Acorn Park
Acorn Park is a  urban park in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, which features an acorn-shaped gazebo and an artificial grotto. 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". Acorn Park is located at the intersection of East-West Highway and Newell Street. History
The gazebo in Acorn Park was constructed in 1842 by Benjamin C. King. Francis Blair's son-in-law, Samuel Phillips Lee, had the stone grotto built at the site of the spring in 1894. It originally included a statue of a Greek nymph. The park land was purchased by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission in 1942 and was refurbished and rededicated in 1955. A small additional tract of land was acquired by M-NCPPC in 1997, to make the current . Gallery

References

External links

 
 Acorn Urban Park on the Parks and Trails Atlas of Montgomery County, Maryland

1942 establishments in Maryland
Protected areas established in 1942
Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland
Parks in Montgomery County, Maryland
Acorns