Most former slaves in the South, meanwhile, became sharecroppers during the Reconstruction period, leasing plots of land from their former masters in exchange for a percentage of the crop yield. By 1880, more than 80 percent of southern blacks had become sharecroppers.
WHAT: The southbound I-95 ramp to Key Highway (Exit 55) will be closed overnight. The detour will direct motorists from southbound I-95 to Caton Avenue (Exit 50), to northbound I-95, to Key Highway (Exit 55). The northbound I-95 ramp to Russell Street (Exit 52) will be closed overnight. The detour will direct motorists from northbound I-95 to Martin Luther King Boulevard, to Lee Street, to Russell Street. The northbound I-95 ramp to Washington Boulevard (Exit 51) will be closed overnight.
This will give an interstate feel to the Waldorf area and ultimately take away traffic congestion to the north-south routes in Waldorf. 1  Maryland Route 5 (Leonardtown Road), which joins US 301 in Brandywine to the north and splits at the county line to bypass Waldorf on Mattawoman-Beantown Road. It runs from Washington, D.C. and Brandywine in the north to Hughesville and the southern tip of Maryland.