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- Prominently sited near downtown Fredericksburg, the Matthew Fontaine Maury School, named for the 19th-century scientist and oceanographer, served as the city’s first purpose built high school from its construction in 1919-20, until 1980.
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In 1952, when the city built a new high school, the building was renamed Matthew Fontaine Maury School and served as the city's middle school until it was closed in 1980. [4] After the school was closed, it was used for several years by the Fredericksburg Police Academy and, later, as a homeless shelter.
Matthew Maury Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, was built in 1929. [36] Nearby Arlington, Va., renamed its 1910 Clarendon Elementary to honor Maury in 1944; Since 1976, the building has been home to the Arlington Arts Center [ 37 ] (rebranded in 2022 as the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington). [ 38 ]
Jul 25, 2018 · Mathew Fontaine Maury did not come back from France after the civil war as he was tried in a federal court for treason, without representation found guilty. It took Robert E Lee seven years to obtain a pardon.
Sep 6, 2006 · Prominently sited near downtown Fredericksburg, the Matthew Fontaine Maury School, named for the 19th-century scientist and oceanographer, served as the city’s first purpose built high school from its construction in 1919-20, until 1980.
When Matthew Fontaine Maury came to Richmond, Virginia, on the first Sunday after Virginia’s vote for secession, he was armed only with knowledge gained from decades of scientific work at the National Observatory and a deep, if theoretical, understanding of naval warfare.
Matthew Fontaine Maury was a U.S. naval officer, pioneer hydrographer, and one of the founders of oceanography. Maury entered the navy in 1825 as a midshipman, circumnavigated the globe (1826–30), and in 1836 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
Oct 2, 2020 · Amid recent calls in the United States and elsewhere to remove statues and other references that glorify historically racist figures, we offer a reexamination of nineteenth-century naval officer and early ocean scientist Matthew Fontaine Maury.
