On January 10, 1810, the Columbia Turnpike Road Company was chartered by the General Assembly of Maryland to "make a turnpike road from where the road leading from Montgomery courthouse to Baltimore intersects the Baltimore and Frederick turnpike road near Ellicott's lower mills, in a direction towards Georgetown, until it intersects the line of the district of Columbia, and so that it shall cross Rock creek at not less than three miles above Georgetown" The road was managed by the Columbia Turnpike Company and later came to be known as the Columbia Pike. In 1835 Columbia Pike surrendered its Montgomery and Anne Arundel (Howard) County roads and bridges to the State of Maryland.