WINCHESTER There are Patsy Cline photos, a Patsy Cline tour, a Patsy Cline historical marker and a soon-to-be Patsy Cline museum on the downtown pedestrian mall. Winchester, with three roads named after her, is all about Patsy Cline.

Cline, one of American's most famous country singers, was born Virginia Patterson Hensley on Sept. 8, 1932, in a Winchester hospital. She lived in the nearby community of Gore and in about a dozen other places in Virginia before she was 15. She lived in Winchester for 12 years.

Though there were some in this small Shenandoah Valley city who looked down on Cline for singing what were then termed "hillbilly" songs, few of those critics can be found now.

"The interest is still here. The memory is still here," said Harold F. Madagan Jr., who owns Gaunt's drug store where Cline sold sodas in 1950 and 1951. He has scores of her photographs on the walls, some autographed. Hundreds of people come by each year to visit Cline's former workplace.

"She'll always be remembered for her all-time best voice," said Madagan. Country-music aficionados said Cline had a true voice with a true pitch.

She would also be remembered for breaking rules. She was tough, stepping firmly into the all-man's world of the 1950s. At a daylong symposium at the Virginia Historical Society this month, Paul Levengood said Cline was "arguably Virginia's most significant contribution to 20th-century American popular culture.

"More than 45 years after her death, Patsy's life and timeless music continue to fascinate and entertain," said Levengood, managing editor of the Virginia Historical Society's Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.

Cline got her big break after winning an Arthur Godfrey nationally televised talent show in 1957 with her song "Walkin' After Midnight." Her hit songs after that included "I Fall to Pieces," and "Crazy" - the No. 1 jukebox hit of all time.

Winchester's Patsy Cline tour includes Handley High School, where she failed to get a degree; the modest house on Kent Street where she lived with her mother; another house on Kent Street where she married Charlie Dick; the National Cemetery where her parents are buried; The WINC-92.5 FM studio where Cline made her first radio appearance; and the final site on the tour, Shenandoah Memorial Park, where she is buried.

Cline, at the height of her fame, died in a plane crash March 5, 1963, at age 30.