sentences:  The Interstate was dedicated as Maryland Veterans Memorial Highway in 1987.The first section of I-81 to be constructed in Maryland was the pre-Interstate Hagerstown Bypass that was planned to provide relief to the 
  
  existing north–south highway through downtown Hagerstown, US 11.The highway was planned to run from US 40 west of downtown Hagerstown to the Pennsylvania state line, where the Pennsylvania Department of Highways would continue the bypass north to tie into US 11 near Greencastle.