Images of America: Historic Silver Spring celebrates the community\'s past, beginning with founder Francis Preston Blair\'s 1840 discovery of the mica-flecked Spring and the 1873 arrival of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
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Vintage photographs document the progressive growth of the "Main Streets," Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road, and the construction of the Silver Spring Armory and National Dry Cleaning Institute in 1927 and the Silver Theatre and Silver Spring Shopping Center in 1938.
Images of America: Historic Silver Spring celebrates the community\'s past, beginning with founder Francis Preston Blair\'s 1840 discovery of the mica-flecked Spring and the 1873 arrival of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad