In 1958, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted to reorganize its schools by adding intermediate schools between the established elementary and high school designations. In September 6, 1960, Thoreau Middle School opened its doors to students.
Photograph of Henry David Thoreau.
The new “Middle School” was named after Henry David Thoreau who was an American essayist, abolitionist, developmental critic, historian, land surveyor, naturalist, poet, philosopher, poet, tax resister, and yogi.
I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.
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