Jerry,
The original Indian Spring was one of the greats. Bobby Brownell, who won the DC area championship 10 or 11 times in a row back in the 40s and 50s, told me that after Winged Foot, it was his favorite golf course. He was talking about the original Ross design which disappeared around 1940. Most of the older golfers around the area who recall Indian Spring remember the 1940-1955 version which was built after the Ross course was sold to a local entrepreneur who built homes on some of the holes and used the remaining land for a new golf course. In the mid-50s, he sold the course to the county and it was paved over by I495.
Ironically, when the club was sold in 1940, the membership pleaded with the owner to sell it to them. He refused - apparently he was fed up with them and their constant complaining - preferring to sell it to an owner who immediately began converting the course to housing. I've wondered that if the membership had been allowed to purchase the course if they would have had enough political clout to change the I495 design slightly and save the course. It certainly was possible.
In a fit of nostalgia last fall I walked around the old clubhouse and found one of Ross's original greensites. Absolutely nothing else is left.