BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Silver Spring -- Burnt Mills Park

MD -- Silver Spring -- Burnt Mills Park:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. BURNT_110828_095.JPG: Rachel Carson: Ms. Rachel Louise Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, but spent most of her adult life in and around Montgomery County, Maryland. She was a renowned biologist and owed her love of nature to the encouragements of her month, from whom young Rachel learned the lore and magic of birds and insects, streams and ponds. She lived along this stream valley while she wrote her book, "Silent Spring." Rachel Carson was a scientist who had a remarkable talent for making complicated scientific information accessible. Her 1962 book, "Silent Spring", is widely acknowledged to have changed the way Americans think about the natural world, and is responsible for beginning the modern environmental movement. Her warnings about the dangers of pesticides led to the banning of DDT and other pesticides across the nation, along with the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970. Her message about the need for everyone to become stewards of the environment is just as compelling today as it was when she wrote the book.
2. BURNT_110828_107.JPG: Burnt Mills: This turbulent stream was the location of one of the county's earliest grist mills, which stood here starting in the 1700s. Originally called Bealle's Mill, it ground grain into flour for nearby residents. The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission built the Burnt Mills water filtration facility in 1929 to meet increasing demand for clean water in the rapidly-growing Washington DC suburbs. The two brick Colonial Revival buildings houses offices and pumping equipment. The structures reflect a design that was popular for houses in the late 1920s, and are an interesting adaption of a domestic look for a municipal structure. The Robert B Morse Filtration Plant: This site represents the revolutionary move from one era to another -- from the use of water in order to power simple machines for local production, to the multi-million dollar industry of protecting the public water supply for a large region. The small site helped made possible the enormous growth that suburbanization brought to our region.
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