Old Harford Road | |
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| Route information | |
| Maintained by Baltimore DOT and Baltimore County | |
| Length | 5.3 mi (8.5 km) |
| Major junctions | |
| South end |  MD 147 in Hamilton, Baltimore City |
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| North end | The Charles Hickey School in Cub Hill, Maryland |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maryland |
| County | City of Baltimore and Baltimore |
| Highway system | |
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Old Harford Road, one of the oldest continuously used rights-of-way in central Maryland, United States, is a southwest–northeast thoroughfare in northeast Baltimore City and eastern Baltimore County.
Present-day Old Harford Road begins in the 6000 block of Harford Road in the Hamilton section of Baltimore City and continues nearly 5+1⁄2 miles northeast through the Parkville and Carney areas of Baltimore County to near the Big Gunpowder Falls north of Cub Hill. Old Harford Road serves as an alternate route to both Harford Road (Maryland Route 147) and Perring Parkway (Maryland Route 41), and carries between 10,000 and 16,500 vehicles per day. Old Harford Road, like Harford County, was named for Henry Harford (1758–1834), the son of Frederick Calvert, 6th Lord Baltimore, and the last Proprietary of Maryland prior to the American Revolutionary War.