Acorn Park

Acorn Park is thought to be the location of the spring that looked silver in the sunlight, thus the name Silver Spring.

Murials of Historic Silver Spring

Artist:  Mame Cohalon

Acorn Park is all that remains of Francis Preston Blair's estate, "Silver Spring," named after his discovery in 1840 of a nearby mica-speckled spring.  This park might be small, but it is chock-full of good stuff to see.  Nestled up to the first Silver Spring Discovery building (the old Caldor) is a quaint little park with an acorn gazebo and beautiful murals.  Discovery Communications is trying to rid us of the bad habit of referring to the building as the "old Caldor," but in this case it was actually the Caldor Company that commissioned the five-panel mural by artist Mame Cohalon and restored the gazebo and park.