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Fort Buffalo was an earthwork fortification built in 1861 by the 21st New York Infantry of the Union army and named for the troops’ hometown. During the Civil War, a concentration of forts existed in the Seven Corners section of Falls Church, and these structures were used in the Federal defense of Washington. First occupied by Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell’s troops during the First Manassas Campaign, the fort was briefly occupied by the Confederates following that Federal defeat in July 1861. In the 1950s, Seven Corners shopping center and the surrounding community was developed on land once part of and surrounding Fort Buffalo.
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