A community meeting to discuss the new neighborhood park coming to Lyttonsville in Silver Spring will be held by Montgomery Parks at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 30, at the Gwendolyn E. Coffield Community Recreation Center in Silver Spring. The park design is the result of dialogue between planners and the Lyttonsville community during two previous meetings.
Gwendolyn E. Coffield Community Recreation Center is located at 2450 Lyttonsville Rd. in Silver Spring.
The meeting also can be viewed online via Zoom. The link will be MoCoParks.org/LCM. The phone number will be 301-715-8592. The Webinar ID is 876 4684 3272.
The new park will create a neighborhood green, and a rest stop along the Capital Crescent Trail. The park concepts were developed based on the preferred program priorities and feedback from the community.
At the meeting on March 30, the design development plan, which includes a bridge memorial and refinements from the prior concepts, will be presented.
Lyttonsville is a historic community, founded in the 1850s by a free African American laborer Samuel Lytton. The one-lane Talbot Bridge crossed the CSX railroad tracks, linking the community with the rest of Silver Spring. The 100-year-old bridge was demolished in 2019. The bridge girders will be incorporated into the new park to commemorate the history and culture of Greater Lyttonsville.