Aquia Creek
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Aquia Creek (Template:IPAc-en) is a Script error: No such module "convert".[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, Script error: No such module "convert". south of Washington, D.C.
The White House was built largely using sandstone quarried from Aquia Creek from 1792 to 1799.[2]
History
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In an early American Civil War skirmish, the Battle of Aquia Creek, three Union gunships fired on a battery garrison during the Union campaign to blockade Chesapeake Bay between May and June 1861. There were an estimated ten casualties.[3]
See also
References
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Template:Webarchive, accessed August 15, 2011
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- ↑ Battles , National Park Service
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