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Thomas Walker Boys Basketball 1969-1970

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Well since we got 'robbed' of the state tournament this year (for the most part), I decided to go down memory lane and check out some of my VHSL State Basketball Tournament programs from the past years.

This one is from 1969-1970 season - exactly 50 years ago.

Thomas Walker lost to Hayden in the semis, and then Hayden lost to Luray in the finals - it was called Group II back then (other two groups were Group 1-A and Group III).

Here's a picture of the Thomas Walker team from that season, as well as the cover of the state tournament program/brackets:

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Ok, what happened to Hayden and Hardin Reynolds high schools?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hayden High School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register

Hayden High School during the 1950s.

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Location 610-678 Oak St., Franklin, Virginia
Coordinates
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36°40′04″N 76°55′36″WCoordinates:
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36°40′04″N 76°55′36″W
Area 5.873 acres (2.377 ha)
Built 1952-1953, 1969
Built by Silas S. Kea & Sons
Architect Dixon, Washington Irving (W. I.)
NRHP reference No. 12001268[1]
VLR No. 145-5012
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
February 5, 2013
Designated VLR December 13, 2012[2]
Hayden High School is a historic high school complex for African-American students located at Franklin, Virginia. The main building was completed in 1953, and is a two-story, "L"-plan brick clad building with two smaller one-story additions. Associated with the main school are two 1969 one-story classroom buildings situated behind the school. Hayden High School is an important site in the fight over both equalization and desegregation of public schools. The school closed in the 1980s, after housing a middle school.[3]

The school was named for educator Della Irving Hayden (1851-1924), founder of the Franklin Normal and Industrial Institute.[4] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013
 
This is all that I can really find about Hardin Reynolds:

Students who graduate from Stuart Elementary, Hardin Reynolds Memorial, Woolwine Elementary, Blue Ridge Elementary, and Meadows of Dan Elementary matriculate into Patrick County High School.

Opening in 1970 after a county-wide consolidation of schools, Patrick County High School is located approximately one mile south of the town of Stuart in Patrick County, Virginia
 
So, I guessing that Hayden is a former VIA school that joined the VHSL that academic year. We had three such schools in this area do that same thing in 1969-70
 
Wow, a state tournament program that costs only 25 cents! I've always been interest in "Whatever Happened To" this school or that school from those way gone eras.
 
For instance, I was looking at some 1964 basketball scores and ran across schools such as Midway, Holland, Whaleyville, and Chuckatuck.
 
Wow, a state tournament program that costs only 25 cents! I've always been interest in "Whatever Happened To" this school or that school from those way gone eras.

I've got every state tournament program pretty much from 1970 - 2006
 
SO many schools from SWVa that are no longer due to consolidation - Saltville, Pound, Appalachia, Garden just to name a few off the top of my head.
 
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