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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…
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