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Book Synopsis Historic Silver Spring by : Jerry A. McCoy
Download or read book Historic Silver Spring written by Jerry A. McCoy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of America: Historic Silver Spring celebrates the community's past, beginning with founder Francis Preston Blair's 1840 discovery of the mica-flecked spring and the 1873 arrival of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Vintage photographs document the progressive growth of the "Main Streets," Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road, and the construction of the Silver Spring Armory and National Dry Cleaning Institute in 1927 and the Silver Theatre and Silver Spring Shopping Center in 1938. The volume culminates with modern pictures of downtown Silver Spring's 21st-century revitalization, which continues to preserve the past and secure the future of the area. In a pictorial journey through the community's Central Business District and bordering residential neighborhood, East Silver Spring, Historic Silver Spring honors the people and places that have come before.
Book Synopsis Downtown Silver Spring by : Jerry A. McCoy
Download or read book Downtown Silver Spring written by Jerry A. McCoy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a tour of the dynamic central business district of Silver Spring, Maryland, and its surroundings. In 1840, journalist and politician Francis Preston Blair discovered a sparkling mica-flecked spring that would serve as the centerpiece of his country estate, Silver Spring. In just over a century, this bucolic woodland, located across the border from Washington, D.C., became known as downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. Author Jerry A. McCoy, founder and president of the Silver Spring Historical Society and a special collections librarian at the D.C. Public Library's Washingtoniana Division and Peabody Room, takes you inside of how it came to be.
Book Synopsis Call My Name, Clemson by : Rhondda Robinson Thomas
Download or read book Call My Name, Clemson written by Rhondda Robinson Thomas and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation in upstate South Carolina. Calhoun’s plantation house still sits in the middle of campus. From the establishment of the plantation in 1825 through the integration of Clemson in 1963, African Americans have played a pivotal role in sustaining the land and the university. Yet their stories and contributions are largely omitted from Clemson’s public history. This book traces “Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History,” a Clemson English professor’s public history project that helped convince the university to reexamine and reconceptualize the institution’s complete and complex story from the origins of its land as Cherokee territory to its transformation into an increasingly diverse higher-education institution in the twenty-first century. Threading together scenes of communal history and conversation, student protests, white supremacist terrorism, and personal and institutional reckoning with Clemson’s past, this story helps us better understand the inextricable link between the history and legacies of slavery and the development of higher education institutions in America.
Book Synopsis Downtown Silver Spring by : Jerry A. McCoy
Download or read book Downtown Silver Spring written by Jerry A. McCoy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Jerry A. McCoy, founder and president of the Silver Spring Historical Society and a special collections librarian at the D.C. Public Library's Washingtoniana Division and Peabody Room, offers readers a tour of this dynamic central business district and surrounds.
Book Synopsis Silver Spring Success by : Richard C. Jaffeson
Download or read book Silver Spring Success written by Richard C. Jaffeson and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SILVER SPRING SUCCESS The 300 Year History of Silver Spring, Maryland Sixth edition with photos, 142 pages by Richard C. Jaffeson, AICP April 2014 Copyrights (c) 1995, 2000, 2003, and 2014 First edition, November 1995; Second edition, April 1996; Third edition, July 1996: Fourth edition, September 2000; and Fifth edition, January 2003 The sixth edition in 2014 contains 37 pages updated from the 2003 issue and features a new cover photo. This informative book highlights the historic development of Silver Spring, Maryland covering the central business district and the immediately surrounding residential areas. The community is adjacent to northwest Washington, DC, and this history describes many significant events and prominent individuals. The first history of Silver Spring was written in 1918 by Gist Blair, the son of Montgomery Blair (the attorney who represented Dred Scott before the Supreme Court, and Postmaster General for President Abraham Lincoln), and the grandson of Francis Preston Blair and Eliza Gist Blair. A special April 1996 edition was prepared for Blair Lee IV, a direct descendent of the founding Blair and Lee families and son of the former Maryland governor, for a presentation at the annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the Lee Development Group. The text covers more than 300 years from the colonial land grants to the actual discovery of Silver Spring, and from its initial suburban growth to the more recent urban development. There are five major sections and nearly forty chapters on specific events and individuals. Each chapter includes questions at the beginning, which are followed by text, and concludes with the answers to that section. Publication Commentary In June 1997, this publication received an "Excellence in Planning Award for Development Process," from the National Capital Area Chapter, American Planning Association at its Annual Awards Program and 50th Anniversary Celebration at historic Fort McNair in Washington, DC. "Clearly, this was thoroughly researched and will serve as a great resource for many years to come. Your efforts are very much appreciated in documenting the history of our proud community." ~Derick P. Berlage, former Member County Council, Montgomery County, MD "I have placed your book in the office of our curator where it will serve as an informative reference." ~Randy Bumgardner, Administrator Blair House, U.S. State Department, Washington, DC "The fact that Elizabeth Blair found, ́...the bubbling brook they called Silver Spring. ́ while riding her horse appeals to an ́old ́ horseback rider like me." ~Nancy Dacek, former Member County Council, Montgomery County, MD "You have complied a detailed history of Silver Spring in a format that is intriguing and engaging. I'm sure anyone interested in our county's past will enjoy reading your book. It's great to see ́history ́ encompassing more recent accomplishments, including the current revitalization efforts, in which, I believe we have found a ́formula for success. ́" ~Douglas M. Duncan, former County Executive Montgomery County, MD Major topic headings for this publication are listed below, and the complete Table of Contents is posted on the following website http://washdc.pages.qpg.com/silverspring Table of Contents Part A. Original Conditions Part B. First Silver Spring Family Part C. Early Settlement Part D. Suburban Development Part E, Urban Development Appendix and Charts Author Background
Book Synopsis Silver Spring Success by : Richard C. Jaffeson
Download or read book Silver Spring Success written by Richard C. Jaffeson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Places from the Past by : Clare Lise Cavicchi
Download or read book Places from the Past written by Clare Lise Cavicchi and published by Maryland National Capital Park &. This book was released on 2001 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Silver Spring and the Civil War by : Robert E. Oshel PhD
Download or read book Silver Spring and the Civil War written by Robert E. Oshel PhD and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 11, 1864, some residents cheered and others watched in horror as Confederate troops spread across the fields and orchards of Silver Spring, Maryland. Many fled to the capital while General Jubal Early's troops ransacked their property. The estate of Lincoln's postmaster general, Montgomery Blair, was burned, and his father's home was used by Early as headquarters from which to launch an attack on Washington's defenses. Yet the first Civil War casualty in Silver Spring came well before Early's raid, when Union soldiers killed a prominent local farmer in 1862. This was life in the shadow of the Federal City. Drawing on contemporary accounts and memoirs, Dr. Robert E. Oshel tells the story of Silver Spring over the tumultuous course of the Civil War.
Book Synopsis Silver Spring Township by : Christine Clepper Musser
Download or read book Silver Spring Township written by Christine Clepper Musser and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1757, Silver Spring Township is the fourth-oldest township in Cumberland County. The area was founded by the Scots-Irish, who cleared the area for farming and built taverns, inns, and mercantile businesses. Eventually, the villages of Hogestown and New Kingstown were established; these two villages are still home to many township residents. Rich in history, Silver Spring is home to the Silver Spring Presbyterian Church, the oldest church west of the Susquehanna River. Between 2012 and 2013, Silver Spring Township was the fourth-largest growing township in Pennsylvania. What were once heavily traveled Native American trails have become well-traveled highways and byways, and within a few hours, travelers can be in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. Through vintage photographs, Silver Spring Township shares and celebrates the history of this well-preserved community.
Download or read book A History of Silver Spring Twp written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annals of Silver Spring by : Gist Blair
Download or read book Annals of Silver Spring written by Gist Blair and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Silver Spring, Maryland Public Library from 1931 to 1951 by : Didrikke Moen Rice
Download or read book A History of the Silver Spring, Maryland Public Library from 1931 to 1951 written by Didrikke Moen Rice and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annals of Silver Spring (Classic Reprint) by : Gist Blair
Download or read book Annals of Silver Spring (Classic Reprint) written by Gist Blair and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annals of Silver Spring Montgomery County, within which Silver Spring is situated, was segregated from Prince George's County in 1748, when it became a part of Frederick County. Its historic soil even then should have felt and heard in whispers the coming of great events. General Braddock marched across it on his way to defeat in the French and Indian War, where General Washing ton gained the first experiences of a soldier. In his company and as a companion, my great great-grand father, Christopher Gist, born and raised in Baltimore, alse marched across: the soil of Old Montgomery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Montgomery Modern: Modern Architecture in Montgomery County, Maryland, 1930–1979 by : Clare Lise Kelly
Download or read book Montgomery Modern: Modern Architecture in Montgomery County, Maryland, 1930–1979 written by Clare Lise Kelly and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated reference guide to the history of modern architecture in Montgomery County, Maryland, from 1930 to 1979, with an inventory of key buildings and communities, and biographical sketches of practitioners including architects, landscape architects, planners and developers.
Book Synopsis Staff Report by : Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Download or read book Staff Report written by Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Silver Spring and the Civil War by : Robert Eugene Oshel
Download or read book Silver Spring and the Civil War written by Robert Eugene Oshel and published by Civil War. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 11, 1864, some residents cheered and others watched in horror as Confederate troops spread across the fields and orchards of Silver Spring, Maryland. Many fled to the capital while General Jubal Early's troops ransacked their property. The estate of Lincoln's postmaster general, Montgomery Blair, was burned, and his father's home was used by Early as headquarters from which to launch an attack on Washington's defenses. Yet the first Civil War casualty in Silver Spring came well before Early's raid, when Union soldiers killed a prominent local farmer in 1862. This was life in the shadow of the Federal City. Drawing on contemporary accounts and memoirs, Dr. Robert E. Oshel tells the story of Silver Spring over the tumultuous course of the Civil War.
Book Synopsis Remembering Paradise Park by : Lu Vickers
Download or read book Remembering Paradise Park written by Lu Vickers and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Paradise Park was the "colored only'" counterpart to Silver Springs, a central Florida tourist attraction famous for its crystal-clear water and glass bottom boats. Together the two parks formed one of the biggest recreational facilities in the country before Disney World. From 1949 to 1969, boats passed each other on the Silver River--blacks on one side, whites on the other. Though the patrons of both parks shared the same river, they seldom crossed the invisible line in the water"--Jacket.
