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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.
Gifford's Ice Cream & Candy Co. was founded in May 1938 by John Nash Gifford, George Milroy, John L. Tillotson, Leslie J. Daley, and Mary Frances Gifford. The original incorporation was on September 11, 1938. The first store was opened at 8101 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland, where Gifford's sold six original ice cream flavors. [2]
Ellsworth Place is a 350,000-square-foot (33,000 m 2 ), six-story, enclosed vertical power center in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. It opened as City Place Mall on April 2, 1992, [1] [2] and is located at the intersection of Fenton Street and Colesville Road ( U.S. Route 29 ). Dave and Buster's opened in November 2016.
Polychrome Historic District. / 39.01806°N 77.01583°W / 39.01806; -77.01583. The Polychrome Historic District is a national historic district in the Four Corners neighborhood in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland. It recognizes a group of five houses built by John Joseph Earley in 1934 and 1935. Earley used precast concrete ...
GNIS feature ID. 2389782 [2] Website. www .lwmc .com. Leisure World is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is an age-restricted, gated development primarily inhabited by retirees. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 9,215. [3]
A Quaker school, Sandy Spring Friends School, was established in 1961. In 1967 a Quaker retirement community, Friends House, was founded next to the school. The Sandy Spring Library opened behind the Sandy Spring Store in 1842. The Farmer's Club of Sandy Spring was established in 1844 to discuss preferable methods of farming.
Woodside Park is located just north of downtown of Silver Spring, one of the oldest suburbs of Washington, DC. Its boundaries are Georgia Avenue ( State Route 97) on the west, Spring Street to the South, Colesville Road ( US Route 29) to the east, and Dale Drive and Columbia Boulevard on the north. It also includes one block of Clement Road ...
Silver Spring station is a train station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro and the Brunswick Line of the MARC Train commuter rail system. The Metro station averaged 4,536 daily riders in 2023, making it the 19th-busiest stop in the network and the busiest in the state of Maryland. [3] Trains travelling south from the station quickly cross ...