Enos Slaughter was a right fielder in the Major League Baseball that is best remembered for his glory days as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals.
White Oak is home to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the Federal Research Center, a growing biotech hub in the Silver Spring area of Montgomery County. Named after the Maryland state tree, White Oak was formerly home to the Naval Ordnance Laboratory.
Residents of a large swath of South-Eastern Montgomery County have Silver Spring mailing addresses. This area extends roughly from the Washington, D.C., Prince George's County, Maryland and Howard County, Maryland lines to the west,north and east, and Rock Creek Park and Plyers Mill Road to the west and north-west. These boundaries make Silver Spring larger in area than any city in Maryland except for Baltimore.