page_title: Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia
section_title: Modern era
hierarchical_section_title: Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia / History / Modern era
caption_attribution_description: Amanda Payne's windmill
context_page_description: Bailey's Crossroads is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 23,643 at the 2010 census. Bailey's Crossroads lies at the "crossroads" of State Route 7 and State Route 244.
context_section_description: After the Civil War Bailey's Crossroads returned to its pastoral pre-war pursuits.  The area remained a rural farming community until the post-World War II years, when a massive wave of development occurred.  Leesburg Pike is now a commercial corridor, with apartments and homes to its north and south.  A strip shopping center called Culmore, in particular, has lent its name to the apartment development behind it, which is now home to several thousand Latino immigrants.  "Culmore" is now an established place name within Bailey's Crossroads. Close behind Culmore is Lake Barcroft, whose shore is lined with upscale middle-class homes.
  During the 1960s, as Washington's Metro system was being conceived, original plans called for a subway line to extend under Columbia Pike to and through Bailey's Crossroads.  As a result of the plan a massive highrise complex was built on the former Washington-Virginia Airport in the heart of Bailey's Crossroads called Skyline City.  Its location coincided with the planned locations of Metro stations.  Plans for the Metro, however, changed.  The western line was placed along the I-66 corridor instead.
caption: Bailey's Crossroads windmill
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