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November 21, 2018

National Landing? Amazon's HQ2 pick starts some head scratching

By MATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press

ARLINGTON, Va. — Place names in Arlington County have never been a simple matter. A major fight broke out when National Airport was named for Ronald Reagan in 1998. A fight continues over whether to name a park next to the airport for Nancy Reagan. And in the 1920s, the Postal Service refused to establish a post office in Arlington because the street names were so confusing and haphazard.

So it is fitting that as Arlington officials celebrated Amazon's decision to locate a new headquarters in the area, there was a bit of confusion over the place name.


 
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