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Pennsylvania Route 230 (PA 230) is a 28.4-mile (45.7 km) long state route in central Pennsylvania. Its western terminus is at an intersection with U.S. Route 22 (US 22) in Harrisburg. Its eastern terminus is at an interchange with PA 283 near Salunga. The route passes northwest-southeast through Dauphin and Lancaster counties and serves as a surface road parallel to the PA 283 freeway that connects the cities of Harrisburg and Lancaster. Along the way, PA 230 passes through Middletown, Elizabethtown, and Mount Joy. The route intersects the Airport Connector near the Harrisburg International Airport, PA 441 and PA 341 in the Middletown area, PA 241 and PA 743 in Elizabethtown, and PA 772 in Mount Joy. The road between Middletown and Lancaster was originally a private turnpike dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries. Legislative Route 129 was designated between Harrisburg and Lancaster in 1911. With the creation of the U.S. Highway System in 1926, a spur of US 30 called U.S. Route 230 (US 230) was designated from US 22/PA 3/PA 13 at Cameron and Mulberry streets in Harrisburg southeast to US 1 in Conowingo, Maryland. The route ran concurrent with PA 41 between Harrisburg and Lancaster and PA 72 between Lancaster and the Maryland state line. The eastern terminus of US 230 was cut back to US 30/PA 1 and US 222/PA 41/PA 72 at King and Prince streets in downtown Lancaster in 1928, with US 222 replacing the route between Lancaster and Conowingo. The concurrent PA 41 designation was removed by 1930. The route was extended north to US 11/US 15/US 22/US 322 at Front and Maclay streets in Harrisburg in the 1930s. In 1949, US 230 was moved to a multilane alignment between Salunga and Lancaster. The route was moved to a freeway bypass north of Lancaster to end at US 30 east of Lancaster in 1953. US 230 was replaced with PA 230 in the 1960s, with the western terminus moved to its current location and the eastern terminus to an interchange with the US 30 freeway northwest of Lancaster, with US 30 replacing the route east of there. PA 230 was upgraded to a freeway between Salunga and Lancaster in 1969. The eastern terminus was cut to its current location by 1972 with PA 283 replacing the route on the freeway into Lancaster. The route extended along US 22 to the Interstate 81 (I-81)/US 322 interchange between the 1970s and 1980s. From Wikipedia
