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Acorn Park
Acorn-shaped gazebo, park, Maryland, US
Acorn-shaped gazebo, park, Maryland, US
| Field | Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Acorn Urban Park | ||
| alt_name | *Acorn Park* | ||
| image | Acorn Park 2008.jpg | ||
| image_alt | A photograph taken in the year 2008, of Acorn Park | ||
| image_caption | Acorn Park in 2008 | ||
| mapframe-zoom | 13 | ||
| mapframe-marker | park | ||
| mapframe-marker-color | #008000 | ||
| type | Urban park | ||
| location | {{plainlist | ||
| coordinates | |||
| area | 0.1247 acre | ||
| established | |||
| etymology | Acorn–shaped gazebo | ||
| owner | Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M–NCPPC) | ||
| administrator | Montgomery Parks | ||
| open | Sunrise to sunset | ||
| publictransit | {{plainlist | ||
| * {{WMATA icon | Red | showtext | yes}} Silver Spring Metro |
| * {{rail color box | system | MARC | line=Brunswick}} |
| website |
| mapframe-zoom = 13 | mapframe-marker = park | mapframe-marker-color = #008000
- 8060 Newell Street
- Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
- United States}}
- Silver Spring Metro
- Metrobus
- Ride On}}
Acorn Park is a 0.1247 acre urban park in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, 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".
Acorn Park is located at the intersection of East-West Highway and Newell Street.
History
The gazebo in Acorn Park was constructed in 1842 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060329032710/http://www.takoma.com/archives/copy/2005/05/features_thenAgain0505.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 29, 2006 |access-date=March 24, 2007 by Benjamin C. King. 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. The park land was purchased by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission in 1942 and was refurbished and rededicated in 1955. A small additional tract of land was acquired by M-NCPPC in 1997, to make the current 0.1247 acre.
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References
References
- "Parks and Trails Atlas of Montgomery County, MD — ArcGIS Web Application".
- (October 30, 2018). "Acorn Urban Park".
- Sheir, Rebecca. (April 4, 2014). "The Man Who Discovered Silver Spring's 'Silver Spring'". WAMU 88.5 – American University Radio.
- "A Brief History of Silver Spring". Cannon Road Elementary School, Montgomery County Public Schools.
- "Acorn Park".
- (2006). "Acorn Park". Celebrate Silver Spring Foundation.
- (April 25, 2008). "Montgomery Park: Heritage Sites - The Silver Spring". Montgomery County Department of Parks.
- McCoy, Jerry A.. (2005). "Historic Silver Spring". Arcadia Publishing.
- "MNCPPC: Acorn Urban Park". M-NCPPC.
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