Aquia Creek
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Aquia Creek is a 27.6-mile-long (44.4 km)[1] tributary of the tidal segment of the Potomac River and is located in northern Virginia. The creek's headwaters lie in southeastern Fauquier County, and it empties into the Potomac at Brent Point in Stafford County, 45 miles (72 km) south of Washington, D.C.
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[edit] National Capitol Columns
The sandstone for the National Capitol Columns was quarried at Aquia Creek in the early 1800s, and transported to Washington on a barge.[2]
[edit] Aquia Creek in the Civil War
In an early American Civil War skirmish, the Battle of Aquia Creek, three US gunships fired on a battery garrison during the Union campaign to blockade Chesapeake Bay (May–June 1861). There were an estimated 10 casualties.[3]
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- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed August 15, 2011
- ^ "A Capitol Idea". Official website. The United States National Arboretum. 1 April 2010. http://www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/collections/columns.html. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ Battles, National Park Service
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Coordinates: 38°25′05.9″N 77°21′32.6″W / 38.418306°N 77.359056°W
