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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10SB_point-of-honor_Lynchburg-VA.html
Col. Robert Owen, president of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, owned Point of Honor during the war. This railroad, one of three that served Lynchburg, transported thousands of Confederate troops as well as wounded, supplies, prisoners of war,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVD7_court-street-baptist-church_Lynchburg-VA.html
The congregation was organized in 1843,when Lynchburg's African American Baptistswere separated from First Baptist Church.The new African Baptist Church of Lynchburg met in a converted theater. It was demolished in 1879, after the deaths of eight …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVCH_john-daniels-home_Lynchburg-VA.html
This Federal-style mansion was built by John Marshall Warwick in 1826. It was the birthplace of John Warwick Daniel, grandson of the builder, whose father was Judge William Daniel, resident of nearby Point of Honor. John W. Daniel was known as the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVCF_samuel-d-rockenbach_Lynchburg-VA.html
Nearby at 805 Madison Street is the birthplace of General Rocken?bach, "Father of the U.S. Army Tank Corps." He began his education in Lynch?burg schools and was honor graduate of Virginia Military Institute in 1889. As first chief of the Army's t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVB0_mr-elders-rose-garden_Lynchburg-VA.html
Lawrence Lloyd Elder (1896-1964) was a valued employeeof the City of Lynchburg for over 34 years. His specialdomain was gardening and his responsibility the greenhousesin Miller Park where the city's flowers were raised for use inthe parks. Later …
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Born January 4, 1858, in a house which stood on this site. Newspaper publisher; member of the State Senate and delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902; member of the United States House of Representatives, 1902-1918, and princ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVAK_point-of-beginning_Lynchburg-VA.html
In October, 1786, the General Assembly approved that 45 acres of land belonging to John Lynch be laid off in half-acre lots to establish a town by the name of Lynchburg. The original trustees Charles Brooks, Jesse Burton, John Callaway, John Clark…
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In 1757 John Lynch opened a ferry here; in 1765 a church was built. In 1786 Lynchburg was established by act of Assembly; in 1791 the first tobacco warehouse was built. Lynchburg was incorporated as a town in 1805. In 1840 the James River and Kana…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSSC_oxford-furnace_Lynchburg-VA.html
Just south across Little Beaver Creek stand the ruins of the last of three Oxford Iron Works furnaces built in the vicinity. Virginia and Pennsylvania investors began the ironworks nearby between 1768 and 1772 as a small bloomery forge. According …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSSB_mount-athos_Lynchburg-VA.html
Two miles north stand massive sandstone walls and four chimneys, the ruins of Mount Athos, overlooking a bend of the James River. The house was built about 1800 for William J. Lewis (1766-1828) on land that had been patented in 1742 by John Bollin…