Christmas Cheer Clifton, VA

Walking around this charming little town located outside the beltway I was singing:

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go
Take a look at the five and ten, it’s glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Toys in every store
But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be
On your own front door

A pair of hop-a-long boots and a pistol that shoots
Is the wish of Barney and Ben
Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jen
And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go,
There’s a tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well
It’s the sturdy kind that doesn’t mind the snow

Clifton’s history begins pre-colonially, when the area was used as hunting grounds by the local Dogue Native American tribe. A railroad siding was constructed here during the Civil War and the area became titled as Devereux Station. A nearby neighborhood on the outskirts of the Clifton zip code has this name. Development of a village at the siding began in 1868 when a railroad depot, named “Clifton Station”, was constructed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton,_Virginia