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Bats Left, Throws Right Height 6′ 0″, Weight 196 lb. High School Falmouth (VA) High School Debut September 8, 1951 Final Game May 16, 1953 Born February 19, 1923 in Fredericksburg, VA USA Died November 2, 2013 in Fredericksburg, VA USA Biographical Information Outfielder Russ Sullivan was acquired by the Detroit Tigers before the 1949…

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The first Stafford High School opened in 1926. The school was located near the Stafford County Courthouse in what is now part of the Alvin York Bandy Administrative Complex. In 1952 Stafford High School and Falmouth High School merged into one school. Prior to the merge, the mascots for the respective schools were the “Pioneers”…

The Stafford Training School was built during the Great Depression by the Public Works Administration on eight acres of land fronting U.S. 1. The Rowser Building is located at 1739 Jefferson Davis Highway next to The Log Cabin Restaurant and the Rappahannock Regional Jail. The original building was opened in 1939 as the Stafford Training…

Even by the 1930s, most Stafford’s schools remained small. Ramoth School held grades one through six. This structure, located on the corner of Ramoth Church Road and Kellogg Mill Road, still stands today minus the bell tower. Currently, Ramoth Baptist Church uses it as an auxiliary building. 1940’s  

Little Falls School was probably built around 1912 and served first through sixth grade students.  Located in southeastern Stafford on Route 3, it was originally a building with clapboard siding.  Later it was covered with stucco.  It had two standard brick flues.  A description of the building in 1940 said that it contained two classrooms,…

  Oak Grove School was known to have been standing in the 1940s in Widewater.  The picture shows the former “colored school” in 1961.   Brown v. Topeka had ended segregation and “separate but equal” facilities and resources, but Stafford still had a long way toward realizing anything remotely qualifying as a quality educational system…

Leeland School was standing at the juncture of Morton and Leland Roads. It was first used as a “white” school.”  By 1937 it was closed.  That same year there was a  flood on the Rappahannock River that destroyed the “Falmouth Elementary Colored School” which was located on River Road in south Stafford. Immediately, some of…

Ferry Farm Elementary School was established in the fall of 1957. The school opened its doors to 172 students from Ferry Farm, Argyle Heights, Tylerton, and Young’s Subdivision. The building consisted of seven classrooms, a library, a teacher’s lounge, a principal’s office, and a multi-purpose room to be used as both a cafeteria and an…

This is Falmouth High School in 1935.  But this structure, located by Warrenton Road northwest of Falmouth, has had a very interesting and complex history. Prior to 1931, white students in southern Stafford attended high school in Fredericksburg.  In 1931, this structure was constructed enabling these students to attend school locally.  The building had 15…

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Documents show that this school was standing in 1922. It was described as a frame schoolhouse with a wood shingle roof. It had two rooms with closets. A larger room was 27 x 52 feet while a smaller one was 6 x 48 feet. In 1942, during World War II, the land was condemned by…