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The Talbot Avenue bridge, Lyttonsville's link across the colour line
Lyttonsville, Silver Spring, Maryland
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Dan Reed from Silver Spring, MD · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Lyttonsville was founded before the Civil War by a free Black laborer, and for decades the bridge over the B and O tracks was its only direct link to a Silver Spring where Black residents could work but not live. The 1918 span carried that traffic until Purple Line construction took it out. A third bridge opened on the site in 2024 and carries the Capital Crescent Trail.
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