Fourth- and-fifth-grade students at Haycock Elementary School made the initial request, and on Sept. 21 community leaders gathered to unveil the second in what is expected to be a growing number of markers in the Fairfax County government’s Black/African-American Historical Marker Project.
The new marker is located at Clemyjontri Park in McLean, just steps from Gunnell’s Chapel, and notes the provenance of the historic chapel, located on land deeded by Robert Gunnell in 1879.
