Maryland Route 20

Maryland Route 20 (MD 20) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs 13.77 miles (22.16 km) from Beach Road and Lawton Avenue in Rock Hall east to MD 291 in Chestertown. MD 20, which connects Chestertown with several villages in western Kent County, was designated one of the original state roads to be improved by the Maryland State Roads Commission in 1909. The first section of the highway was completed near Fairlee in 1915. The highway east to Chestertown and southwest to Rock Hall was completed in the late 1910s. MD 20 was relocated south of Fairlee in the mid-1920s, at Fairlee in the mid-1950s, and in Rock Hall in the mid-1960s. The eastern terminus was rolled back from downtown Chestertown to MD 291 in the late 1980s. Another section of MD 20 was constructed in southeastern Baltimore County between Fort Howard and Baltimore in the early 1920s. The two MD 20s were connected by a ferry across the Chesapeake Bay in the mid-1920s. The western MD 20 was bypassed by MD 151 from Edgemere to Baltimore in the early 1940s and removed from the state highway system in the late 1990s.