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Photographer: Tom Fuchs
Taken: January 28, 2006
Caption: Blair House Mural
Additional Description: The plaque beneath the mural reads:
    In 1842, Francis Preston Blair built a country house very near this park and divided his time between his 300 acre farm and his city residence "Blair House", which is now the President's official guest house in Washington, D.C. Blair was a powerful newspaper publisher and a friend of President Andrew Jackson.
    Blair called his estate "Silver Spring", after a beautiful natural spring on the property which bubbled up through mica rock, giving it the appearance of being lined with silver. The town that grew up near Blair's farm became known as Silver Spring.
Submitted: February 5, 2006, by Tom Fuchs of Greenbelt, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p217
File Size: 2.838 Megabytes

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