Editing Bon Air, Virginia (section)

===1950s Suburban Development Boom ===
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By the mid-1950s, Bon Air experienced a suburban population boom. The Bon Air Shopping center was built at Buford and Forest Hill Ave, and subdivisions like Crestwood Farms, Highland Hills, Brighton Green, and Brookwood Estates welcomed new residents. The burgeoning population also resulted in infrastructure and civic amenities being built. The [https://www.highlandhillsrva.com/ Highland Hills] community consisted mainly of pre-fabricated, contemporary (now described as “mid-century modern”) homes designed by noted architect [[Charles M. Goodman]] for National Homes Corporation.

Bon Air's elementary school was already in its second home, but most high school students had to travel to [[Manchester High School (Virginia)|Manchester]] or [[Midlothian High School (Virginia)|Midlothian]] high schools. In the 1960s, a new high school and later a middle school were built by [[Chesterfield County Public Schools]] on part of the former Bethany home property. [[Huguenot High School]] opened on September 6, 1960. The first principal was G. H. (Gurney Holland) Reid, a longtime principal of [[Manchester High School (Virginia)|Manchester High School]], for whom [[G. H. Reid Elementary School]] in another section of the county had been named. A fourteen classroom addition was completed around 1964. G. H. Reid retired at the end of the 1968–69 school year, the last before the city annexed the land occupied by the school the following January 1. Also on the former Burroughs land, [[Fred D. Thompson Middle School]], named for a long-time county educator, was completed in 1965, and was one of the first county schools feature central air conditioning.

The [[Southern Railway (U.S.)|Southern Railway]] ended commuter service to Richmond in 1957, and the Bon Air station was dismantled.

In 1967 Chesterfield County began to operate the Hazen Library and moved the location in 1975, according to a plaque on the building.