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Blair's Washington, D.C., residence with its rich history withstood the test of time and currently Blair House is the common name of the President's Guest House complex. The city of Silver Spring, Maryland took its name from Blair's estate. [14] Out of three houses connected to the Blairs at Silver Spring, only the house of James Blair survived.
Board of Education, Blair was an all-white school. [11] In 1955, the school began to integrate along with the rest of Montgomery County. [12] With Silver Spring's growth, Blair's enrollment jumped from 600 students in 1946, to 1900 by 1956, peaking at 2900 in 1965 before being reduced from 1700 to 1400 after rezoning in 1982. [7]
Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, it is an edge city [3] with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 census, [4] making it the fifth-most-populous place in Maryland after Baltimore, Columbia, Germantown, and Waldorf.
In 1882, Blair unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Representative from Maryland's sixth district. [1] His 600-acre (2.4 km 2) manor in present-day Silver Spring, Maryland was named Falkland. It was burned by Confederate troops during their thrust towards the national capital in Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War.
Acorn Park is a 0.1247-acre (500-square-metre) urban park in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, which features an acorn-shaped gazebo and an artificial grotto. [1] 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".
Additionally, many of the Confederate troops had looted the home of Montgomery Blair, the son of the founder of Silver Spring, Maryland. They found barrels of whiskey in the basement of the mansion, called Blair Mansion, and many troops were too drunk to get a good start in the morning. This allowed for further fortification by Union troops. [16]
Lee was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, and attended the common schools in the area.He was the son of Samuel Phillips Lee and his wife, the former Elizabeth Blair.He graduated from Princeton University in 1880 and from the law department of Columbian (now George Washington) University in 1882.
Miskiri was born on August 19, 1975, in Georgetown, Guyana.At age 5, he moved to Maryland. He attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he played alongside future All-Star Steve Francis.
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