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Article: NEWCOMERS GIVE SPRAWLING SUFFOLK A SUBURBAN SIDE LOWER HOME PRICES DRAW YOUNGER RESIDENTS, MAY SHIFT GOVERNMENT.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 29, 1998
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Byline: CHRIS GRIER, STAFF WRITER
SUFFOLK -- The 19th century homes along Main Street, the clusters of old churches and the scent of roasting peanuts wafting from factories give the core of Virginia's largest city its unmistakable character.
A 20-minute drive north - though still within the city limits - puts you in a far different place. On land where soybeans or forests once grew, hundreds of houses sit, lined up as orderly as toy dwellings on a Monopoly board. They transform the once-rural setting into a landscape that some people call ``Vinyl City.''
Barbara McPhail, president of Suffolk's historical society, recalled a recent drive to ...