Arlington County, Virginia Cafe, a nickname originating during the Cold War when the Pentagon was targeted by Soviet nuclear missiles. During World War II, the earliest portion of the Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway was built in Arlington in conjunction with the parking and traffic plan for the Pentagon. This early freeway, opened in 1943 and completed to Woodbridge, Virginia in 1952, is now part of Interstate 395. Arlington forms part of the region's core transportation network. The county is traversed by two interstate highways, Interstate 66 in the northern part of the county and Interstate 395 in the eastern part, both with
Ballston, Arlington, Virginia including The Nature Conservancy, the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), are located in Ballston, as are several government contractors and high tech companies, including CACI, Leidos and the headquarters of ESI International. In 2011, Accenture agreed to move its offices from Reston, Virginia, to a new facility on the corner of Wilson Boulevard and North Glebe Road in Ballston. The neighborhood is home to Washington-Lee High School. Ballston is also home to several university facilities, including: Ballston, Arlington, Virginia Ballston is a neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia and is home to the Ballston-MU