Maryland Route 19
State highway in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, US
Maryland Route 19 (MD 19) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for much of its length as Roberts Station Road, the highway runs 8.60 miles (13.84 km) from MD 213 in Church Hill east to MD 313 at Ingleside. MD 19 runs through central Queen Anne's County, connecting both communities with U.S. Route 301 (US 301) near the road's namesake community. The highway was one of the original state roads marked for improvement in 1909 and was paved in the mid-1910s. MD 19 was widened and extended to its present eastern terminus in the early 1950s. The state highway was extended to its present western terminus in 1970.
Route description
MD 19 begins at an intersection with MD 213 (Church Hill Road) north of the town of Church Hill. The state highway heads south as two-lane undivided Main Street into the town limits, passing to the southwest of the historic home Bishopton and intersecting MD 300 (Sudlersville Road). In the center of town, east of St. Luke's Church, MD 19 turns east onto Walnut Street; Main Street continues south as unsigned MD 19A to MD 213.
The public source identifies “Maryland Route 19” as state highway in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, US. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Maryland, Route and State.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2305706. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1909 and 1970.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Maryland Route 19” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.