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Choosing a Valley Strategy; Industry Is Conquering the Area South of Winchester, but the Growth Has Just Begun
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The Washington Post
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March 11, 1996
- Author:
- Peter Behr; R.H. Melton
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For most residents of the nation's capital, the Shenandoah
Valley that unrolls south of Winchester is out of sight behind the
Blue Ridge Mountains and out of mind as well.
But you might think of Winchester the next time you open a
soda bottle, polish off a plate of fettuccine, screw in a light bulb
or dig through the advertising inserts in the Sunday newspaper.
Consider it when you lean on your car's armrest as you drive by the
arched steel superstructure of the new National Airport terminal.
There's a good chance that most of those products were made in
the northern Shenandoah Valley, a little more than an hour's drive
from Washington. Better known for apples and Civil War battles, ...