The first road bridge across the Severn River was a drawbridge built in the late 1920s.

All of these were made of timber and have since been replaced with masonry bridges in slightly different positions.]

Including railroad bridges, at least eighteen have been constructed over the Severn and its creeks.

The bridge served as part of MD 2 and later US 50 after the later route was extended across the Chesapeake Bay.

The bridge was expanded to seven lanes, four eastbound and three westbound, from the fall 2017 to the spring of 2018.