 Picture courtesy of Scott Roth
In 1863, during the Civil War, Pennsylvanian Herman Haupt, a noted bridge designer and superintendent of Union military railroads, commissioned John Devereux, the reailroad superintendent in Alexandria, to build a siding on the Orange & Alexandria R. R. on this site, later known as Devereux Station. When a passenter station was built in 1868, the name was changed to Clifton Station. The station spurred the development of clifton as a commercial and resort community, with its greatest growth occurring between 1890 and 1920. Although the station was removed in 1958, the town continued to thrive and remains noted for its late-19th-century architecture.
Department of Historic Resources
Town of Clifton near caboose Fairfax County Virginia.
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