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Reviving Lynchburg’s History: The Ongoing Efforts of the Lynchburg Historical Foundation

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  • February 4th, 2023
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Lynchburg, Virginia has a rich and storied history, with a downtown area filled with historic buildings that tell the story of the city’s growth and development. In recent years, the […]

What Exactly Was Made In Virginia?

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  • August 5th, 2022
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For more than 400 years, Virginians have been part of a global community—exporting ideas, products, and culture to the rest of the world. Although the commonwealth has become more urban […]

The Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum

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  • June 15th, 2022
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Anne Spencer was a poet, a civil rights activist, a teacher, librarian, wife and mother, and a gardener.   More than thirty of her poems were published in her lifetime, […]

The Curious History of Percival Island

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  • December 20th, 2021
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Nestled in the James River, Percival’s Island Natural Area serves as both a piece of Lynchburg’s history and a natural resource for the community to enjoy. Once a private home […]

Monument Terrace in Lynchburg Virginia

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  • November 15th, 2021
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Monument Terrace was originally conceived as a city project in the early 1880s. August Forsberg, the city engineer, was asked to provide a better route for citizens to move along […]

How Virginia Became A Transportation State

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  • September 2nd, 2021
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For most of history, humans have lived in a four-mile-an-hour world. People traveled only as fast as their feet, their animals, or the wind could carry them. This began to […]

The Quite Miraculous Story of Amazement Square

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  • July 10th, 2021
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Turning back the pages of the J.W. Wood Building’s history, one thing becomes clear: the bricks and mortar that make up this unique, Civil War-era structure have meant many things […]

Thomas Jefferson and the Poplar Forest Plantation

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  • June 10th, 2021
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Poplar Forest is a plantation and plantation house in Forest, Bedford County, Virginia. Thomas Jefferson designed the plantation and used the property as a private retreat and a revenue-generating plantation. […]

The Old City Cemetery Rose Garden

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  • May 10th, 2021
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Old City Cemetery is home to the largest public collection of heirloom roses in the Commonwealth of Virginia. There are over 425 different varieties planted throughout the grounds, representing all […]

The Appomattox Court House and Battlefield

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  • April 17th, 2021
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Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is comprised of many of the village’s original historic structures, along with several reconstructed buildings on approximately 1,700 acres in rural Virginia. The Wilmer […]

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