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In exchange for legal recognition of the couple's adopted daughter, Mary Watts Jones entered into agreement to J. Gordon Payne, Walker Pettyjohn, O. B. Barker. and W. B. Hatcher to donate $50,000 for the purpose of establishing an Association for "The said Library shall be called 'The George M. Jones Memorial Library', and shall be for the free ...
Phillip & John Alexander, brothers and area plantation owners 155,230: 15 sq mi (39 km 2) Bristol: 520: N/A: 1890 [13] From Washington County [13] Bristol, England 16,807: 12 sq mi (31 km 2) Buena Vista: 530: N/A: 1892 [13] From Rockbridge County [13] from the Buena Vista Company, which founded an iron mine in the area and established the town ...
The name was changed to Lynchburg State Colony in 1940, Lynchburg Training School and Hospital in 1954, and since 1983, has been known as the Central Virginia Training Center. The records of Central Virginia Training Center can be found at the Library of Virginia. [10]
The Lynch Ferry across the James River was established by the family in about 1745. [1] In 1757, seventeen-year-old John Lynch took over control of the ferry business. Years later, first in 1784 and again in 1786, Lynch petitioned the General Assembly of Virginia for a charter to establish a town on the bluffs above the ferry upon land Lynch had inherited from an older brother.
The Lynchburg Ferry is a free ferry across the Houston Ship Channel in the U.S. state of Texas, connecting Crosby-Lynchburg Road in Lynchburg to the north with the former State Highway 134 and San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in La Porte to the south.
Location of Lynchburg in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lynchburg, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
It has been estimated that over 90% of Lynchburg's enslaved and free African American population are buried in the Old City Cemetery, the primary burial site for African Americans from 1806 to 1865. In fact, at that time it was the only burial ground, excluding private family graveyards, available to African Americans in the area.
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