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Two years later, the 20-room mansion SilverSpring was built on a 250 acre (1 km²) country homestead situated just outside of Washington, D.C. By 1854, Blair's son, Montgomery Blair, who became Postmaster General under Abraham Lincoln, and represented Dred Scott before the United States Supreme Court built a house in the area, called Falkland.
Boundaries of the SilverSpring CDP as of 2003
In the Washington-Baltimore region, SilverSpring is the third-largest community, behind the cities of Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C., and ahead of Arlington, Virginia and Alexandria, Virginia.
Two years later, the 20-room mansion SilverSpring was built on a 250 acre (1 km²) country homestead situated just outside of Washington, D.C. By 1854, Blair's son, Montgomery Blair, who became Postmaster General under Abraham Lincoln, and represented Dred Scott before the United States Supreme Court built a house in the area, called Falkland.
In 1893, Francis Preston Blair Lee and his wife, Anne Brooke Lee, gave birth to E. Brooke Lee, who is known as the father of modern SilverSpring for his visionary attitude about developing the region.
The SilverSpring Armory, constructed in 1911, housed 115th Infantry Regiment (?) Maryland National Guard Company K, which Captain Lee commanded in World War I. Lee eventually retired a Colonel.
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