Montgomery Parks, Montgomery County, The Montgomery Parks Foundation and the Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail (CCCT) will name a new park plaza on the Capital Crescent Trail after the late Neal Potter, former Montgomery County Executive and six-term member of the County Council on November 3, 2018 at 10 a.m.
The public is welcome to attend!
The plaza is located at River Road on the Capital Crescent Trail, in the open space adjacent to the bridge.
Potter is known as one of the architects of the modern Montgomery County for his leadership in tax policy, land-use planning, and transportation. The "Neal Potter Plaza at the Capital Crescent Trail" will also honor the late David Burwell, co-founder of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and the late Lee Wick Dennison, an avid trail user whose generous donation to the Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail helped support the construction of the plaza.
A path leading from River Road to the plaza serves as a new entrance to the Capital Crescent Trail. The plaza will feature benches, two stone sitting walls, a pergola, trees, lawn areas, bike racks and a repair station. A three-panel kiosk will be installed with information about Potter, Burwell and Dennison as well as a map and historic photographs.
Sidenote:
For the first time ever, I noticed that their are railroad tracks embedded in Landy Lane next to the CCT.
Were they drunk installing that sidewalk in the above photo? Who wants to walk (or ride) in a squiggly line?
Posted by: Turtleshell | October 18, 2018 at 09:00 AM
The train tracks on Landy Lane are part of a spur that came off the CSX rail line that used to run down to Georgetown (and which the CCT currently follows). The spur served businesses next to the track, including the now Washington Episcopal School (WES). The WES building used to be the headquarters of Hot Shoppes and then Marriott. Before Hot Shoppes, it housed the Fuller Stone Company, which fashioned stone that was used in the Supreme Court Building and other buildings around Washington. I am the co-author of an article of this formerly African-American neighborhood that was published last year in the Washington History Journal.
Posted by: David Kathan | October 18, 2018 at 09:13 AM
Interesting, I figured they came of the CCT line, but I was surprised to see any tracks remaining anywhere. When the Branch stopped running they said there were two customers in Bethesda still - I wonder of Fuller Stone was one of them.
Posted by: washcycle | October 18, 2018 at 10:44 AM
What, the sidewalk looks totally straight to me.
Posted by: Crickey | October 19, 2018 at 11:27 AM