page_title: Whiskey Bottom Road
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: Whiskey Bottom Road / Route description
caption_attribution_description: English: Whiskey Bottom Road path of 1795
context_page_description: Whiskey Bottom Road is a historic road north of Laurel, Maryland that traverses Anne Arundel and Howard Counties in an area that was first settled by English colonists in the mid-1600s. The road was named in the 1880s in association with one of its residents delivering whiskey after a prohibition vote. With increased residential development after World War II, it was designated a collector road in the 1960s; a community center and park are among the most recent roadside developments.
context_section_description: Whiskey Bottom Road runs through North Laurel, Maryland starting at the later Maryland Route 198 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The road continues westward across U.S. Route 1 and terminates at a dead end just prior to the I-95 and Route 216 interchange in Howard County, Maryland, which were built long after this historic road.
  Disused or renamed sections
  Martenet's 1860 Map of Howard County Maryland, and the 1861 Map of Prince George's County, Maryland, from the Library of Congress, clearly depict the original road.  Approximately 60% of that original has been renamed after being bisected by I-95, then further divided by Maryland Route 198 and I-295.
  Starting from the northwest to the southeast:
  Whiskey Bottom Road once started at the site of the lime kilns at the intersection of modern-day Brown's Bridge Road and Lime Kiln Road in Howard County, Maryland.
  The original path continues on what is now labeled Scaggsville Road in Scaggsville, Maryland.
  Crossing the Columbia Turnpike built in 1810, the road continues Southeast until it terminates at the present I-95 and Route 216 interchange.
  The section of road overlapping the interchange was removed for the construction of Interstate Highway I-95 in the mid-1960s.  This is the former location of the farm where the poet and scholar Sterling Allen Brown lived as a child.
  In 2009 an additional section of road was removed for the building of Emerson One by Ryan Development.
  In 2011, a County Council proposal was made that, as the remainder of Whiskey Bottom Road adjacent to I-95 and 64.664 acres of Howard County-owned, wooded open space is unusable by the public, it should be given to the Emerson Development HOA LLC, waiving bidding requirements.
  Current road description
  Whiskey Bottom Road maintains its original historical path and name until meeting with Maryland route 198 in Anne Arundel County. The path continues to the southeast under several different names.
  From Maryland Route 198 Southeastward the path takes on the name Old Annapolis Road running through Maryland City.
  Old Annapolis merges with a section of Red Clay Road, which changes its name shortly afterward to Hillside Road and terminates just prior to I-295
  The path is bisected, starting again within the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center / Fort Meade complex with an unpaved section named Columbus Road and Combat Road.
  The last section of the path is a dirt road called Hill road. This wooded section was the location of "C.old Methodist Church", The J.H. Snowden Farm, and School House No.26 in 1861.
  At what is now the intersection of Switchboard Road, the original Whiskey Bottom Road merged with the Historic Davidsonville Road that ran through Davidsonville to Annapolis.
caption: Past and present routes of Whiskey Bottom Road
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