Check Charles Poland's book_Frontier to Suburbia_for details of Loudoun's
cession of the Sugarland area. I've forgotten the circumstances, whether there
was compensation or not--of course the shopping centers and $2 million houses
weren't there in those days, so the tax base was a little different. Folks in
that area probably just found it was easier to get to Fairfax C.H. than to
Leesburg on court days.
Jim Hershman
Randy Cabell wrote:
> Wow, James. How interesting!!!! The most interesting thing is that there
> IS precedence for doing such. Does the State Legislature have to get
> involved in such swaps as the Loudoun/Fairfax example, and the unfied
> schools?
>
> Randy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Hershman" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 1:41 PM
> Subject: Re: Precedence for Unified Service Districts
>
> > Randy,
> >
> > I don't know how common it was in other parts of the state (mountain
> counties, etc.) but I know from my study of the 1950s that Rappahannock and
> Warren Counties operated a unified school system at the time of the school
> closings in 1959. As to your other question about dividing counties, I know
> that my county, Loudoun, once ceded the land
> > between Sugarland Run and Colvin Run to Fairfax County, I believe early in
> the 19th century. I think a lot of the folks in western Loudoun would
> probably be willing to be ceded to Clarke but the rest of the county
> wouldn't let'm go.
> >
> > Jim Hershman
> >
> > Randy Cabell wrote:
> >
> > > My little county is beginning to creak trying to keep up delivering
> fire, but mainly schools in the face of insane salary competition among the
> local cities and counties for teachers. I think that eventually there is
> going to have to be a Northern Shenandoah Valley Unified School District,
> which encompasses a set of counties and towns.
> > >
> > > Interestingly enough, only yesterday did I hear that (1) the county
> should go out of business and join one of the larger local ones, (2) several
> local counties might be interested in giving away some of their more rural
> land to my county (ie let it annex some of their adjacent land.
> > >
> > > QUESTION #1 - Is there any precedence in the history of the Commonwealth
> for cross-county unified school districts? I know that some cities within
> counties run common school systems, but I'm interested in county-to-county
> systems.
> > >
> > > QUESTION #2 and this is the biggy. Is there any precendece (after all
> the counties had been formed) for major shifting of county boundaries. e.g.
> annexation of part of one county by another county. Here again, I am aware
> of consolidations of cities and counties, like Virginia Beach in 1963.
> > >
> > > Randy Cabell
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