The new middle school was under construction in Concord on May 15. It is slated to open next year. This house, now the Robbins House Museum, is where Ellen Garrison was born in 1823 in Concord.

Residents of Concord, a place rich with buildings named for famous people across history, are pushing town officials to rename the middle school for a local educator and abolitionist, Ellen Garrison.

Concord residents want to name new middle school after Black abolitionist Ellen Garrison. The School Committee disagrees. By Deanna Pan Globe Staff,Updated May 16, 2024, 1:17 p.m. 158 ...

Concord Town Meeting members overwhelmingly voted in favor of renaming the middle school after a Black woman and Civil War era abolitionist Ellen Garrison. Hundreds of Town Meeting members in the ...