Acorn Park
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Coordinates: 38°59′23″N 77°01′44″W / 38.98958476092941°N 77.0289855301462°W
Acorn Park is a 0.12-acre (490 m2) urban park in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, which features an acorn-shaped gazebo and an artificial grotto. The site is historically significant as it is thought to be the location of the "mica-flecked spring" that in 1840 inspired Francis Preston Blair to name his estate "Silver Spring".[1][2]
[edit] History
The gazebo in Acorn Park was constructed in 1842[3] by Benjamin C. King.[4] Francis Blair's son-in-law, Samuel Phillips Lee, had the stone grotto built at the site of the spring in 1894. It originally included a statue of a Greek nymph.[4] The park land was purchased by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission in 1942[5] and was refurbished and rededicated in 1955 [3]. A small additional tract of land was acquired by M-NCPPC in 1997 to make the current 0.12-acre (490 m2).
Acorn Park is located at the intersection of East-West Highway and Newell Street, in south Silver Spring.
[edit] References
- ^ "Acorn Park". Celebrate Silver Spring Foundation. 2006. http://www.silverspringdowntown.com/spring.php?pid=327. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
- ^ "Montgomery Park: Heritage Sites - The Silver Spring". www.montgomeryparks.org. Montgomery County Department of Parks. 2008-04-25. http://www.mc-mncppc.org/parks/PPSD/Cultural_Resources_Stewardship/heritage/the_silver_spring.shtm. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
- ^ a b McCoy, Jerry A. (2004). "Happy Birthday, Acorn Park". Silver Spring, Then & Again. Takoma Publishing, Inc.. http://www.takoma.com/archives/copy/2005/05/features_thenAgain0505.html. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
- ^ a b McCoy, Jerry A. (2005). Historic Silver Spring. Silver Spring, Md.: Arcadia Publishing. pp. 26–32. ISBN 0738541885.
- ^ "MNCPPC: Acorn Urban Park". M-NCPPC. http://www.mc-mncppc.org/Parks/park_of_the_day/jan/parkday_jan10.shtm. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
