B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing

Washington County, US

The B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing is a 15-acre (6.1 ha) historic site where a set of railroad bridges, originally built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, span the Potomac River between Sandy Hook, Maryland, and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The site was added to the National Register of Hi

storic Places on February 14, 1978, for its significance in commerce, engineering, industry, invention, and transportation. It is the site of multiple successive railroad bridges built between 1836 and 1931, including two still-active CSX bridges (1894 and 1931).

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