Weverton, Maryland

Weverton is an unincorporated community hamlet located in the southern tip of Washington County, Maryland, United States,[1] near the north shore of the Potomac River.

Weverton is the northwestern end of CSX Transportation's Metropolitan Subdivision, a 79-mile rail line that runs to Washington, D.C.

Founded in the 1820s, Weverton was a speculative venture intended to be a mill town to use the waterpower of the Potomac and transportation provided by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

The community was the creation of Caspar Wever, a chief construction engineer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and a specialist in masonry arch bridges, some of which are still in use.

Later on, speculative land sales collapsed and floods washed out a file-making factory and other businesses.