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Keith F. Lynch (kfl@access.digex.net) wrote:
: In article <30157g$hpg@panix2.panix.com>,
: Peter Kronenberg <pak@panix.com> wrote:
: > But Falls Church is *in* Fairfax County, isn't it?

: It is not.

: Falls Church, Fairfax City, and Alexandria are independent cities.

: Then there's Arlington county, which consists entirely of the city
: of Arlington.

: All of these were part of Fairfax County a long time ago (before 1790).

If you want to be technical about it, the area which is now Arlington County 
was once part of the District of Columbia and thus no longer part of 
Virginia.  When the Federal Government realized that the the District 
would never get large enough to need the land, it was retroceeded back to
the Commonwealth back in the 1800s.  Thus for a time the land was not 
part of the United States at all.  (The District of Columbia is not part 
of the United States; it is a Federal Territory.)

All of what is now the District of Columbia was originally part of the 
State of Maryland.  In fact, at one point there was a law on the books - 
rarely enforced - that said a person committing a crime in DC could be 
prosecuted under the laws of the State of Maryland.

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