Near South Railroad Avenue (U.S. 221) just south of Broad Street, on the left when traveling south.
Montgomery County was cut from Washington County in 1793 First Court held in William Neal’s House 1794 (now in Emanuel Co.)Later sites • Arthur Lott’s Plantation on Ohoopee 1797-1801; • Near Ebenezer Church (now Emanuel Co.) 1802-1812; • . . . — — Map (db m185264) HM
Brick Is Enduring. In 1931, the Lansdale, PA engineer Frank HM Klinge published the Atlas of Montgomery County; Volume One. Real estate atlases were created to assist fire insurance companies in assessing the risk associated with insuring a . . . — — Map (db m75302) HM
On Georgia Washington Road at Antioch Lane, on the right when traveling south on Georgia Washington Road.
Miss Georgia Washington founded the Peoples Village School for black students on this site in 1893. Georgia Washington was born a slave November 23, 1851 in Virginia. As a student at Hampton Institute, Virginia, she met Dr. Booker T. . . . — — Map (db m72010) HM
On Franklin Street 0 miles south of Haralson Street, on the right when traveling north.
George Michael Troup was born September 8, 1780 and died April 26, 1856. During Troup's tenure as Governor of Georgia (1823-1827), Troup County was created on December 16, 1826. Boundaries of original Troup County extended from the Flint River on . . . — — Map (db m11684) HM
On Georgia Avenue (U.S. 29) south of Bonifant Street when traveling south.
Silver Spring's First Movie Theater, the 500-seat SECO (Suburban Electric Company), which opened on November 7, 1927 with the silent film "Fireman Save My Child," was located at 8242-8244 Georgia Avenue. The theater, renamed Roth's Silver . . . — — Map (db m125279) HM
Near West Brazell Street (U.S. 280) at Church Street, on the right when traveling west.
This County, created by Act of the Legislature Dec. 5, 1801, is named for Josiah Tattnall, Governor of Georgia at the time, who signed the Act. There being no town in the new County, the Act provided that all public business be transacted at the . . . — — Map (db m170739) HM
On Georgia Avenue (U.S. 97) at Cameron Street, on the right when traveling south on Georgia Avenue.
From 1946 to 2000, Tastee Diner's 24-hour service could be enjoyed three blocks south at 8516 Georgia Avenue. Designated a Montgomery County Master Plan Historic Preservation site in 1994, this classic Streamline Moderne-style diner was . . . — — Map (db m157692) HM
On Georgia Avenue (U.S. 29) at Silver Spring Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Georgia Avenue.
In 1912 John H. and Thomas Hunter opened Hunter Bros., a hardware and implements business, on what John described as "the most lonesome spot between Glenmont and the city of Washington." Housed in a two-story wood frame structure, the hardware . . . — — Map (db m67613) HM
On Georgia Avenue (Maryland Route 97) at Sligo Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Georgia Avenue.
The Establishment of Silver Spring's first bank and Newspaper, traditional institutions required for a community to grow and prosper, occurred on this corner with the opening of the Silver Spring National Bank in 1910 and publication of The . . . — — Map (db m62165) HM
On Georgia Avenue (U.S. 29) at Bonifant Street, on the right when traveling south on Georgia Avenue.
Silver Spring During the Civil War
If you has used our post office between 1937 and 1981 you would have seen a mural depicting a possible Civil War scenario.
Opened on March 1, 1937, the Georgian Revival style Silver Spring post office at . . . — — Map (db m76411) HM
On Georgia Avenue (Route 29) at Ripley Street when traveling south on Georgia Avenue.
"Three ace promoters of Silver Spring in those days [1920s & 30s], they had a finger in almost every pie." So wrote editor Blair Lee III in August 29, 1947 Maryland News describing his father E. Brooke Lee, James H. Cissel and Frank L. . . . — — Map (db m75761) HM
On Georgia Avenue (U.S. 29) at Ripley Street when traveling south on Georgia Avenue.
"Buy 'em by the Bag," the motto urged. For more than half a century, hamburger-hungry customers came to Maryland's first Little Tavern to do just that.
Harry F. Duncan founded Little Tavern Shops, Inc., which specialized in 5¢ little . . . — — Map (db m75468) HM
On Ranch to Market Road 187 1 mile north of Waresville Cemetery Road, on the left when traveling north.
Capt. William Ware was born in 1800 to Joseph and Elizabeth Ware in Kentucky (Georgia in some sources). In 1828, he and his wife, Ann Murphy, and their three children moved to Montgomery County, Texas. From there, Ware raised a military company in . . . — — Map (db m155556) HM
On Columbus Street 0.1 miles west of North Decatur Street, on the left when traveling west.
Side 1
Abram Mordecai
1755-1849
Born October 24, 1755 in Pennsylvania; settled 1783 in Georgia where he became a successful trader among the Cusseta Indians. First U.S. citizen to settle (1785) in what became Montgomery County. . . . — — Map (db m71357) HM
Near Briar Lane 0.1 miles west of Ryan Road, on the right when traveling west.
John W. Ray, his wife, Martha; their infant son; and her fifteen-year-old brother, James R. Conyers, moved to Mt. Meigs from Greene County, Georgia. He and his older brother, Isaac Ray, owned extensive landholdings along Vaughn and Taylor Roads. . . . — — Map (db m86473) HM
Silver Spring's heyday as a commercial center began in 1938 with the opening of the Silver Theatre and Shopping complex, designed by John Eberson. These streamlined buildings housed a wide variety of shops, as well as a 1,100 seat movie theatre, and . . . — — Map (db m76002) HM
On East McElroy Road 0.3 miles State Highway 18, on the left when traveling west.
Here between the landmark known as Round Mountains to the south and a camp on Salt Creek three miles to the northwest was fought the first battle of the Civil War in Oklahoma.
When the five civilized tribes of the Indian Territory joined the . . . — — Map (db m209523) HM
On Mount Mariah Road 0.1 miles north of Mock Lane, on the right when traveling north.
Born in Georgia, Jacob Montgomery Shannon (1804-1878) came to Texas at the age of 17, while the region was under Mexican rule. He married Catherine "Kittie" Yoakum in 1823, and in 1831 Shannon received a league of land in this vicinity, where he . . . — — Map (db m207379) HM
On North Prairie Street, on the right when traveling north.
In the early 1800s, settlers coming from the Carolinas and Georgia received land grants and some purchased land from the Indians. They settled and cleared the forest for new farms and plantations in what would become a newly formed State of Alabama . . . — — Map (db m83258) HM
Mr. Sidney Randolph, a Black Georgia native in his mid-twenties was lynched in Rockville on July 4, 1896, allegedly by a group of white men from Montgomery County. Randolph was suspected of attacking the Buxton family of Gaithersburg and killing . . . — — Map (db m269624) HM
On Forest Glen Road at Georgia Avenue ( Route 97), on the left when traveling west on Forest Glen Road.
On June 8, 1966, fair housing activists with the Action Coordinating Committee to End Segregation in the Suburbs (ACCESS) began a 66-mile march around the Capital Beltway.
They started at the Georgia Avenue exit and walked for four . . . — — Map (db m261888) HM
On Georgia Avenue (Maryland Route 97) at Wayne Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Georgia Avenue.
With a burst of new development in 1927, downtown Silver Spring's commercial center -- originally located around the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station (8100 Georgia Avenue at Sligo Avenue) -- firmly re-established itself three blocks to the north. . . . — — Map (db m62161) HM
Near Zion Road south of Sundown Road, on the right when traveling north.
The streams of Montgomery County's Piedmont Region run faster and deeper than those of the Coastal Plain. Steam power fueled the early industrial age in Montgomery County in the late-18th and 19th centuries. Mills along the Hawlings River stream . . . — — Map (db m114415) HM
PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN
wrote in his diary on January 3, 1952: “The Baltimore & Ohio [B&O] Station was new, on a double track. Great business houses were on both sides of the track, thick as they could be. When I came to Washington on . . . — — Map (db m304917) HM
Near Woodside Lane north of Graystone Pl, on the right when traveling north.
The Rev. James McLemore, his wife Elizabeth Harper McLemore,
and their families migrated to this area from Jones County,
Georgia, in 1817. McLemore was a missionary Baptist preacher and
founded three Baptist churches in Montgomery County. He . . . — — Map (db m266024) HM
On Mobile Highway north of Young Drive, on the right when traveling south.
Born on July 7, 1937, in Calhoun, Alabama, Richard C. Boone
devoted his life to the causes of civil and human rights. He joined the Air Force at the age of sixteen and following his service received a degree in political science and history from . . . — — Map (db m155066) HM
On Brooke Road 0.1 miles west of Chandlee Mill Road, on the right when traveling west.
Mysteries of the Hopkins House
Set back from the main road at the end of a gravel driveway, stands the Hopkins House at 18465 Brooke Road. The oldest part of this house, of log construction, is a two-story, gable-roofed structure that runs . . . — — Map (db m188281) HM
Near Georgia Avenue (U.S. 29) south of Colesville Road (U.S. 29), on the right when traveling north.
The 1938 Silver Theatre and Silver Spring Shopping Center complex is a landmark of early 20th-century commercial architecture. It profoundly affected the development of suburban Silver Spring as well as helped shape the growth of the region. It . . . — — Map (db m113018) HM
On South 2nd Street at Union Street, on the right when traveling south on South 2nd Street.
The Spur Line Park was conceived to preserve and enhance
a portion of a historic area within the city and interpret its unique
connection with rail and water transportation. The development of
railroad and river commerce was essential to . . . — — Map (db m122959) HM
(West face)
[Confederate States of America Emblem]
Dedicated to the glory and
honor of the Montgomery
County soldiers of the
Confederate States of America
for their unparalleled courage
and gallantry in defense of their
homeland and . . . — — Map (db m22220) WM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
