Rosslyn Station
If you were a passenger on the Washington & Old Dominion Railway heading into Georgetown, you would first have to pass through Rosslyn, Virginia, a 15-minute train ride from here.
The first Rosslyn Terminal dated from 1906, with the establishment of the Great Falls & Old Dominion Railroad. That line ran from Georgetown in Washington northwest through Virginia to the falls of the Potomac River.
Streetcars often shuttled passengers from the railroad's eastern terminal in Georgetown across the bridge to Rosslyn. There passengers boarded cars - the most modern electric equipment of the day - and continued their journey up the steep bluffs and through the Virginia countryside.
In 1911 the GF&OD became the Washington & Old Dominion Railway. The new company took over the former Southern Railway Bluemont Branch, bringing still more passenger business to Georgetown. Rosslyn became the railroad's center of operations.
Marker can be reached from North Manchester Street, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
