Historic Silver SpringImages 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. |
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ACORN GAZEBO Avenue and Colesville B&O Railroad B&O RAILROAD STATION Blair Station Blair Station Post BOUNDARY STONE Brookeville Turnpike CANADA DRY CANADA DRY BOTTLING Cissel Colesville Road construction cornerstone DCPL District of Columbia downtown Silver Spring DRY BOTTLING PLANT East-West Highway EASTERN AVENUE façade Francis Preston Blair Georgia Avenue Georgia Avenue underpass Gramax John left to right LITTLE TAVERN located Maryland Montgomery County murals opened operated original photograph was taken Pitney-Bowes postcard depicts postmaster RATION STAMP Reindeer Frozen Custard RESTAURANT Rockville Roeder ROSS POSTCARD Samuel Phillips Lee SERVICE SIDE OF GEORGIA Silver Spring Armory Silver Spring Avenue Silver Spring Historical Silver Spring National Silver Spring Park Silver Spring Post Silver Spring Shopping Sligo Avenue South Silver Spring Spring Historical Society Spring Post Office Spring Shopping Center SSHS STAMP NO RATION Star Station Post Office Suburban Tastee Diner THAYER AVENUE TRANSORMA Washington and Brookeville Wayne Avenue