page_title: Maryland Route 537
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: Maryland Route 537 / Route description
caption_attribution_description: English: View south along Maryland State Route 537 (George Street) at Maryland State Route 286 (Second Street) in Chesapeake City, Cecil County, Maryland
context_page_description: Maryland Route 537 is a collection of unsigned state highways in the U.S. state of Maryland. These two existing highways and two former sections of state highway are segments of old alignment of U.S. Route 213, which is now MD 213, in Chesapeake City in southern Cecil County. Some of the roads that became segments of MD 537 were constructed in the mid-1910s as part of the original state road between Elkton and Cecilton. Other portions of MD 537 were part of the approach roads to a bridge across the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal that was built in the mid-1920s and destroyed in 1942. After the modern Chesapeake City Bridge and its approach roads were completed in 1949, US 213 was moved to the new bridge and approach roads and MD 537 was assigned to the bypassed sections of US 213. Much of MD 537 outside of Chesapeake City was transferred to county maintenance in the late 1950s. In 2015, the remaining section of MD 537 north of the canal was turned over to municipal maintenance.
context_section_description: There are two existing sections of MD 537 and two former sections of the highway. MD 537A and MD 537B were north of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, and MD 537C and MD 537D are south of the canal. This description runs north to south starting from the north end of the Chesapeake City area:
  MD 537A ran 1.61 miles (2.59 km) between a pair of intersections with US 213 (Augustine Herman Highway), between which was a third intersection with the highway, north of Chesapeake City. The highway split from the U.S. Highway on a tangent along Knights Corner Road. MD 537A turned west onto Elk Forest Road, crossed to the west side of US 213, and turned south onto Spears Hill Road. The highway followed that road to its southern terminus at US 213 north of Long Creek.
  MD 537B began at MD 285, which heads east along Biddle Street toward Delaware and north along Lock Street toward Elkton. The highway headed south along Lock Street for 0.06 miles (0.097 km) to Canal Road along the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. The 0.01 miles (0.016 km) of MD 537B closest to the canal was maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers instead of the Maryland State Highway Administration beginning in 2014 after discovery that the latter had quitclaimed the segment to the former in 1965. MD 537B originally followed Lock Street a further 0.57 miles (0.92 km) out of the town limits to MD 213 at the north end of the Chesapeake City Bridge along what is now MD 285.
  MD 537C runs 0.49 miles (0.79 km) from the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal south to MD 213. The highway begins at a dead end at the canal just north of 1st Street in the South Chesapeake City Historic District. MD 537C follows George Street through an intersection with the western end of MD 286 (2nd Street). The highway has an acute junction with the northern end of MD 342 (St. Augustine Road) and an orthogonal intersection with MD 537D. South of MD 537D, MD 537C reaches its southern terminus at right-in/right-out interchange ramps with northbound MD 213 at the south end of the Chesapeake City Bridge at the Chesapeake City town limit.
  MD 537D, which has a length of 0.25 miles (0.40 km), begins at MD 342 and heads west as an unnamed road through an intersection with MD 537C. The highway passes under the Chesapeake City Bridge and curves south to an intersection with the right-in/right-out interchange ramps with southbound MD 213. MD 537D reaches its southern terminus 0.02 miles (0.032 km) south of the town limit of Chesapeake City. The roadway continues as county-maintained Basil Avenue. MD 537D formerly continued south 0.86 miles (1.38 km) along Basil Avenue to US 213 at Bohemia Manor High School.
caption: View south at the north end of MD 537C at MD 286 in Chesapeake City
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