The denominational headquarters were later moved from Battle Creek to Takoma Park, Maryland, where they remained until 1989.

Hawn was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D. C., and attended Montgomery Blair High School in nearby Silver Spring, Maryland.

Takoma Park is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

Founded in 1883 and incorporated in 1890, Takoma Park, informally called " Azalea City ," is a Tree City USA and a nuclear-free zone.

Takoma Park was founded by Benjamin Franklin Gilbert in 1883.

Gilbert hired contractor Fred E. Dudley to build many of the home in Takoma Park.

Dudley's son Wentworth was the first child born in Takoma Park.

Takoma Park incorporated as a town on April 3, 1990.

In 1904, the Seventh-day Adventist Church purchased five acres of land in Takoma Park along Carroll Avenue, Laurel Avenue, and Willow Avenue.

The church purchased fifty acres of land along Sligo Creek in Takoma Park to build the new headquarters.

For many decades Takoma Park served as the world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, until it moved to northern Silver Spring in 1989.

This controversy also raised the profile of Takoma Park at a time in the late 1960s and 1970s when it was becoming noted regionally and nationally for political activism outside the Nation's capital, with newspaper commentators describing it as " The People's Republic of Takoma Park " or " The Berkeley of the East ".

While politically separate from Takoma Park, Maryland, it shares its history and much of its culture.

Much of the old town Takoma Park was incorporated into the Takoma Park Historic District ; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Before 1995, the eastern boundary of the city of Takoma Park was in Prince George's County, Maryland, causing the community to be divided across two counties and the Maryland / D. C.

For several years, Takoma Park lobbied the State of Maryland for legislation allowing county boundaries to be adjusted.

In August 1995, after passage of the law, the city held a public referendum asking registered voters living in three Prince George's County neighborhoods north of New Hampshire Avenue whether they wanted to be annexed to the city of Takoma Park.

Takoma Park is located just northeast of Washington, D. C.

Takoma Park sits on the edge of the Mid-Atlantic fall line and is thus quite hilly, with many narrow, gridded streets.

To reflect the campus expansion into Silver Spring, the Board of Trustees officially renamed the Takoma Park campus as the " Takoma Park / Silver Spring Campus " in June 2005.

The athletic teams are formally known as the Knights of the Rockville Campus, the Falcons of the Takoma Park / Silver Spring Campus, and the Gryphons of the Germantown Campus.

In the early 1990s Fantasy Records bought both Takoma and Kicking Mule from Denson and soon began to re-release selected LPs on CD.

Today, approximately 23, 000 people live in proximity to the Takoma / Langley Crossroads, including immigrants from an estimated 120 different countries, turning the area into one of the region ’ s most distinctive and broadly representative international communities.

Takoma shares a common identity with the neighboring city in Maryland, and the downtown area surrounding the Takoma Metro station crosses the District of Columbia line.

Developer B. F. Gilbert encouraged the Seventh-Day Adventist Church to set up their world headquarters in neighboring Takoma Park, Maryland, and promoted the community's reputation for vegetarianism and " clean living " away from the " malarial swamps " of the city.

Takoma Park is bounded by downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, a major urban center to the northwest, by Montgomery College campus ; East Silver Spring, a community of houses, apartments and small shops, along Flower Avenue and Piney Branch Road, to the north ; Langley Park, Maryland, a community of apartments and shopping centers, along University Boulevard to the northeast ; Chillum, Maryland, in Prince George's County to the southeast, bounded by New Hampshire Avenue, a state highway ; and Takoma, Washington, D. C. to the southwest, separated by Eastern Avenue, which follows the District of Columbia line.

The college has three campuses, the largest of which is in Rockville ; the other campuses are in Takoma Park / Silver Spring and Germantown.

The Takoma Park / Silver Spring campus is known for its nursing and allied health science career programs, and the Germantown campus is known for its science programs, including computer science and biotechnology.

* Renaissance Scholars Program ( at Germantown and Takoma Park / Silver Spring )

The " International Corridor ," a commercial zone along University Boulevard at the southern end of Langley Park, is close to the University of Maryland, College Park, Silver Spring, and Takoma Park.

The International Corridor or the Takoma / Langley Crossroads area is located at the intersection of University Boulevard ( Maryland Route 193 ) and New Hampshire Avenue ( Maryland Route 650 ), within proximity to the University of Maryland, College Park and the revitalized core of the Silver Spring Central Business District.

Takoma, D. C. was originally regarded as the commercial hub for the entire surrounding area, prior to the development of Silver Spring, as it featured large shops and industrial buildings in the area now occupied by the Metro station.

The land was roughly bounded by Caroll Avenue to the Big Spring ( now Takoma Junction ) and what is now Woodland Avenue.

It originally opened in 1925 as Takoma Park-Silver Spring High School.

According to one legend, Chief Powhatan, returning homeward from a battle near what is now Philadelphia, stopped at the Big Spring on Sligo Creek ( present-day Takoma Park, Maryland near Washington, DC ) to recuperate from his wounds in the medicinal waters there.

The exposition started in 2008 with 25 groups at the Takoma Park campus.

By the mid-2000s, it had become a center for MS-13 gang activity in the state, along with nearby Takoma Park.

Turetzky has appeared as a featured soloist in the major music centers of the world and is the most widely recorded solo doublebass player with seven albums on Advance, Ars Nova, Nonesuch, Takoma, Desto and Finnadar music labels.

Lindauer was arrested on March 11, 2004 in Takoma Park, Maryland and charged with " acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government ".

On June 22, 2009, a southbound Metro train on the Red Line collided with another southbound train, which was stopped between the Takoma and Fort Totten stations, causing the deadliest accident in the system's history.

Map of Washington, D. C., with Takoma highlighted in red.

Along Eastern Avenue, the boundary of the District of Columbia, the neighborhood borders the city of Takoma Park, Maryland, with which it shares its origins.

FairVote is a U. S. non-profit organization based in Takoma Park, Maryland, whose mission is to achieve universal access to participation, a full spectrum of meaningful ballot choices and majority rule with fair representation for all.

Bill Cole ( right ) performing with Warren Smith ( jazz musician ) | Warren Smith in October 2005, Takoma Park, Maryland | Takoma Park, MD.

Angier lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, with her husband, Rick Weiss, former Washington Post science and medical reporter and current Assistant Director for Strategic Communications and Senior Policy Analyst at the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, and their daughter.