Aquia Landing
Port, Stafford County, Virginia.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Port
- Where
- Stafford County, Virginia
- Years
- 1862-1864
- Today
- Park
AQUIA LANDING
Potomac River port and northern terminus of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad. Burnside's troops wrecked it in 1862. Haupt's Construction Corps rebuilt the wharf and the line to Fredericksburg, and from November 1862 cars loaded at Alexandria arrived on barges and ran on to Falmouth.
Then
Northern terminus of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad and a Potomac River port. Haupt's Construction Corps rebuilt about 1,000 feet of wharf and the line to Fredericksburg, and from November 1862 rail cars loaded at Alexandria arrived on barges and ran on to Falmouth without breaking bulk.
Burnside's troops wrecked the landing and its rail link in 1862 to deny it to the Confederates. The Union rebuilt both for the Fredericksburg campaign.
Now
Park
The site is a waterfront park in Stafford County known again as Aquia Landing.
Lines owned by CSX run through Stafford County today.
Served by
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