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Erickson Senior Living is an owner, manager and developer of retirement communities in the United States. It provides independent living, assisted living, memory and skilled nursing care, managing 20 campus-style retirement communities in 11 states. Headquartered in Catonsville, Maryland, it employs over 17,000 people for 24,000 residents as of ...
Like much of Maryland, slavery was present in the Ruxton and Riderwood communities during the 18th century, despite local Quaker and Methodist resistance. In 1790, enslaved people comprised nearly 45% of the area's population. [2] In 1833, J. Aquilla Scott, a free Black man, founded St. John's Church, a historic A.U.M.P. Church.
Located in the Silver Spring CDP, Lyttonsville is bordered by East-West Highway (Maryland Route 410) to the south, beyond which is the neighborhood of Rock Creek Forest and, further south, Washington, D.C. Rock Creek Park and Chevy Chase are located to the west, Forest Glen Park to the north, and Woodside and Downtown Silver Spring to the east.
Prior to the opening of the light rail system, the current parking lot was a park-and-ride lot with express bus service. The gap between Lutherville and Falls Road, the previous station to the south, is one of the longest on the Light Rail line due to opposition from the residents of Ruxton and Riderwood to stations being built in their ...
Rock Creek Forest is a mostly residential neighborhood in Silver Spring / Chevy Chase, Maryland. It is bordered by Chevy Chase to the west, Silver Spring to the east, the border with Washington, D.C., to the south. Maryland Route 410 (East West Highway) runs through the neighborhood.
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.
Woodside Urban Park is a 2.3-acre recreational park located on the southern edge of the neighborhood. The park was renovated and expanded in 2010 and contains picnic tables, a large children's play area, tennis courts, a bronze statue of a man on a unicycle, and a water fountain that provides a soothing counterpoint to busy Georgia Avenue.
The Talbot Avenue bridge in Montgomery County, Maryland, is a two-lane pedestrian bridge that connects the neighborhood of Lyttonsville to downtown Silver Spring over the Metropolitan Subdivision of the CSX railroad. Built in 2024, it is the third bridge across railroad tracks in this location.