Acorn Park in
1917– the
acorn-shaped gazebo is visible in the left of the photograph.
Coordinates: 38°59′23″N 77°01′44″W / 38.98958476092941°N -77.0289855301462°E / 38.98958476092941; -77.0289855301462
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]
[edit] 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).
Acorn Park is located at the intersection of East-West Highway and Newell Street, in south Silver Spring.
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