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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ENQ_history-of-the-stapleton-station_Lynchburg-VA.html
1898 Station built by Chesapeake & Ohio Railway for $366.59, based on C&O "Standard Station No. 2" design. 1929 C&O Railway made the Station a non-agency station (without an agent) and discontinued its telegraph office. Passengers and freigh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ENK_when-lynchburg-was-lunchburg_Lynchburg-VA.html
During the First World War, many people across the country knew Lynchhurg as "Lunchburg." The City earned this nickname because of its famous Red Cross Canteen Service to soldiers traveling by train through Lynchburg. From 1917 to I919, dedicated …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ENJ_college-hill-reservoir-water-pitcher_Lynchburg-VA.html
The cast-iron pitcher was made by Glamorgan foundry of Lynchburg and given to the city in October 1890 for use at the College Hill Reservoir. Shortly after installation, the local newspaper praised the pitcher as "a handsome and striking ornament"…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ENI_iron-fencing_Lynchburg-VA.html
This cast-iron fence, now surrounding the Earley Memorial Shrub Garden, originally enclosed College Hill Reservoir, located only a few blocks away on Park Ave. It was installed there in 1878 when the city had outgrown the old Clay Street Reservoir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ENH_ivy-chapel-union-church_Lynchburg-VA.html
Ivy Chapel Union Church was built in I880 on Coffee Road in Bedford County, Virginia. The chapel was named for nearby Ivy Creek. It was known as a "union church" because it served as a house of worship for Baptist, Methodist, and Episcopalian cong…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ENG_hermon-methodist-church_Lynchburg-VA.html
Hermon Methodist Church was established in c.1870 in Appomattox County, Virginia. The church was named for the biblical Mount Hermon. It was located east of Route 24 on what is now property of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ENE_the-quartermasters-glanders-stable_Lynchburg-VA.html
Horses and mules were essential to the operation of the Civil War, and bass numbers of animals were needed. Lynchburg, one of the four quartermaster depots for the Confederacy, was supplying General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ENA_the-old-brick-wall_Lynchburg-VA.html
This historic brick wall is all that remains of the Cemetery's original enclosure, which was built in sections beginning in 1827, and extended almost one mile in length. Most of the wall was demolished by the City of Lynchburg as it deteriorate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EMW_lynchburgs-first-public-hanging-1830_Lynchburg-VA.html
Near this spot on the afternoon of August 16, 1830, John M. Jones was hanged in Lynchburg's first public execution. In May of 1829, Jones, A Lynchburg slaveowner, had killed George Hamilton on the James River waterfront in a dispute over Jones's l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EMV_site-of-lynchburgs-pest-house_Lynchburg-VA.html
Site of Lynchburg'sPest House Constructed circa 1840 Served asConfederate Quarantine Hospital1861 - 1865 Demolished 1880
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