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2. Acorn Park - Wikipedia

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   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".

3. Silver Spring, Maryland - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Francis Preston Blair - Wikipedia

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   Blair's estate, The Silver Spring Francis Preston Blair and his wife Eliza Violet Gist at The Silver Spring Francis married Eliza Violet Gist on July 21, 1812. He had three sons, Montgomery Blair (1813–1883), James L. Blair (1819–1852) and Francis "Frank" Preston Blair Jr. (1821–1875), and two daughters, Juliet Blair (1816–1819) and ...

5. Montgomery Blair High School - Wikipedia

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   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]

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7. Blair Lee I - Wikipedia

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   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.