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Front Royal
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Front Royal, city (1990 pop. 11,880), seat of Warren co., N Va., at the junction of South and North forks of Shenandoah River, inc. 1788. Furniture, lumber and building materials, automotive paints, and modular homes are among the local manufactures; limestone is quarried in the area. Tourism is also important; Front Royal is at the north end of Skyline Drive and Shenandoah National Park Shenandoah National Park, 198,081 acres (80,195 hectares), N Va., extending 80 mi (129 km) along the crest of the Blue Ridge. Authorized in 1926, it was fully established as a national park in 1935.
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 and near Skyline Caverns and part of the George Washington National Forest. Christendom College and the National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center are also nearby. Front Royal was the site of a Confederate victory in 1862 (see Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, Stonewall (Thomas Jonathan Jackson), 1824–63, Confederate general, b. Clarksburg, Va. (now W.Va.), grad. West Point, 1846.

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It has been reprinted and is still available (Christendom Press, Front Royal, Virginia 22630).
Stamford, Connecticut, USA, will close its Westab consumer and office product facility in Front Royal, Virginia in mid-August 202 and transfer its production and some equipment to other MeadWestvaco plants.
District Court in Washington on behalf of Daniel Heenan, a Virginia resident who attends Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia.
 
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