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Newington Road Underpass

GPS Coordinates: 38.7387413, -77.1855787
Closest Address: 8100 Newington Road, Lorton, VA 22079

Newington Road Underpass

Newington Road One-Lane Underpass
It's still there today, on the other section of Newington Road, under the CSX tracks from Washington to Richmond. Yield signs at both ends control traffic flow.


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Here follows the inscription written on a nearby roadside historical marker:

Newington was the name given to the second Truro Parish Glebe House completed in 1760 after it became the private residence of Richard and Sarah McCarty Chichester after 1767. The William Nevitt family acquired the house and 1000 acre tract in 1828 and occupied the house until it burned in 1875. In April 1872, the Alexandria and Fredericksburg Railroad, originally built on Cinder Bed Road, opened the Long Branch Station on Nevitt property. By 1918 the station, renamed Accotink, was linked by a spur to Camp Humphreys, later renamed Fort Belvoir, to transport troops during World War I. In 1971 the station, last known as Newington, was closed.

Marker Erected 2005 by The Fairfax County History Commission


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Regarding Newington:
Until the mid-1980s the Newington Post Office (Zip Code 22122) was in an old country store on the east side of the RF&P railroad tracks and Newington Road at the one-lane underpass, up at track level.


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Here follows a history of Newington as published on the Fairfax County Public Schools website:

The name Newington likely would have been forgotten had it not been for the establishment of a post office by that name in 1888. The first Newington Post Office was located approximately three quarters of a mile west of the ruins. In the early 20th century, after the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac railroad tracks had been realigned, the Newington Post Office was moved to Pearson’s Store, which was then located on the east side of the railroad tracks south of the Newington Road underpass. Accotink Station, a train station within walking distance of Pearson’s Store, was renamed Newington Station in the 1950s. The station and post office were both demolished later in the 20th century, but the name Newington endures in the names of roads, neighborhoods, a new post office, and Newington Forest Elementary School.

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