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Mount Vernon High School Collection, MSS 11-13, Virginia Room, Fairfax County Public Library
Collection assembled by Virginia Room Staff over a period of years. A portion of the collection was donated by Mayo Stuntz.
Chris Barbuschak, May 2017
EAD generated by Ross Landis, 2024
In November 1938, the County School Board of Fairfax County purchased 8.8 acres of land, formerly part of George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, from George P. Beach. The Public Works Administration (PWA) constructed a two-story colonial revival high school building on the site at a cost of about $100,000. The new school building replaced Lee-Jackson High School. When it opened in January 1940, the faculty and students of Lee-Jackson transferred to the new Mount Vernon High School. Several additions were later added onto the building. In 1973, a $6,593,000 renovation project converted the Walt Whitman Intermediate School (erected in 1961) into the current Mount Vernon High School located at 8515 Old Mount Vernon Road. Mount Vernon High School celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2015 and the county erected an historical marker in front of the original high school building in 2016.
The Mount Vernon High School Collection spans the years 1950-1952 and consists of student newspapers, a student handbook, a graduation program, and a newspaper clipping of the 1952 graduating class. Subjects include Mount Vernon High School and education in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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