A piece of Silver Spring history – more than a century old – has been returned to the community.
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Jerry A. McCoy, president of the Silver Spring Historical Society, writes on his blog on Silver Spring Patch that a cast iron Silver Spring sign was recently returned to the town after being stored at the Brunswick (MD) Heritage Museum.
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McCoy writes that the Silver Spring sign was 93 pounds and “It is theorized that the sign was positioned parallel to the single Baltimore & Ohio Railroad ‘Metropolitan Branch’ track bed that ran through Silver Spring up until the late 1880s/early 1890s when double tracks commenced to be laid from Washington to Gaithersburg.”
The sign will be displayed at the 1945 B & 0 Railroad Station, 8100 Georgia Ave., according to McCoy.
Anyone with more information about the sign is encouraged to contact McCoy at 301.537.1253 or sshistory@yahoo.com.
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