Fort Buffalo

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Nearby once stood Fort Buffalo. This earthwork fortification was built by the 21st New York Infantry of the Union army in 1861 and named for the troops' hometown. During the Civil War, a concentration of forts existed in the Seven Corners section of Falls Church. These structures were used in the Federal defense of Washington. First occupied by Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell's troops during the First Manassas Campaign, the fort was briefly occupied by the Confederates following that Federal defeat in July 1861. In the 1950s, Seven Corners shopping center and the surrounding community was developed on land once part of and surrounding Fort Buffalo.

Department of Historic Resources, 2000

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Benjamin Franklin Cooling, III and Walter H. Owen, Mr. Lincoln’s Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington (Shippensburg, Pa. : White Mane Pub. Co., 1988), 110; Cecil D. Eby, Jr. (ed.), A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War: The Diaries of David Hunter Strother (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1961), 99-100; Nan Netherton, Donald Sweig, Janice Artemel, Patricia Hickin and Patricia Reed, Fairfax County, Virginia: A History (Fairfax, County, Va.: Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, 1978), 633; Ross and Nan Netherton, Fairfax County in Virginia: A Pictorial History (Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company, 1986), 64-69; Jane Chapman Whitt, Elephants and Quaker Guns: A History of Civil War and Circus Days (New York and Washington: Vantage Press, 1966), 63-65.