north–south highway through Fruitland and Salisbury followed Allen Road north from Allen on Wicomico County's border with Somerset County to near the present intersection of Division Street and Camden Avenue on the west side of Fruitland. Division Street continued east to pass through the center of Fruitland before heading north to Salisbury, while Camden Avenue bypassed Fruitland to the west and headed directly toward Salisbury. The two roads reunited in downtown Salisbury just south of Main Street. Division Street continued north out of Salisbury toward Delmar. When the Maryland State Roads Commission (SRC) designated a state road system in 1909, the highway between Allen and Salisbury using Camden Avenue was designated a state road. In 1911, the road between Westover and Princess Anne was completed as a state highway while the portion between Salisbury and south of Delmar was completed as a state-aid road. At this time, the road between Pocomoke City and Salisbury was proposed as a state road. The state road was completed from the southern limit of Salisbury to Main Street in Fruitland in 1912 and from there to Allen in 1913. In 1914, the state highway between Princess Anne and Allen was completed. The highway between the Virginia border through Pocomoke City to Westover and between Salisbury and Delmar was completed by 1921. With the creation of the U.S. Highway System on November 11, 1926, US 13 was designated through Maryland from the Virginia border south of Pocomoke City north to the Delaware border in Delmar. The route headed north to Pocomoke City, northwest to Westover, north to Princess Anne, northeast to Fruitland and Salisbury, and north to Delmar. The entire route of US 13 in Maryland became part of the Ocean Highway, an Atlantic coastal highway stretching from Jacksonville, Florida to New Brunswick, New Jersey that served as the quickest route between the New York City area and Florida before the introduction of the Interstate Highway System. US 13 is one of only four U.S. Routes that form the highway and Maryland was one of the states that participated in the highway's formation. In 1930, US 13 along Division Street north of downtown Salisbury was placed on an overpass over the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad (now the Delmarva Central Railroad's Delmarva Subdivision) US 13 was relocated between Princess Anne and Fruitland in 1933 to bypass the circuitous route via Loretto Road and Allen