Maryland Route 156
State highway in Harford County, Maryland, known as Aldino Rd
Maryland Route 156 (MD 156) is a state highway located in Harford County in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Aldino Road, the state highway runs 3.92 miles (6.31 km) from MD 22 near Churchville east to MD 155 near Hopewell Village. MD 156 provides access to the Harford County Airport in the unincorporated community of Aldino. The state highway, which was originally designated part of MD 155, was built as a modern highway by 1910 and rebuilt in the 1920s. MD 156 received its present designation in 1952 when MD 155 and MD 156 swapped paths.
Route description
MD 156 begins at an oblique intersection with MD 22 (Churchville Road) in Churchville. Access is only permitted from westbound MD 156 to westbound MD 22 and from eastbound MD 22 to eastbound MD 156. The movements to connect with MD 22 in the direction of Aberdeen are made via the Aldino Road Spur, which is unsigned MD 156A. MD 156 heads east as a two-lane undivided road through farmland. The state highway provides access to the Harford County Airport in the hamlet of Aldino and intersects Chapel Road, which heads south toward Havre de Grace and passes the historic homes Chestnut Ridge and Winsted. MD 156 crosses Swan Creek before it reaches its eastern terminus at MD 155 (Level Road) near Hopewell Village.
“Maryland Route 156” enters the record as state highway in Harford County, Maryland, known as Aldino Rd. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Maryland, Route and State can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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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 Q2449522. The first chronological checks are 1910 and 1952.
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This entry incorporates text from “Maryland Route 156” 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.