Lynchburg, Virginia Lynchburg, Virginia City of Lynchburg Downtown Lynchburg horizon Downtown Lynchburg horizon Official seal of Lynchburg, Virginia Lynchburg is positioned in the US Lynchburg - Lynchburg Council Lynchburg City Council Lynchburg City Hall Lynchburg is an autonomous town/city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The 2016 census estimates an increase to 80,212. Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains along the banks of the James River, Lynchburg is known as the "City of Seven Hills" or the "Hill City". Lynchburg was the only primary city in Virginia that was not captured by the Union before the end of the American Civil War. Lynchburg is the principal town/city of the Metropolitan Travel Destination of Lynchburg, near the geographic center of Virginia.
See also: Timeline of Lynchburg, Virginia Lynchburg historical marker In 1786, Virginia's General Assembly in 1786 recognized Lynchburg, the settlement by Lynch's Ferry on the James River.
Shallow-draft James River bateau provided a mostly easy means of transit through Lynchburg down to Richmond and eventually the Atlantic Ocean (although rocks, downed trees and flood debris were constant hazards, so their removal became expensive ongoing maintenance and led to assembly of a canal and towpath).
The General Assembly recognized the settlement's expansion by incorporating Lynchburg as a town in 1805 and as a town/city in 1852.
In between, Lynch assembled Lynchburg's first bridge athwart the James River, a toll structure which replaced his ferry in 1812.
In 1810, Jefferson wrote, "Lynchburg is perhaps the most rising place in the U.S....
Lynchburg was a deadly place for the worship of God'." Itinerant Methodist Francis Asbury attended the town; Methodists assembled its first church in 1805; and it hosted the last Virginia Methodist Conference that bishop Asbury visited (February 20, 1815). Nonetheless, as Lynchburg's people and visitors interval wealthier, prostitution and other "rowdy" activities became quite common and often ignored, if not accepted, especially in a downtown region alluded to as the "Buzzard's Roost." Also, pro-slavery Methodist preacher and later bishop John Early became one of Lynchburg's civic leaders.
On December 3, 1840, the James River and Kanawha Canal from Richmond reached Lynchburg.
It extended as far as Buchanan, Virginia in 1851, but never reached a tributary of the Ohio River as planned. Lynchburg's populace exceeded 6,000 by 1840, and a water works fitness was built.
Although both were repaired, because Virginia's General Assembly continued to refuse to fund a barns to replace it, civic boosters began selling subscriptions for the Lynchburg and Tennessee Railroad the next year.
By the 1850s, Lynchburg (along with New Bedford, Massachusetts) was among the richest suburbs per capita in the US. Tobacco (including the manufacture of plug tobacco in factories using rented slave labor), slave-trading, general commerce, and iron and steel powered the economy. Construction on the new Lynchburg and Tennessee barns had begun in 1850 and a locomotive tested the track in 1852.
However, a locomotive called the "Lynchburg" blew up in Forest, Virginia (near Poplar Forest) later that year, illustrating the new technology's dangers.
Nonetheless, by the Civil War discussed below, three more barns s, including the South Side Railroad from Petersburg, the Orange and Alexandria Railroad (connecting to both Richmond and Washington) and the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad stopped in Lynchburg.
During the American Civil War, Lynchburg served as a Confederate transit hub and supply depot, as well as had 30 hospitals.
Union General Philip Sheridan appeared headed for Lynchburg on June 10, as he crossed the Chickahominy River and cut the Virginia Central Railroad.
However, Confederate cavalry under General Wade Hampton, including the 2nd Virginia Cavalry from Lynchburg under General Thomas T.
This permitted fast-marching troops under Confederate General Jubal Early to reach inside four miles of Lynchburg on June 16 and tear up the tracks of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad to inhibit Union reinforcements, while Confederate reinforcements straggled in from Charlottesville.
On June 18, 1864, in the Battle of Lynchburg, Early's combined forces, though outnumbered, repelled Union General Hunter's troops.
Lynchburg's defenders had taken pains to problematic a false impression that the Confederate forces inside the town/city were much larger.
Narcissa Owen, wife of the President of the Lynchburg and Tennessee Railroad, later wrote about her similar deception of Union spies. From April 6 to 10, 1865, Lynchburg served as the capital of Virginia.
Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, approximately 20-mile (32 km) east of Lynchburg, ending the Civil War.
Lynchburg surrendered on April 12, to Union General Ranald S.
The barns s which powered Lynchburg's economy were finished by the war's end, and its people deeply resented occupying forces under General J.
In 1881 not only was that barns instead of to Lynchburg, so was another barns along the Shenandoah Valley.
However, Lynchburg was becoming crowded despite town/city limits period in 1874.
In the latter 19th century, Lynchburg embraced manufacturing (the town/city being sometimes alluded to as the "Pittsburgh of the South") and, per capita, again became one of the wealthiest in the United States.
In 1880, Lynchburg resident James Albert Bonsack invented the first cigarette rolling machine.
In 1886, Virginia Baptists established a training school, the Lynchburg Baptist Seminary, which began to offer a college-level program to its African American pupils in 1900.
Now titled the Virginia University of Lynchburg, it is now the city's earliest institution of higher learning.
In 1903, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) established Lynchburg Christian College (later Lynchburg College) in what had been the Westover Hotel resort, which went bankrupt in the Panic of 1901.
In the 2018/2019 year the college's name will be changed to the University of Lynchburg.
World War I Memorial in downtown Lynchburg Lynchburg's factories again worked 24 hours everyday amid World War II.
Perrow, Jr., asked the federal government to change its long-planned route for the interstate highway now known as I-64 between Clifton Forge and Richmond. Since the 1940s, maps of the federal interstate highway fitness prepared a northern route, missing the manufacturing centers at Lynchburg and Roanoke, but federal officials assured Virginia that the state would decide the route. Although initially favoring that northern route, Virginia's State Highway Commission eventually supported a southern route from Richmond via US-360 and US-460, which connected Lynchburg and Roanoke via US-220 from Roanoke to Clifton Forge, then continued west following US-60 into West Virginia. However, in July 1961 Governor Lindsay Almond and US Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges reported that the route would not be changed. Thus Lynchburg became the only town/city with a populace in excess of 50,000 (at the time) not served by an interstate. The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded (now known as the Central Virginia Training School), is just outside Lynchburg in Madison Heights.
The operations were carried out at the institution, then an estimated 8,300 Virginians were sterilized and relocated to Lynchburg, which became a "dumping ground" of sorts for the feeble-minded, poor, blind, epileptic, and those otherwise seen as genetically "unfit" Carrie Buck, whose sterilization the United States Supreme Court authorized in Buck v.
In 1971, small-town pastor Jerry Falwell established Lynchburg Baptist College, which since 1985 has been known as Liberty University, and is now the city's biggest institution of higher education.
Lynchburg now has ten recognized historic districts, four of them in the downtown residentiary area. Since 1971, 40 buildings have also been singly listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Especially since 2002, downtown Lynchburg has experienced momentous revitalization, with hundreds of new loft apartements created through adaptive reuse of historic warehouses and mills.
Lynchburg is positioned at 37 24 13 N 79 10 12 W (37.403672, 79.170205).
Climate data for Lynchburg, Virginia (Lynchburg Regional Airport), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1893 present Bank of the James in Lynchburg The Allied Arts Building in Downtown Lynchburg, instead of in 1931 Of Virginia's larger metro areas, Forbes Magazine ranked Lynchburg the 5th best place in Virginia for company in 2006, with Virginia being the best state in the nation for business. Only 6 places in Virginia were surveyed and most of Virginia's metros/cities were grouped together by Forbes as "Northern Virginia".
Lynchburg accomplished the project of 109th in the whole country in the same survey.
Industries inside the Lynchburg MSA include nuclear technology, pharmaceuticals and material handling.
A range of small businesses with the region has helped maintain a stable economy and minimized the downturns of the nationwide economy. Reaching as high as 1st place (tied) in 2007, Lynchburg has been inside the Top 10 Digital Cities survey for its populace since the survey's inception in 2004. The Lynchburg News & Advance reports that while more citizens are working than ever in greater Lynchburg, wages since 1990 have not kept up with inflation. Central Virginia Labor Council President Walter Fore believes this is due to lack of white-collar jobs.
As of 2009 Forbes has titled Lynchburg as the 70th best metro region for company and careers, ahead of Chicago and behind Baton Rouge.
Virginia Business Magazine reports that Young Professionals in Lynchburg recently conducted a study that clearly showed how much of its young workforce has been lost. According to Lynchburg's 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top private employers in the town/city are: 6 Lynchburg City Public Schools 1,381 7 City of Lynchburg 1,183 The town/city is served by the Lynchburg City Public Schools.
The school board is assigned by the Lynchburg City Council.
The town/city is also home to a number of theological and non-religious private schools, including Appomattox Christian Academy, Desmond T Doss Christian Academy, Holy Cross Regional Catholic School, James River Day School, Liberty Christian Academy, New Covenant Classical Christian School, Temple Christian School, Virginia Episcopal School, and New Vistas School.
Lynchburg is also home to the Central Virginia Governor's School for Science and Technology positioned in Heritage High School.
This magnet school comprises of juniors and seniors chose from each of the Lynchburg region high schools.
As one of eighteen Governor's Schools in Virginia, the Central Virginia Governor's School focuses on infusing technology into both the math and science curriculum.
Colleges and universities in Lynchburg include Central Virginia Community College, Liberty University, Lynchburg College, Randolph College, Sweet Briar College, and Virginia University of Lynchburg.
Lynchburg General Hospital Lynchburg, VA Virginia Baptist Hospital Lynchburg, VA The Greater Lynchburg Transit Company (GLTC) operates the small-town enhance transport bus service inside the city.
Intercity traveler rail and bus services are based out of Kemper Street Station, a historic, three-story train station recently restored and converted by the town/city of Lynchburg to serve as an intermodal core for the community.
Amtrak's long distance Crescent and a Northeast Regional connect Lynchburg with Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans and intermediate points.
The Lynchburg station alone served a total of 85,000 riders in 2015.
Lynchburg has two primary freight barns s.
Lynchburg Regional Airport is solely served by American Eagle to Charlotte.
While not served by an interstate, parts of Route 29 have been upgraded to interstate standards and momentous improvements have been made to Highway 460 in the immediate vicinity to Lynchburg and suburban areas.
In a Forbes periodical survey, Lynchburg ranked 189 for cultural and leisure out of 200 metros/cities surveyed. Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra: Created in 1983, throughout the years a range of music has been presented, from the classical to the patriotic to the popular.
Lynchburg Art Club: The Club was formed in March 1895 and our mission is to promote and advance art in the Lynchburg community.
The following attractions are positioned inside the Lynchburg MSA: Lynchburg Museum: Through the doors of the Lynchburg Museum one can relive the city's past, rich with tales of Monacan tribes, early Quaker settlers, the reign of King Tobacco, the bloody struggle of the Civil War, the New South, and the drama of change in the 20th century.
Old City Cemetery Museums & Arboretum: The most attended historic site in the City of Lynchburg.
Established in 1806, the Old City Cemetery is Lynchburg's only publicly owned burial ground and one of its earliest cemeteries. It is also home to the biggest enhance compilation of heirloom or "antique" roses in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Peaks of Otter: Three mountain peaks in the Blue Ridge Mountains, overlooking the town of Bedford, Virginia and in prominent view throughout most of Lynchburg.
Smith Mountain Lake: The biggest lake entirely inside Virginia, positioned in Bedford County, Virginia (part of the Lynchburg MSA), features about 20,000 surface acres and 500 miles of shoreline.
Craft beverage tourism is prominent for citizens living in Lynchburg as well as the Charlottesville areas.
Percival's Island section of James River strolling trail in Lynchburg Lynchburg is home to sporting affairs and organizations including: Lynchburg College: The Hornets are an NCAA Division III school competing in 13 sports, as a member of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC).
Riverside Runners (Lynchburg Road Runners Club) The chief stop for knowledge on small-town competitions (either for charity or for fun), or competitions inside a several hours of the encircling area.
The first neighborhoods of Lynchburg advanced upon seven hills contiguous to the initial ferry landing.
Notable inhabitants of Lynchburg include: The News & Advance, Lynchburg's everyday journal that serves the Central Virginia region and is owned by Berkshire Hathaway.
WSET, ABC partner based in Lynchburg WWCW, Fox partner based in Lynchburg, which was previously WJPR WLHG-CD, Liberty University channel based in Lynchburg WJJX 102.7, Urban Contemporary based in Lynchburg WLNI 105.9, Talk Radio based in Lynchburg WKHF 93.7, Hot AC based in Lynchburg WRVL 88.3, (The Journey) Christian Radio based in Lynchburg WRXT 90.3, Contemporary Christian Radio based in Lynchburg, part of the "Sprit FM" network of Contemporary Christian stations WHTU 103.9, Oldies based in Lynchburg WVBE 100.1, Urban Contemporary based in Lynchburg WYYD 107.9, Country based in Lynchburg WZZI/WZZU 101.5, Roanoke/ 97.9, Lynchburg, Classic/Modern Rock based in Lynchburg WBRG 1050, Talk/ Sports based in Lynchburg also simulcast on 104.5 WKPA 1390, Religious based in Lynchburg WLLL 930, Gospel Music based in Lynchburg WLVA 580, (silent), based in Lynchburg WVGM 1320, ESPN Sports based in Lynchburg National Register of Historic Places listings in Lynchburg, Virginia Official records for Lynchburg were kept at the Weather Bureau Office from January 1893 to July 1944, and at Lynchburg Regional since August 1944.
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Downtown Lynchburg.
"Downtown Lynchburg Projects Map".
Downtown Lynchburg Projects Map.
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Lynchburg Department of Tourism; https://gravegarden.org/lynchburg-burial-grounds/ See also: Bibliography of the history of Lynchburg, Virginia Lynchburg, Va.: Lynchburg Home Guard via John W.
A Prototype of a Confederate Hospital Center in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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