Delaware State Route 273 Archive

A Winter snowstorm blanketed the intersection of SR 273 (Nottingham Road) and Casho Mill Road in northwest Newark. 01/30/00

Former span wire signal array at E Delaware Avenue and Academy Street in Newark. 01/09/19

Traffic signals preceding Tyre Avenue were replaced with a mast arm assembly by 2022. 09/29/14

Vintage Eagle Flatback Signals formerly used at E Delaware Avenue and Tyre Avenue in Newark. 09/29/14

Left curve regulatory signs ahead of SR 72 alluded to the historic northward curve made by SR 2/273. 06/04/12

Library Avenue south across the AMTRAK Northeast Corridor was constructed in 1979, altering the curve into a T-intersection. 09/29/14

Mast arm traffic lights replaced the span wire assemblies at E Delaware Avenue and Library Avenue in Newark by 2022. 06/04/12

SR 273 (Delaware Avenue) east at SR 72 (Library Avenue) and the entrance to College Square Shopping Center in Newark. 05/15/05

SR 72 north / SR 273 east at SR 2 (Old Capitol Trail) and E Main Street (former SR 2 Business). The overhead for Main Street changed in 2004 to include a trailblazer for the adjacent Newark Free Library. 06/18/12

SR 273 (Ogletown Road) east Marrows Road. 05/15/05

SR 273 reassurance marker posted east of Marrows Road in Newark. 05/15/05

This sign for the turn off to Ogletown Road on SR 273 eastbound was removed by 2014. 05/15/05

Overheads for SR 273 at the north end of Salem Church Road at Ogletown. Sign replacements made here retained the erroneous TO prefix for the SR 273 eastbound ramp. 03/27/04

All traffic to SR 4 (Ogletown Road east / Chestnut Hill Road) west departs from SR 273 east in unison at the Salem Church Road off-ramp. This set of signs was carbon copied. 05/15/05

The sign for the SR 4 and Salem Church Road was replaced again in 2020 to include an exit only placard. 12/24/17

Replaced overheads posted ahead of SR 4 on the ramp to Salem Church Road. 03/27/04

Signal changes made at SR 273 and Brownleaf Road added a box span wire assemblies with protected left turns for the adjacent subdivisions. 05/15/05

SR 273 next intersected the south end of Harmony Road ahead of the directional cloverleaf interchange with I-95. This sign was taken down after 2009. 05/15/05

A mix of Eagle Flatback and Mark IV signals along SR 273 (Christiana Road) east at Harmony Road north and Gerald Drive south. These were replaced during an intersection improvement project completed in October 2011. 05/15/05

Original guide signs for Interstate 95 and the Delaware Turnpike displayed the toll road name above a horizontal rule. Some of these designs were copied over to a new generation of signs, such as the panel preceding the freeway along SR 273 east. 03/27/04