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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22Q5_guests-at-the-forest-inn_Silver-Spring-MD.html
National Park Seminary was a resort hotel from 1887 to 1893, a school for young women from 1894 to 1942, and a U.S. Army medical facility from 1942 to 2004. It is now a unique residential community.
Guests at The Forest Inn, students at Nationa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22FY_conservation-landscaping_Silver-Spring-MD.html
In 2015, Glen Waye Gardens Condominiums and Bethesda Green undertook three major methods to reduce Glen Waye's stormwater runoff:
· Reforestation Project: 60 native trees were planted.
· Cisterns: 6 concrete pads and rainwate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2262_safeway_Silver-Spring-MD.html
On this site in 1951, Wheaton welcomed Safeway into the community with a supermarket located at 11215 Georgia Avenue. Safeway was one of the first to offer free parking, refrigerated produce and "Cool Shopping Comfort" in the air conditioned store…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM224J_cisterns_Silver-Spring-MD.html
In 2015, Glen Waye Gardens Condominiums and Bethesda Green undertook three major methods to reduce Glen Waye's stormwater runoff:
· Reforestation project: 60 native trees were planted.
· Cisterns: 6 concrete pads and rainwater …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM224I_reforestation_Silver-Spring-MD.html
In 2015, Glen Waye Gardens Condominiums and Bethesda Green undertook three major methods to reduce Glen Waye's stormwater runoff:
· Reforestation project: 60 native trees were planted.
· Cisterns: 6 concrete pads and rainwater …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y13_the-harper-family-homestead-historical_Silver-Spring-MD.html
Take a moment to think about your home and family life. Thomas Harper and his wife Elizabeth raised six children in this home. Later, their son Richard and his wife Rachel raised fifteen children there. They kept chickens and pigs, had vegetable g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JYH_the-blair-family-and-their-silver-spring-homes_Silver-Spring-MD.html
"...[They] have to an unusual degree the spirit of [a] clan. Their family is a closed corporation."
Secretary John Hay recorded a White House conversation in which the President Abraham Lincoln, spoke of the Blair family: "...[Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JXG_silver-spring-experienced-by-a-mother-and-child-1861-1865_Silver-Spring-MD.html
6 August 1863: "Our weather continues intensely hot, so far Blair endures it well — cheerful as a bird — out under the trees all day about the Spring where it is cool from the dense shade & the cool waters, he makes mill dams, mud…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JWW_the-blair-family-and-the-civil-war_Silver-Spring-MD.html
In his declaration of war on April 15, 1861, President Lincoln made an urgent request:
"I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid said effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I3V_visions-realized_Silver-Spring-MD.html
Silver Spring in the early 1900s saw the construction of several private dwellings fronting the east side of Georgia Avenue, originally named the Washington and Brookeville Turnpike. One of these was an American four-square house built in 1909 by …