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Silver Spring Hit By Tornado 100 Years Ago Today
At approximately 3 p.m. on April 5, 1923, an unprecedented tornado tore through Silver Spring, injuring four people, destroying five houses, and partially wrecking a dozen others, but miraculously killing no one.
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Historic Preservation Office Opens Digital Archives of Photos, Historic Permits
The county’s Historic Preservation Office has opened up a new online archive system that allows users to search a digitized slide and photograph collection as well as digitized Historic Area Work Permits.
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All Ages Attended Talbot Avenue Bridge Lantern Walk
About 50 people braved the fall’s first blustery streak last Saturday to sing and carry lanterns across the Talbot Avenue Bridge in the inaugural Talbot Avenue Bridge Lantern Walk.
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Jubilee Voices to Headline Talbot Avenue Bridge Centennial Celebration
Andrea Blackford visited the Talbot Avenue Bridge for the first time in early August. The Silver Spring civil rights landmark made an immediate impression.
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In Search of the Lost Souls of “Silver Spring:” Coachman William Henry Lemon (ca. 1806/16 -1893)
Between 1850 and 1860, Francis Preston Blair, Sr. (1791-1876), advisor to U.S. presidents from Andrew Jackson to Ulysses S. Grant, enslaved up to 20 human beings at his Montgomery County home, “Silver Spring.”
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In Search of the Lost Souls of “Silver Spring”
It was a mild 61 degrees and a little before 8 p.m., April 17, 1917, when members of the Columbia Historical Society began to stream into the Gold Room of the Shoreham Hotel at the corner of 15th and H St., N.W., in Washington, D.C. Scheduled to speak that evening was Maj. Gist Blair, whose…