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.
James Silver was an early settler in the area now known as Silver Spring Township which was organized as a Township bearing his name in 1757. The Township is situated on major east-west and north-south transportation routes, and shares the rich Revolutionary and Civil War heritage of the region.