* Mount Vernon High School ( disambiguation ), several different schools

* Vernon High School.

* Mount Vernon High School-Mt.

High school students, who formerly went to Libertyville High School, now attend either Libertyville High School or Vernon Hills High School.

Some subdivisions in southern Vernon Hills send students to Lincolnshire schools, including Adlai E. Stevenson High School.

Albert Edward Wiggam and James Whitcomb Brougher, authors and graduates of Vernon High School

* Mount Vernon Senior High School ( 9-12 )

* Mount Vernon Junior High ( 6-8 )

Hornbeck is a part of the Vernon Parish School District headquartered in Leesville and has been home to Hornbeck High School, the only public school in the community, since 1898.

The Maranacook Community School system includes Manchester Elementary School, Mount Vernon Elementary School, Readfield Elementary School, Wayne Elementary School, Maranacook Community Middle School and Maranacook Community High School.

Children from neighboring Mont Vernon, New Hampshire attend the middle school, but on a tuition basis, while Amherst and Mont Vernon jointly own Souhegan High School, which serves both towns.

For 9th through 12th grades, the students are sent to Souhegan High School, which is in Amherst but jointly owned by Amherst and Mont Vernon.

* The Mount Vernon High School " Lady Mountaineers " won the Missouri Class 3A girls basketball state championship in 2012.

Vernon is home to many lake communities, including Highland Lakes, Barry Lakes, Cliffwood Lake, High Breeze, Lake Conway, Lake Wanda, Laurel Lake, Lake Wildwood, Lake Glenwood, Lake Panorama, Lake Pochung, Lake Wallkill, Pleasant Valley Lake, Scenic Lakes, and Vernon Valley Lake.

Vernon Township High School ( 9-12 ; 1, 541 ).

Buildings along East High Street in downtown Mount Vernon.

The district includes Bloom-Vernon Elementary School, South Webster Jr .- Sr. High School, South Webster Headstart, and Vernon Adult Learning Center.

These have included: W. T. Vernon School ( 1908 ), the Industrial Institute for the Deaf, Blind, and Orphans of the Colored Race ( 1909 ), Moton High School, and the State Training School for Negro Girls.

The Town of Mount Vernon is served by the Mount Vernon Independent School District and home to the Mount Vernon High School Tigers.

Vernon High School's football team, the Vernon Lions, were one of the strongest programs in the 3A division until recently.

Slartibartfast was first portrayed in the 1978 radio serial, in which he was voiced by Richard Vernon, who also portrayed him in the 1981 live-action miniseries.

The five students — Allison Reynolds ( Ally Sheedy ), Andrew Clark ( Emilio Estevez ), John Bender ( Judd Nelson ), Brian Johnson ( Anthony Michael Hall ), and Claire Standish ( Molly Ringwald )— who seem to have nothing in common at first, come together at the high school library, where they are harangued and ordered not to speak or move from their seats or sleep by the antagonistic assistant principal, Richard Vernon ( Paul Gleason ), supervising them.

" His first doctoral student, Murray Vernon King, pinned the label on him, and it was quickly adopted by other students, who wanted to use an appellation that showed informal respect.

** Vernon Jordan is shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Joseph Paul Franklin ( the first major news story for CNN ).

* December 14 – George Washington, the first President of the United States, dies in Mount Vernon, Virginia.

It was first applied to Mount Vernon, the Virginia estate of George Washington, the first President of the United States.

In Britain the victory was greeted with much celebration, and in 1740, at a dinner in honour of Vernon in London, the song " Rule Britannia " was performed in public for the first time.

Even in October 1739 Vernon had sent his first Lieutenant Percival along with two Spanish Fraternity on the ship, with the excuse to deliver a letter to Blas de Lezo and another who at that time was the governor of Cartagena, Don Pedro Hidalgo.

* The Vernon Pioneer-( 1875 – 1878 ) The first newspaper published in Lamar County was The Vernon Pioneer.

Its county seat is Mount Vernon and is named for Henry Knox, an officer in the American Revolutionary War who was later the first Secretary of War.

Swedes settled in Quinsigamond Village and Greendale, Italians settled along Shrewsbury Street, Irish and Poles settled around Kelly Square, Lithuanians settled on Vernon Hill, and Jews built their first synagogues on Green Island and Union Hill.

Use of the land remained relatively static until the 1950s, when part of it was purchased for a residential community and golf course ; the development was the first use of the name " Vernon Hills.

The Aspen Drive Library in Vernon Hills is the village's first full-service library.

* The first area set aside for use as a public playground in Indiana, The Commons, is located in Vernon.

From around 1805 to 1816, Mount Vernon was known as McFadden's Bluff named for one of the first settlers to the area.

The Vernon Greene / Walter Gibson Shadow newspaper comic strip from the early 1940s was finally collected by Malibu Graphics ( Malibu Comics ) under their Eternity Comics imprint, beginning with the first issue of Crime Classics dated July, 1988.

The county's first newspaper, the Mount Vernon Signal, began publication in 1887.

In September 1853, Dickson platted the village as Mount Vernon, after Mount Vernon, Virginia, the home of the first U. S. President, George Washington.

Dupont writes that this is very possible because of two things: 1 ) the township was created in 1792, the year that George Washington was reelected as President, and 2 ) because Vernon Township's first Masonic Lodge in 1820 was named Mount Vernon ( Washington was also a Freemason during his life ), likely after Washington's Virginia residence.

Samuel Dougherty, a carpenter, is claimed to have built the first dwelling in North Belle Vernon on Broad Avenue near Spring Alley.

* Vernon Jarrett — Political activist, social commentator and Chicago Tribune's first African American syndicated columnist