Tysons Corner or Tysons

[17thAndK]

Originally Posted by gomason

It's named after a drug store that was at the intersection of route 7 and 123 called Tyson's

No drug store. The Tyson family owned the property from before the Civil War.

[cdmurphy]

Tysons Corner, 1935

[manitopiaaa]

Originally Posted by NOVA_guy

Tysons seems more "city-like". Tysons Corner sounds like a shopping center, kind of generic.

This.

[skeddy]

moved to Great Falls in 1958 .... Tysons Corner consisted of a drug store, an animal hospital and a gas station. At 123 and 7 there was a stop light, the next traffic light going west on Route 7 (a two lane road) was in Leesburg. There was no beltway, no Reston, no Dulles, just farmland.

[17thAndK]

Everywhere was nowhere until the sixties Maps did not show the names of towns but the names of farmers.