A county redistricting committee recommended that the county rename the Lee and Sully magisterial districts after finding both names have ties to slavery.
Though there has been some community opposition to changing the Lee District name, the support outweighs it, Lusk said. So far, new names under consideration include Franconia, Huntley, Laurel Grove and Dogue Creek, he said.Supervisor Kathy L. Smith said she is keeping an open mind on whether her district should be renamed. Unlike Lusk, she had waited for the redistricting committee’s recommendations before meeting with constituents about the issue.
Jeffrey Parnes, the president of the Sully District Council of Citizens Associations, argued that the name has ties to France, where there is a village of Sully and a town of Sully. Moreover, Parnes told the committee, it wouldn’t make sense to change the Sully name while keeping the names of districts such as Mount Vernon, which was George Washington’s plantation and a home to enslaved people.
That was the debate with the Springfield District, which no longer includes most of the greater Springfield area after its boundaries were redrawn three decades ago.
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