State Route 184 (SR 184) is a primary

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in the

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. The state highway runs from Washington Avenue and Bay Street in Cape Charles east to

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(US 13) and US 13 Business near Bayview. SR 184 connects US 13 with Cape Charles in southern Northampton County. The state highway is the old alignment of US 13 from when the U.S. highway used the

Little Creek-Cape Charles Ferry The Little Creek-Cape Charles Ferry was a passenger ferry service operating across the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay from the 1930s until 1964. Known also as the ''Princess Anne-Kiptopeke Beach Ferry'' or ''Little Creek-Kiptopeke Beach Ferry'', t ...

to cross the

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. SR 184 was designated after US 13 was extended south to the new terminal of the Little Creek Ferry at Kiptopeke and later the

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Route description

SR 184 begins at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Pine Street on the northern edge of the street grid in the town of Cape Charles. The state highway heads west as two-lane undivided Bay Avenue, immediately turning south to parallel the beach along the Chesapeake Bay. At the southern end of the beach at Cape Charles Harbor, SR 184 turns east onto Mason Avenue and passes through the downtown area, which lies to the north of the former ferry terminal where the

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mainline of the inactive

Bay Coast Railroad The Bay Coast Railroad was a Class III short-line railroad that ran trains on the former New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad line on the Delmarva Peninsula between Pocomoke City, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia, interchanging with the N ...

formerly interchanged with the rail car float that carried trains across the Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk. At the eastern edge of downtown, SR 184 turns north onto Fig Street then east again onto Randolph Avenue. The state highway parallels the inactive railroad line east as Stone Road through the hamlet of Cape Junction, where a rail line formerly spun off the main line south to Kiptopeke, to the highway's eastern terminus at US 13 (Lankford Highway). The roadway continues on the eastern side of the intersection as US 13 Business (Bayside Drive), which curves north through the community of Bayside and the town of Cheriton.

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Virginia Highways Project: VA 184

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State Route 184 U.S. Route 13