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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YYX_dunbar-high-school_Lynchburg-VA.html
"We love Old Dunbar best of all, the ideals for which she stands: We are her sons and daughters true and we try to bring her fame . . . " —Alma Mater
The successful school and its community are inseparable. The school is the com…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YYT_lucille-chaffin-kent_Lynchburg-VA.html
Lucille Kent, born near here, was among the first
Virginia women to earn an instructor's rating
in aeronautics. In 1939 she began teaching
meteorology, navigation, and civil air regulations
at E. C. Glass High School. During World War II,
she…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YYQ_samuel-miller_Lynchburg-VA.html
Samuel Miller, born in poverty in Albemarle
County, became a successful Lynchburg tobacco
merchant as a young adult. Investments in land,
bonds, banks, and railroads later made him one
of antebellum Virginia's wealthiest men. Though
reclusive…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YYI_lucile-barrow-turner_Lynchburg-VA.html
'Cile Turner, a Southside Virginia native who
resided near Lynchburg, championed African
American folk music during her 50-year career
as a composer, folklorist, and performer. A
white, affluent, married woman, she transcended
social norms as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YYF_paul-laurence-dunbar-high-school_Lynchburg-VA.html
African American community leaders petitioned
Lynchburg's school board for a new high school
to serve black students early in the 1920s.
Named for poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the school
opened here in 1923. Shop, home economics, and
administra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YY9_georgia-weston-morgan_Lynchburg-VA.html
Artist and educator Georgia Morgan studied
painting at Randolph-Macon Woman's College
and at the Académie Julian in Paris. She was a
co-founder of the Lynchburg Civic Art League
in 1932 and helped establish the city's Federal
Art Galle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YY3_dr-robert-withers-morgan_Lynchburg-VA.html
Dental innovator Dr. Robert W. Morgan lived
here. Troubled by the lack of dental care for
soldiers while he served in the Confederate
army, he studied dentistry after the war. During
the 1880s he formulated dental hygiene products
including D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OTB_camp-davis_Lynchburg-VA.html
Camp Davis, a Civil War mustering ground for
Confederate troops from Virginia
under the
command of Col. Jubal
A. Early, once occupied
this area. At least 130 Southern soldiers died
at the camp's own Pratt Hospital and were
buried in Lynchbu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OT8_amelia-perry-prides-dorchester-home_Lynchburg-VA.html
Near this spot stood a small frame house known
as Dorchester Home or Old Folks Home for
impoverished former slave women.
Established
in 1897 by Hampton Institute graduate and
Lynchburg public school principal Amelia Perry
Pride (1857-1932), …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EO6_gravestone-carvers-in-the-old-city-cemetery_Lynchburg-VA.html
The dates beneath each carver's name represent the span of his gravestones in the cemetery. The Fieldstone CarverFirst Gravestone Carver in Lynchburg1811-1849
The fieldstone carver is the oldest professional carver of grave stones in the Old Ci…