Sandy Spring, Maryland
| Sandy Spring | |
|---|---|
 Location in the U.S. state of Maryland |
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| Coordinates: 39°08′58.3″N 77°01′34.42″W / 39.149528°N 77.0262278°WCoordinates: 39°08′58.3″N 77°01′34.42″W / 39.149528°N 77.0262278°W | |
| Country |  United States of America |
| State |
 Maryland
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| County |
 Montgomery
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| Settled | ca. 1715 |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 20860 |
| Area code(s) | 301, 240 |
Sandy Spring, Maryland is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Sandy Spring's boundaries are roughly Brooke Road and Dr. Bird Road to the north and west, Ednor Road to the south, and New Hampshire Avenue to the east.
The United States Census Bureau combines Sandy Spring with the nearby community of Ashton to form the census-designated place of Ashton-Sandy Spring, and all census data are tabulated for this combined entity.
The community was founded by Quakers who arrived in the early 18th century searching for land where they could grow tobacco and corn.
One of the very early land owners in the Sandy Spring area was Richard Snowden, who patented (purchased) the 1,000 acres (4 km2) "Snowden's Manor" in 1715. Snowden gradually enlarged his property with additional land purchases over the next few decades until it was surveyed at over 9,000 acres (36 km2) as "Snowden's Manor Enlarged" in 1743.
Another important early landowner, Major John Bradford, had patented over 2,000 acres (8 km2) in the Sandy Spring area, including "Charley Forest" in 1716, "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 22,000 acres (90 km2) by the 1760s.
The Quakers built their meeting house in 1814 near a fresh-water spring that gave its name to the community. 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.
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