Woodbine, Maryland

Woodbine, Maryland
Unincorporated community
Salt Box Ball Field in Woodbine
Country	United States of America
State	Maryland
Population (2014)
• Total	8,124
Time zone	Eastern (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP code	21797
Area code	410, 443, 667

Coordinates: 39°21′32″N 77°03′43″W / 39.359°N 77.062°W / 39.359; -77.062

Woodbine is an unincorporated rural community located in Howard and Carroll counties, in the Baltimore, Maryland, metropolitan area. The unincorporated community was named for the plant, which grew in the community in fields and along riverbanks.

Woodbine is located at the juncture of the Patapsco River, the B&O Railroad, and the road that runs north from Lisbon to Winfield, Maryland on Liberty Road (Maryland Route 26) and through to Westminster, Maryland. The original road from Baltimore to Frederick runs just north of Lisbon, following a slight ridge line westward half way to Woodbine (the road was finally paved in the 1960s). This was the original trail that existed before the National Road was built (the road that runs through Lisbon).

During the Civil War, Confederate cavalry crossed the Patapsco River at Woodbine and at Hoods Mill, just a few miles east on the river and the B&O Railroad, scouting the Union Army that was on its way to the Battle of Gettysburg. The main road at that time ran just west of the existing road and up the west side of a creek that runs south and that joins with the Patapsco River just 50 yards west of the existing road. That original road, now partly unused, runs north 100 yards from the river and then Eastward (Gum Road) to join up with the existing road today. There was no bridge across the Patapsco River at that time, just a ford in the river.