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Freestone Point Confederate Battery

Freestone Point Confederate Battery
FREESTONE POINT CONFEDERATE BATTERY, PRINCE WILLIAM CO. VA.jpg
Freestone Point Confederate Battery is located in Northern Virginia
Freestone Point Confederate Battery
Freestone Point Confederate Battery is located in Virginia
Freestone Point Confederate Battery
Freestone Point Confederate Battery is located in the US
Freestone Point Confederate Battery
Location At the Potomac River off State Route 610 in Leesylvania State Park, Woodbridge, Virginia
Coordinates 38°35′34″N 77°14′57″W / 38.59278°N 77.24917°W / 38.59278; -77.24917Coordinates: 38°35′34″N 77°14′57″W / 38.59278°N 77.24917°W / 38.59278; -77.24917
Area 11 acres (4.5 ha)
Built 1861 (1861)
MPS Civil War Properties in Prince William County MPS
NRHP reference # 89001059
VLR # 076-0264
Significant dates
Added to NRHP August 18, 1989
Designated VLR February 21, 1989

Freestone Point Confederate Battery is a historic American Civil War gun emplacement located at Leesylvania State Park, Woodbridge, Prince William County, Virginia. The battery has four individual gun emplacements, which are fairly simple in configuration. All are formed by a large, deep, rectangular depression with high earthen berms built up on the north and south side of each depression. Three of the batteries are located on the cliff about 90 feet above the Potomac River. For five months, from October 1861 to March 1862, the batteries contributed to the Confederate military's success in blockading the Potomac River.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.



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