The images in this group present views of the changing cityscape of Silver Spring, Maryland photographed from 2002 to 2021.
In 1840, a natural spring was discovered by Francis Preston Blair, that marks the origin of this unincorporated edge city, population 81,000. It is a place that thrived and expanded on a web of restrictive covenants that began to change in the sixties with the passage of an open accommodation act and in 1967 an open housing law. White flight began and the evisceration of downtown Silver Spring was compounded by the wounds brought by the increased thru traffic to the new outer suburbs. A slow process toward a very different place began in 1969.
