The state highway from Edgewater south to Owings was reconstructed in stages from the early 1950s to the mid-1960s, when the Owings–Friendship portion of MD 2 was relocated.

The highway crosses over Hall Creek and meets MD 260 (Chesapeake Beach Road) in the village of Owings.

[4] When state highways were first assigned numbers in 1927, Solomons Island Road became the southern part of MD 2.

[8] MD 2 from Owings to Edgewater starting receiving its first major upgrades in the 1950s, including several relocations of the highway.

[13] The segment of Old Solomons Island Road immediately to the north of MD 423 remained in the state highway system until 1963.

These ten highways, all named Old Solomons Island Road, are old alignments of MD 2 between Friendship and Harwood in southern Anne Arundel County.