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Acorn Park is a urban park in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, which features an acorn-shaped gazebo and an artificial grotto. The site is historically significant as it is thought to be the location of the "mica-flecked spring" that in 1840 inspired Francis Preston Blair to name his estate "Silver Spring".〔 〕 Acorn Park is located at the intersection of East-West Highway and Newell Street. ==History== The gazebo in Acorn Park was constructed in 1842〔 〕 by Benjamin C. King. Francis Blair's son-in-law, Samuel Phillips Lee, had the stone grotto built at the site of the spring in 1894. It originally included a statue of a Greek nymph.〔 The park land was purchased by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission in 1942 and was refurbished and rededicated in 1955.〔 A small additional tract of land was acquired by M-NCPPC in 1997 to make the current . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Acorn Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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