City of Takoma Park

Takoma Park is a city of 18,000 people in , . It is a suburb of Washington D.C. Takoma Park is known for its Bohemian atmosphere and progressiveness, and has been called the "Berkeley of the East" and "The People's Republic of Takoma Park."…
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Silver Spring station and Takoma Park Branch Library.

Historic building
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former train station on the Metropolitan Subdivision in in . It was built in 1945 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on the foundation of a previous station, a Victorian-style brick structure built in 1878.

Library
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
The Takoma Park Neighborhood Library is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library System that serves the neighborhood. It opened in 1911.

Community center
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is a community center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Silver Spring and Brookland-Petworth-Takoma.

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is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, . It is considered to be an "edge city". It sits next door to Washington, DC, and had about 82,000 residents in 2018.

Brookland, Petworth, and Takoma are three relatively quiet neighborhoods east of Rock Creek Park. Following the "White Flight" after desegregation and the 1968 riots, these neighborhoods were left underpopulated, overwhelmingly African-American, and much less wealthy than the , just across Rock Creek Park.

City of Takoma Park

Latitude
38.9811° or 38° 58′ 52″ north
Longitude
-77.0027° or 77° 0′ 10″ west
Population
16,700
Elevation
240 feet (73 metres)
Open location code
87C4XXJW+CW
Geo­Names ID
7316552
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Notable Places Nearby

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