F was replaced by an eastward extension of newly designated
MD 158 (Bethlehem Boulevard) when Bethlehem Boulevard was transferred from
Bethlehem Steel control to state maintenance through an October 17, 1989, road transfer agreement. Former MD 20F was destroyed by the reconstruction of
I-695 and its junction with MD 151 and MD 158 completed in 1999. ==MD 27 (1927–1934)==