Acorn Park

Acorn Park in 1917– the acorn-shaped gazebo is visible at left.

Acorn Park in 2008.

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

A view of the park showing the "Grotto."

For Arthur D. Little's office park in Cambridge, Massachusetts, see Cambridge Discovery Park.

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]

Acorn Park is located at the intersection of East-West Highway and Newell Street.

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).

References

↑ "Acorn Park". Celebrate Silver Spring Foundation. 2006. Archived from the original on September 3, 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
↑ "Montgomery Park: Heritage Sites - The Silver Spring". www.montgomeryparks.org. Montgomery County Department of Parks. April 25, 2008. Archived from the original on May 22, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
1 2 McCoy, Jerry A. (2004). "Happy Birthday, Acorn Park". Silver Spring, Then & Again. Takoma Publishing, Inc. Archived from the original on 2006-03-29. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
1 2 McCoy, Jerry A. (2005). Historic Silver Spring. Silver Spring, Md.: Arcadia Publishing. pp. 26–32. ISBN 0-7385-4188-5.
↑ "MNCPPC: Acorn Urban Park". M-NCPPC. Archived from the original on April 15, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-28.

Silver Spring, Maryland

Communities

Education

Primary and secondary schools	Montgomery County Public Schools Montgomery Blair High School Nora School
Other education	Montgomery College Silver Spring Library
Former	National Park Seminary Academy of the Holy Names

Landmarks

Culture

AFI Docs

Recreation

Capital Crescent Trail

Sports

Silver Spring–Takoma Thunderbolts

This list is incomplete.
Four Corners was within the Silver Spring census-designated place prior to 2010, and Montgomery Blair High is in the Four Corners CDP.

Protected areas of Maryland

Federal

National battlefields	Antietam Monocacy
National historical parks	Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
National historic sites	Clara Barton Hampton Thomas Stone
National monuments	Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
National seashores	Assateague Island
National Park Service parks	Catoctin Mountain Park Fort Foote Park Fort Washington Park Glen Echo Park Greenbelt Park Harmony Hall Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Hill Farm Piscataway Park
National wildlife refuges	Blackwater Eastern Neck Martin Patuxent Research Refuge Susquehanna River
National historic and scenic trails	Appalachian Trail Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail
Other protected areas	Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

State

State parks	Assateague Big Run Bill Burton Fishing Pier Calvert Cliffs Canal Place Casselman River Bridge Chapel Point Cunningham Falls Dans Mountain Deep Creek Lake Elk Neck Fort Frederick Fort Tonoloway Gambrill Gathland Greenbrier Greenwell Gunpowder Falls Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Hart-Miller Island Herrington Manor Janes Island Martinak Matapeake New Germany North Point Palmer Patapsco Valley Patuxent River Pocomoke River Point Lookout Purse Rocks Rocky Gap Rosaryville Sandy Point Seneca Creek Smallwood South Mountain St. Clement's Island St. Mary's River Susquehanna Swallow Falls Tuckahoe Washington Monument Wye Oak
State forests	Cedarville Chesapeake Doncaster Elk Neck Garrett Green Ridge Pocomoke Potomac-Garrett Savage River Seth Stoney Wicomico
Wildlife management areas	Avondale Belle Grove Bodkin Island Billmeyer Bowen Cedar Island Cedar Point Cheltenham Chicamuxen Chicone Creek Cunningham Swamp Dan's Mountain Deal Island Devil Island Area Dierssen E.A. Vaughn Earleville Ellis Bay Fairmount Fishing Bay Fort Hill Globe Com Gravel Hill Swamp Grove Farm Gwynnbrook Heater's Island Hopkins Branch Hugg-Thomas Idylwild Indian Springs Islands of the Potomac Isle of Wight Johnson Kent Island Research Center LeCompte Linkwood Little Patuxent Oxbow Maryland Marine Properties McIntosh Run McKee-Beshers Millington Mt. Nebo Myrtle Grove Nanjemoy Nanjemoy Creek Nanticoke River Old Bohemia Parker's Creek Pocomoke River Pocomoke Sound Prather's Neck Ridenour Swamp Riverside Sideling Hill Sinepuxent Bay South Marsh Island Strider Tar Bay Taylor's Island Warrior Mountain Wellington Wetipquin
Natural environment areas	Belt Woods Mattawoman Morgan Run Severn Run Soldiers Delight Youghiogheny Wild River Zekiah Swamp

County and
municipal

Parks and sanctuaries

Non-
governmental

Parks and sanctuaries	Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Sanctuary Conservation and Environmental Research Areas of UMBC Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary Mount Pleasant Farm Center Sherwood Gardens Somers Cove Marina Sugarloaf Mountain University of Maryland Arboretum & Botanical Garden Western Maryland Rail Trail Youghiogheny Scenic & Wild River
Nature centers	List of nature centers in Maryland

Maryland Department of Natural Resources (web): Maryland Forest Service and Maryland Park Service (web)

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