Editing Sandy Spring, Maryland (section)

==History==
[[File:SandySpringFriendsMeetingHouse_SW.jpg|thumb|Sandy Spring Friends Meeting House]]
[[File:Sandy_Spring_Friends_Meeting_House_history.jpg|thumb|Chronology of the Sandy Spring Friends Meeting House]]
The community was founded by [[Quaker]]s who arrived in the early 18th century<ref name= wp>{{cite news |title= Where We Live: Sandy Spring, Md., is where FDR and Herbert Hoover played |newspaper= The Washington Post |first= Tony |last= Glaros |page= RE3 |date= October 4, 2014 |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/where-we-live-sandy-spring-md-where-fdr-and-herbert-hoover-played/2014/10/02/6a5c8a44-3847-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html }}</ref> searching for land where they could grow [[tobacco]] and [[maize|corn]].

One of the very early land owners in the Sandy Spring area was [[Richard Snowden (ironmaster)|Richard Snowden]], who patented (purchased) the {{convert|1000|acre|km2|sigfig=1}} "Snowden's Manor" in 1715.<ref name= notable>{{cite news |title= Notable Neighborhood: The History And Traditions Of Sandy Spring |first= Lucy Meacham |last= Thruston |work= The Baltimore Sun |date= December 24, 1905 |page= 8 |id= {{ProQuest|537095830}} }}</ref> Snowden gradually enlarged his property with additional land purchases over the next few decades until it was surveyed at over {{convert|9000|acre|km2}} as "Snowden's Manor Enlarged" in 1743.

Another important early landowner, Major John Bradford, had patented over {{convert|2000|acre|km2|sigfig=1}} in the Sandy Spring area, including "Charley Forest" in 1716,<ref name= notable/> "Charley Forest Enlarged", "Higham", and "Discovery." Bradford sold off large parts of these properties, but Snowden's son-in-law, James Brooke, later bought up the original Charley Forest land as well as other land in the area, eventually owning over {{convert|22000|acre|km2|sigfig=1}} by the 1760s.<ref>{{cite book |first1= Hiebert Ray |last1= Eldon |first2= Richard K. |last2= MacMaster |title= A Grateful Remembrance: The Story of Montgomery County, Maryland |location= Rockville, Maryland |publisher= Montgomery County Government and the Montgomery County Historical Society |date= 1976 }}</ref>

The Quakers built their current brick [[Friends meeting house|meeting house]] in 1817, replacing a 1770 frame meeting house. Quakers first began worshiping in the area circa 1753.<ref name= notable/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106777868 | title=Sandy Spring Friends Meeting House National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form | page=2 | last=Moore | first=Brook | website=National Archives Catalog | publisher=United States Department of the Interior National Park Service | access-date=12 March 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/Montgomery/M;%2028-11.pdf | title=Sandy Spring Historic District Determination of Eligibility Form | page=2 | last=Trieschmann | first=Laura | website=Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties | publisher=Maryland Historical Trust | access-date=12 March 2021 }}</ref> The site is near a fresh-water spring that gave its name to the community.<ref name= wp/> The location of this meeting house in the village of Sandy Spring helped to define the geographic extent of the greater Sandy Spring neighborhood of the time, comprising those areas from which members of the Meeting could travel to and from the meeting house by horse or carriage in one day, arriving home before sunset. The greater Sandy Spring neighborhood thus includes the current communities of Brookeville, Olney, Norbeck, Ednor, Brighton, and other communities within a six-mile radius of the meeting house.<ref>Canby, Thomas Y. and Elie S. Rogers (1979). ''Sandy Spring Legacy''. Sandy Spring: Sandy Spring Museum.</ref>

In the late 19th century the community started a local school called the Sherwood Academy. This school was turned over to the Government of [[Montgomery County, Maryland|Montgomery County]] in 1906 to become [[Sherwood High School (Maryland)|Sherwood High School]], the county's third public high school. A Quaker school, [[Sandy Spring Friends School]], was established in 1961. In 1967 a Quaker retirement community, Friends House, was founded next to the school. 
The Sandy Spring Library opened behind the Sandy Spring Store in 1842.<ref name= notable/> The Farmer's Club of Sandy Spring was established in 1844 to discuss preferable methods of farming.<ref name= notable/>

A 1901 Department of Labor study documented hundreds of residents who trace their lineage 125 years to [[free black]] families.<ref>{{cite news |title= THE Negroes of Sandy Spring |work= The Baltimore Sun |date= February 15, 1901 |page= 4 |id= {{ProQuest|536271700}} }}</ref>

===Benjamin Hallowell===
[[Benjamin Hallowell (educator)|Benjamin Hallowell]] (educator) (1799–1887) was a prominent Quaker in 19th century Sandy Spring. As an educator, he taught at Fair Hill in Olney, then taught in Virginia. He lived at Rockland in Olney. His farm is now the Hallowell housing development. He briefly served as the first president of the Maryland Agricultural College (later to become the [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]].) He was integral in forming the Sandy Spring Farmer's Club and the Mutual Fire Insurance Company.<ref>Canby, Thomas Y. and Elie S. Rogers (1979). ''Sandy Spring Legacy''.  Sandy Spring: Sandy Spring Museum.</ref>

===Dr. Bird===
[[Dr Jacob Wheeler Bird]] was born in [[Anne Arundel County]] in 1885.<ref name= bird>{{citation |title= Automobiles in Early Twentieth Century Montgomery County |first= Patricia Abelard |last= Andersen |page= 18 |work= The Montgomery County Story |volume= 54 |number= 2 |date= Winter 2011 }}</ref> He attended [[St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe)|St. John's College]] in [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]], and he earned his medical degree from the [[University of Maryland, Baltimore]] in 1907.<ref name= bird/>

In 1909, Dr. Bird moved to Sandy Spring to set up his medical practice on the road now named for him, Dr. Bird Road.<ref name= bird/>  He also established the first hospital located in Montgomery County, now called [[MedStar Montgomery Medical Center|Montgomery General Hospital]].<ref name= bird/>

During his fifty-year medical career, Dr. Bird made house calls to his patients, at first in a horse-drawn buggy and later an automobile.<ref name= bird/>  He founded [[Montgomery General Hospital]] in February 1920.

Dr. Bird and his wife died in an automobile accident in Alabama on October 25, 1959.<ref name= bird/>

===Sandy Spring Museum===
[[File:Sandy Spring Museum Sign in Sandy Spring MD.jpg|thumb|The sign for the Sandy Spring Museum in Sandy Spring, Maryland as photographed in September 2020.]]
An insurance salesman and auctioneer named Delmas Wood started the [[Sandy Spring Museum]] in 1980 because he thought Sandy Spring's history was gradually being lost as older residents died.<ref name= meyer>{{cite news |title= Museum and Residents Bear Witness To Quaker Tradition of Sandy Spring |first= Eugene L. |last= Meyer |newspaper= The Washington Post |date= October 10, 1985 |page= MD1 |url= https://www.proquest.com/docview/138493297/0 }}</ref> Wood wanted a place to preserve antique furniture, farm equipment, photographs, paintings, and documents of the Sandy Spring area.<ref name= past>{{cite news |title= A Window Into Town's Past |last= Bernstein |first= Adam |newspaper= The Washington Post |date= August 24, 2000 |page= M21 |url= https://www.proquest.com/docview/408669584/ }}</ref> Florence Virginia Barrett Lehman also helped found the museum.<ref name= Lehman>{{cite news |title= Florence Lehman, a former Herald reporter, at 84 |format= obituary |work= Boston Herald |date= March 4, 1996 |url= http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_product=AWNB&p_theme=aggregated5&p_action=doc&p_docid=1026991DBB26DC3D&p_docnum=4&p_queryname=2 }}</ref>

The museum was originally located in the basement of a [[Sandy Spring Bank|Sandy Spring National Bank]] branch in [[Olney, Maryland|Olney]].<ref name= town/> In October 1986,<ref name= guide>{{cite news |title= Maryland Museum Guide |last= Kessler |first= Pamela |newspaper= The Washington Post |date= June 6, 1986 |page= M14 |url= https://www.proquest.com/docview/139043435/ }}</ref> it moved to Tall Timbers, a brick four-story [[American colonial architecture|Colonial]] house that had been the home of Gladys Brooke Tumbleson, who had died earlier that year.<ref name= meyer/> Tumbleson descended from the Brooke family, for which nearby [[Brookeville, Maryland|Brookeville]] was named.<ref name= meyer/> Tumbleson sold the building to the museum for less than market value.<ref name= meyer/>

Helen Bentley donated {{convert|7.5|acres|m2}} of land on Bentley Road in Sandy Spring to the museum in 1994.<ref name= past/> The museum's new building on opened in 1997, providing more room for the museum's exhibits.<ref name= town>{{cite news |title= Town's Quaker Roots A Calming Influence |last= Ruben |first= Barbara |newspaper= The Washington Post |date= September 8, 2001 |page= J1 |url= https://www.proquest.com/docview/409140595/ }}</ref>

In 2007, an addition opened, providing a research library and a collections storage facility for the museum.<ref name= ourstory>{{cite web |title= Our Story |work= Sandy Spring Museum |access-date= October 28, 2015 |url= http://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/about-us/our-story/ }}</ref>