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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FKK_rachel-carson-house_Silver-Spring-MD.html
Rachel Carson House
Has been designated a
National Historic Landmark
This property possesses national significance in the commemorating the history of the United States of America.
1991
National Park Service
United States Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FEZ_the-burger-king_Silver-Spring-MD.html
"Buy 'em by the Bag," the motto urged. For more than half a century, hamburger-hungry customers came to Maryland's first Little Tavern to do just that.
Harry F. Duncan founded Little Tavern Shops, Inc., which specialized in 5? little hamburgers, i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FAJ_you-are-here-1931_Silver-Spring-MD.html
Brick Is Enduring. In 1931, the Lansdale, PA engineer Frank HM Klinge published the Atlas of Montgomery County; Volume One. Real estate atlases were created to assist fire insurance companies in assessing the risk associated with insuring a specif…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F9U_silver-spring-armory_Silver-Spring-MD.html
The Silver Spring Armory, completed in 1927, was significant for its association with the Maryland National Guard 29th Division's service during World Wars I and II. It was one of the major civic buildings constructed in Silver Spring during the e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F35_the-community-of-silver-spring_Silver-Spring-MD.html
The Community of Silver Spring, Maryland, derives its name from this spring, discovered in 1840 by Francis Preston Blair and his daughter, Elizabeth. While riding on horseback in the woods beyond Washington, rays of sun on mica sand particles in t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EQP_burnt-mills_Silver-Spring-MD.html
The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission built the Burnt Mills water filtration facility in 1929 to meet increasing demand for clean water in the rapidly-growing Washington. D. C. suburbs.
The two brick Colonial Revival buildings housed offi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EPH_rachel-carson_Silver-Spring-MD.html
Ms. Rachel Louise Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, but spent most of her adult life in and around Montgomery County, Maryland. She was a renowned biologist and owed her love of nature to the encouragements of her mother…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B6B_silver-opportunity_Silver-Spring-MD.html
The commercial Vitality of this block sprang to life in the late 1930s. Across the street, where homes with front porches once stood, the 1938 construction of the Silver Spring Shopping Center served as the "Magnet" attracting future development. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AR6_building-blocks_Silver-Spring-MD.html
"Shop Along the Silver Strip, Suburban Washington's Newest and Finest Shopping Community," proclaimed the January 8, 1942 Silver Spring Standard newspaper upon its opening. Businesses residing in these storefronts offered a variety of consumer ser…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ACN_first-bank-first-heist_Silver-Spring-MD.html
Silver Spring's First Bank Robbery occurred in 1928, here on the southwest corner of Georgia Avenue and Oak Street (today's Bonifant Street).
Commerce in this block began on September 1, 1925, when the Colonial Revival-style Silver Spring Nati…