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Winchester
in Frederick County ... so close to everywhere! Located at the northern tip of Virginia, it
is the northern gateway to the
Shenandoah Valley.
Just 70 miles northwest of Washington, DC, Winchester,
Frederick County,
is located along Interstate 81 and is convenient to Interstate 66. Routes 50, 7, and 522
intersect in Winchester.
Winchester,
surrounded by vast orchards, constitutes one of the largest apple export markets of the
nation and the largest apple producing area in Virginia.
Winchester
has received awards for Best Public Celebrations and Most Loveable Small Towns in Mountain
Homes - Southern Style's Winter 2007 Annual Guide issue. Chosen from towns in upscale communities in Virginia,
West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Maryland, Winchester ranks number 14. This comes on
the heels of a survey done by a major insurance company that named Winchester one of the safest of its size
in the entire U.S.
Winchester,
Virginia, was settled primarily by Germans and Scots-Irish.
Newtown, Newtonfield, Stephensburg, Pantops, Stephens,
Stephens City---
all names for the town where the road to Alexandria intersected the
Great Wagon Road.
The tomb of
Lord Fairfax,
the home and grave of Revolutionary hero
General Daniel Morgan,
George Washington's headquarters
and
those of Stonewall Jackson
- all within Winchester.
Frederick County
was the birthplace of Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
Willa Cather
and the hometown of country music legend
Patsy Cline.
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