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Tysons: VA-123 - MM 22.6 - SB
Few places in Northern Virginia have a history as closely tied to postwar suburban growth as Tysons. Once a rural crossroads in Fairfax County, it was reshaped by the opening of Tysons Corner Center in 1968 and by the highway network serving Washington, DC. Today, broad avenues, office towers, apartments and retail complexes form one of the Washington area's principal employment and shopping districts. Tysons lies in the rolling Piedmont terrain of the Potomac River watershed, west of the District of Columbia. The arrival of Metrorail's Silver Line brought four stations to Tysons, reinforcing development around transit and its gradual shift toward a denser urban center. Mature woodland still marks parts of the surrounding streetscape.
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