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Fort Stevens Loop

Un percorso ciclabile con partenza da Forest Glen, Maryland, Stati Uniti.

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Un breve percorso che inizia a Woodside Park e si dirige verso i siti storici legati al raid di Jubal Early a Washington DC nell'estate del 1864. Il percorso comprende il cimitero confederato, il cimitero dell'Unione e le fortificazioni a Fort Stevens e Fort DeRussy. Il giro termina con un breve viaggio attraverso il Rock Creek Park e ritorna a Woodside.

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Durata: 20,3 km
Distanza: 157 m
Salita: 157 m
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Velocità media: ---
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Ian Brett Cooper

creato 6 anni fa

Qualità del percorso

Tipi di percorsi e superfici lungo il percorso

Tipi di percorso

Strada
7,5 km
(37 %)
Strada tranquilla
5,1 km
(25 %)
Pista ciclabile
4,1 km
(20 %)

Superfici

Asfaltato

16,2 km

(80 %)

Asfalto
15,4 km
(76 %)
Pavimentato (non definito)
0,6 km
(3 %)
Calcestruzzo
0,2 km
(1 %)

Punti salienti del percorso

Punti di interesse lungo il percorso

Punto di interesse dopo 1,6 km
9315 Greyrock Road. "Grey Rocks". At the time of Jubal Early's raid, this was the home of Doctor Henry Ford Condict. On July 11, 1864, the house was occupied by the Confederates and used as an observation post and a rendezvous point for cavalry searching for horses and provisions.
Punto di interesse dopo 2,6 km
Raymond W. Burche's home. Shells from Union artillery fell around this property. Now demolished.
Punto di interesse dopo 3,4 km
1504 Noyes Drive. When excavating the back yard of ths house for an addition, a ten-inch Union Parrott shell from the Civil War was discovered.
Punto di interesse dopo 3,4 km
8818 1st Avenue "Woodside" was Richard T. Wilson's Home at the time of the raid. This was a farmhouse with a driveway leading to Georgia Avenue. Wilson was a confederate sympathizer and this house was used as Confederate Major General John C. Breckinridge's headquarters. The Wilson Farm encompassed all of what is now Woodside and the western part of Woodside Park.
Punto di interesse dopo 3,6 km
John C. Wilson's home. John Wilson supported the Union. His brother Richard supported the Confederacy. The house is now demolished.
Punto di interesse dopo 4,4 km
"Sligo" was the name of Silver Spring during the Civil War. On 11-12 July 1864, the businesses here, including Lewis Graves' dry goods store, Rayney's store, and Barnes' Tavern farther south were looted by Confederate soldiers.
Punto di interesse dopo 4,4 km
The Eagle Inn.
Punto di interesse dopo 4,8 km
"Falkland", Montgomery Blair's mansion, stood here in 1864. It was burned by Confederate troops at the time of the raid. The ruin stood here until 1958, when it was burned down again to make way for Blair Plaza.
Punto di interesse dopo 5,3 km
Silver Cycles.
Punto di interesse dopo 5,4 km
Francis Preston Blair's "Silver Spring" mansion. This house was used by General Jubal Early as his headquarters. Now demolished.
Punto di interesse dopo 6,4 km
James Blair's "The Moorings". This is the only one of the Blair family's Silver Spring mansions still standing. From 1934 to 1957, the house served as the Silver Spring Public Library.
Punto di interesse dopo 8,5 km
Battleground National Cemetery. Here are buried the US soldiers who died defending Washington from Jubal Early's raid on 11-12 July 1864.
Punto di interesse dopo 9,5 km
Fort Stevens Battlefield Park There are a few gun emplacements remaining and a monument to the battle.
Punto di interesse dopo 12 km
Fort DeRussy. This fort is overgrown, but there is a marker and the banks that supported the gun emplacements can still be seen. There were no trees here in 1864.
Punto di interesse dopo 20,3 km
Confederate Cemetery. Ten years after the Civil War, soldiers of the Confederacy who had died during Jubal Early's raid on Washington, and who had been buried in nearby fields were exhumed and reburied together in Grace Church graveyard.