Acorn Park

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Acorn Park in 1917– the acorn-shaped gazebo is visible in the left of the photograph.
Acorn Park in 1917– the acorn-shaped gazebo is visible in the left of the photograph.
Acorn Park in 2008.
Acorn Park in 2008.

Coordinates: 38°59′23″N 77°01′44″W / 38.989585, -77.028986

Acorn Park is a park in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland that features an acorn-shaped gazebo and an artificial grotto. The site is thought to be the location of the mica-flecked spring that inspired Francis Preston Blair to name his estate "Silver Spring."[1][2]

The gazebo was constructed in 1842[3] by Benjamin C. King.[4]

Blair's son-in-law, Samuel Phillips Lee, had the stone grotto built at the site of the spring in 1894. It originally contained a statue of a Grecian nymph.[4]

It was purchased by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission in 1942[5], and refurbished and rededicated in 1955 [3].

The park is located at the intersection of East-West Highway and Newell Road, in south Silver Spring.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Acorn Park. Celebrate Silver Spring Foundation (2006). Retrieved on 2007-03-24.
  2. ^ Montgomery Park: Heritage Sites - The Silver Spring. www.montgomeryparks.org. Montgomery County Department of Parks (2008-04-25). Retrieved on 2008-04-28.
  3. ^ a b McCoy, Jerry A. (2004). Happy Birthday, Acorn Park. Silver Spring, Then & Again. Takoma Publishing, Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-03-24.
  4. ^ a b McCoy, Jerry A. (2005). Historic Silver Spring. Silver Spring, Md.: Arcadia Publishing, 26-32. ISBN 0738541885. 
  5. ^ MNCPPC: Acorn Urban Park. M-NCPPC. Retrieved on 2008-04-28.


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