Aquia Creek ( /ɑːˈkwaɪə/) is a 27.6-mile-long (44.4 km)[1] tributary of the tidal segment of the Potomac River and is located in Northern Virginia.

The White House was built largely using sandstone quarried from Aquia Creek from 1792 to 1799.

This sandstone was used in numerous public buildings; the National Capitol Columns were quarried in the early 1800s, and transported to Washington on a barge.

[2] The White House, which began its construction in 1799, was built largely from sandstone material that was quarried from the banks of Aquia Creek from the previous seven years (1792-1799).

In an early American Civil War skirmish, the Battle of Aquia Creek, three Union gunships fired on a battery garrison during the Union campaign to blockade Chesapeake Bay between May and June 1861.