| From the Raleigh Standard |
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| August 14, 1861 |
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| Manassa, Manasseh, or Manassas |
| The Manassas Gap Railroad forms a junction
with the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, about twenty-seven miles
this side of Alexandria. This junction was formerly called Tudor Hall,
but this has been gradually substituted by "Manassas
Junction," and this again by simply "Manassa" or
"Manassas." As to the correct spelling, the Richmond Enquirer
says Manassas and Manassa are both corruptions. The name is derived
from a pass in the mountains, through which the road, when completed,
was designed to run. This pass was named after a Jew, called "Old
Manasseh," who kept a house of entertainment there. The real
name, therefore, is a scriptural one, and is, properly, Manasseh;
but the Railroad has gone into the legislation of the State as "Manassas
Gap," and our Generals, in their official papers, have called
it "Manassas" -- and so "Manassas"
it must be. |
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