At this site can be found details on the Dickenson County, Virginia Wireless Integrated Network, the fruit of Delegate Bud Phillips' labors in this past session of the legislature to pass a bill authorizing counties to operate wireless telecommunications networks by way of a new kind of service authority.
Dickenson County has a population of about 16,000 (down 7% in 2000 from 1990), including 5,300 "persons with a disability", and 753 people over the age of 25 with a college degree, according to statistics shown here. Its population is 99% white, 14.5% 65 or older, and 21.6% are persons "below poverty."
A short, unofficial history of the county appears here, and includes the fact that one proposed name that was rejected was "Stonewall County," in honor of the Confederate general from Virginia.
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