The Seven Corners area is home to the first major suburban shopping center in Fairfax County, developed in the 1950s, which “changed the relationship of Fairfax County as a solely suburban bedroom community satellite of the capital city,” according to Fairfax County, Virginia, A History, (1992 edition). The same volume identifies a 1948 aerial photograph of the Seven Corners area as the intersection “where seven roads meet in a tangle.”
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