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| Historic Location |
| Fairview Elementary School is located in Fairfax County on Ox Road about four miles south of the Fairfax County Courthouse. It is within sight of the old St. Mary's Catholic Church where Clara Barton did her first nursing. In the churchyard are buried soldiers who died of wounds received in the Battle of Bull Run during the Civil War. George Mason University is located about two miles north of the school. |
| 1899 |
| The Fairview School site is one of the oldest in Fairfax County, dating back to 1899. The original frame one-room building was said to have been so drafty that a former teacher"frosted her feet while standing at the blackboard." A second room was added in 1912. According to one local historian, Fairview was served in 1928 by the first Fairfax County school bus, a market wagon drawn by two horses. From this humble beginning has grown the largest county school bus fleet in the United States. |
| 1932 |
By 1932 the enrollment had increased sufficiently to warrant a 20 ft. x 25 ft. addition costing a total of $374.80. In 1939, the Public Works Agency replaced the original building with a four-room brick school with an auditorium and office space. In 1952, an addition consisting of a kitchen and cafeteria, a clinic, a teachers' lounge, a library and three new classrooms was completed on the back of the building.
A second addition, finished in 1965, consisted of a new library, an administrative suite, a special instruction room and five classrooms. This addition faces Ox Road and gives the impression that Fairview is a much newer building. Residents continued to be attracted to the Fairview area, making it necessary to add seven new classrooms, "relocatables," in 1977. |
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