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Woodside Park is a neighborhood located in Silver Spring, Maryland, in the United States. Silver Spring is the name of several places in the United States of America: Silver Spring, Maryland Silver Spring, Pennsylvania These are distinguished from places named Silver Springs. ...
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Early history
Woodside Park began as the Alton Farm, country estate of Crosby Noyes, a prominent Washingtonian and owner of the Washington Star newspapers around the turn of the century. Upon his death, his will gave the land to his sons, who immediately sold it to development. Developers divided the farm into lots of approximately one acre each, though most original lots were later divided into even smaller parcels. The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. between 1852 and 1982. ...
Location Woodside Park is located in Silver Spring, one of the oldest suburbs of Washington, DC. Its boundaries are roughly Georgia Avenue (State Route 97) on the west, Spring Street to the South, Colesville Road (US Route 29) to the east, and from there Dale Drive to the north, then following Woodland Drive to Grace Church Road. It does, however, include Clement Road and Clement Place on the northern side of Dale Drive. It borders the neighborhoods of Woodside, Woodside Forest, North Woodside, and South Woodside Park. It also shares a boundary with the Silver Spring business district. Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...
The Park Woodside park is characterized by its parklike setting, including roads that followed the countours of the land, and not a grid, as well as a number of streams. Most of these streams, however, have been moved underground into pipes. THe styles of homes in the neighborhood vary, including almost every type of architecture found in America from the 1920s to the present day. Woodside park maintains the Woodside Park Civic Association (WPCA), which publishes a monthly newsletter, called The Vo!ce from September through June. It also sponsors an "Oktoberfest" for Hallowe'en with pumpkin carving and costumes in October, as well as an annual picnic in June. The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ...
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