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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Much of S. Arlington developed in response to the construction of the Pentagon.  A lot of apartments along and close to Columbia Pike were constructed to house younger, often single, clerical workers, telephone operators and the like who worked at the Pentagon.  Other neighborhoods such as Penrose and Arlington Heights were developed to house young officers.  You will see similar styles of housing in any older military base in the Notheast.  As people moved away from the outdated apartments in the 1960s and 1970s to newer housing stock (including a lot of the new apartments and townhouses built in Shirlington after the Army Corps of Engineers controlled flooding in Four Mile Run), the older rental apartments became home to the new waves of Central American emigres, Ethiopians and Eritreans.  The Ethiopian Development Council which once helped only Ethiopian refugees now helps refugees including the many from the middle east now moving in the Pike corridor.  Children of these emigrees and the long time African American population -- many of whom live in two original Freeman Villages near the Army Navy Country Club -- do not perform as well in school as the children of highly educated people who can afford to live in other parts of Arlington. For example, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia's grandfather probably did not attend a high performing school, but he  bought into the American dream just as the South Arlington people have, and look what his progeny has done.[/quote]
Good info to know. Thank you [/quote]

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