Acorn Urban Park — Attraction in Maryland

Acorn Urban Park is a tiny park in downtown Silver Spring with a big history. On this site is where Preston Blair, a newspaper editor, discovered a mica-flecked spring that inspired the name Silver Spring. The land was part of Blair's plantation. On it, he built an acorn gazebo in the middle of the 19t century in honor of where he proposed to his wife. The gazebo still stands in the park today. There are murals along the park that depict the history of Silver Spring. There are a few benches to sit and enjoy...

It's a small urban park with rotonda and what's used to be a stream which gave the name of Silver Spring. Currently the park is going under renovation.

Right now (March 2021) park is a part of outside dining in MoCo - There are 6 or 7 dining tables along with heated tent open until 8 or 9 PM. Pretty good spot to enjoy your carry out or delivery especially with a good...

Adorable, tiny urban green space with a splash of history (murals on the wall with small plaques about the historical Blair Maryland family, and the original source of the "silver spring" after which the surrounding city is named). Benches, historical acorn-shaped gazebo, no...