The Talbot Avenue Bridge Committee consists of residents of Lyttonsville, North Woodside, and Rosemary Hills, the three Silver Spring, Maryland communities adjacent to and connected by the bridge. Our mission is to:
- Preserve saved parts of the historic Talbot Avenue Bridge (1918-2019);
- Educate about the history of the bridge and racial segregation in Silver Spring;
- Organize social events that build community between neighbors connected by the bridge; and
- Serve as a resource for others working on related projects.
We want to ensure that important parts of Silver Spring’s history are not erased.
The Committee is an outgrowth of the Talbot Avenue Bridge Centennial Planning Committee and subsequent bridge-related events that neighbors connected by the bridge organized leading up to the historic Talbot Avenue Bridge’s demolition in Summer 2019: the Talbot Avenue Bridge Lantern Walk (November 2018); Silver Spring: A Sundown Suburb in the Capital’s Gateway, a talk by public historian David Rotenstein (April 2019); the Talbot Avenue Bridge Spring Party (May 2019); and, on the eve of the Bridge’s closure, the Talbot Avenue Bridge Candlelight Vigil (June 2019).
Since 2018, we have organized the annual Talbot Avenue Bridge Lantern Walk, a family-friendly community event that weaves together neighborhoods once divided by racial segregation and fittingly takes place during Montgomery County’s Remembrance and Reconciliation Month.
We have also successfully advocated–in partnership with the Lyttonsville, North Woodside, and Rosemary Hills civic associations–for the design and funding of the future Lyttonsville Neighborhood Park, which is to include a Bridge Memorial constructed from the historic Talbot Avenue Bridge’s steel girders.
Contact us via email at talbotavenuebridgecommittee@gmail.com or by phone:
Pat Tyson (Lyttonsville) at 301-588-1475 (no texts, please)
Anna White (North Woodside) at 240-795-0129
Eva Santorini (Rosemary Hills) at 240-893-3244
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