 A disjoint segment of macadam road was laid from MD 118 at Old Germantown west to Schaeffer Road in 1930 and extended west to near Little Seneca Creek by 1933.A third section of macadam road was also built from the modern MD 117–MD 124 intersection west to the hamlet of Clopper east of Great Seneca Creek by 1933.All three segments were later marked as MD 117.