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Photo by Bonnie Hobbs Members of the Bull Run Civil War Round Table pose in period costumes. Most people just think of the Centreville McDonald’s on Fort Drive as a place for burgers and fries.

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The Fort Niagara POW camp is believed to have been closed by the end of 1945, the year the war ended, but Duling said some local residents remember seeing prisoners in the area in 1946.