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Takoma Park, city, Montgomery county, central Maryland, U.S., on Sligo Creek. It was founded in 1883 by real estate developer Benjamin F. Gilbert along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad track as a northern residential development for Washington, D.C. The Seventh-day Adventists arrived in the 1900s and made Takoma Park their headquarters (later moved to neighbouring Silver Spring). They founded Washington Training Institute (now Columbia Union College), a sanitarium (now Washington Adventist Hospital), and other institutions. The Takoma Park campus of Montgomery College was opened in 1950. Inc. town, 1890; city, 1948. Pop. (2000) 17,299; (2010) 16,715.

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demographics, the particular characteristics of a large population over a specific time interval. The word is derived from the Greek words for “people” (demos) and “picture” (graphy). Examples of demographic characteristics include age, race, gender, ethnicity, religion, income, education, home ownership, sexual orientation, marital status, family size, health and disability status, and psychiatric diagnosis.

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