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unusual facts about Lynchburg, VA



30th Virginia Sharpshooters Battalion

Wharton's brigade was again moved east, fighting at Cold Harbor before returning west with General Jubal Early's Second Corps to stop Maj. Gen. David Hunter from destroying the vital supply center at Lynchburg, Virginia.

Alfred D. Barksdale

He was replaced as an active judge by Roby C. Thompson, although he continued to serve as a senior judge until his death, in Lynchburg.

Andy Husbands

iQUE became the first New England Team to become world champions of BBQ by winning the Jack Daniels World Championships in Lynchburg, Tennessee in 2010.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 501

The business routes and US 221 pass through a commercial area and by the Anne Spencer House, then turn west onto 12th Street and cross Norfolk Southern's Danville District rail line a few blocks south of the Lynchburg-Kemper Street Station, which is served by Amtrak.

Carrie Allen McCray

Carrie Allen McCray (October 4, 1913 – July 25, 2008) was an African-American writer born in Lynchburg, Virginia, whose published works include Ajös Means Goodbye (1966), The Black Woman and Family Roles (1980), and her first-person memoir, Freedom’s Child: The Life of a Confederate General’s Black Daughter (1998).

Chuck Carrington

Chuck Carrington (born 1968 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American actor best known for playing Petty Officer Jason Tiner on JAG, and also star as Renny Jacobson independent feature thriller The List alongside Malcolm McDowell and Hilarie Burton.

Clover Hill Tavern

It was built by Alexander Patteson and his brother Lilburne Patteson as a stagecoach stop for the line between Cumberland County and Lynchburg.

Derek Cha

Their next stores were then opened in Chesterfield, Richmond, Charlottesville, Lynchburg and Williamsburg, Virginia.

God Is Good – Worship with Don Moen

The Contemporary Christian album was recorded live at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, together with 7000 worshippers.

J. B. Matthews

In 1964, with his health in decline, Matthews left the employ of the Hearst organization and sold a substantial part of his files to the Church League of America based in Wheaton, Illinois, before passing to Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

James Dearing

Just prior to his death at the Ladies' Relief Hospital, he was visited and paroled by his old West Point classmate, Brig. Gen. Ranald S. Mackenzie, then commanding in Lynchburg.

Jeffrey K. Hadden

He was probably best known for his studies of religious broadcasters and the emergence of the Christian Right in America during the 1980s, studying the ministries of Jerry Falwell in nearby Lynchburg, and Pat Robertson in Virginia Beach.

Laurie Bartram

After Friday the 13th, Bartram directed and choreographed local theater productions, made costumes for numerous productions and did voice work for local businesses including WSET in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Mary O'Connell

Sister Anthony also served at the battlefields of Winchester, Virginia; the Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, Richmond, Virginia, Nashville, Tennessee, Gallipolis, Ohio, Culpeper Court House, Virginia, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, and Lynchburg, Virginia.

Point of Honor

It was later owned by Judge William Daniel, Jr., father of United States Senator John Warwick Daniel, "the Lame Lion of Lynchburg." During and immediately after the Civil War it was owned and occupied by Colonel Robert L. Owen Sr., who was President of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and whose son Robert Latham Owen Jr. later became a United States Senator.

Robert Reed Church

According to family accounts, Emmeline was the daughter of a white planter from Lynchburg, Virginia and a "Malay" Malagasy princess.

Snowflex

Following its launch in 1996 Snowflex has been installed at over thirty slope operations, including: Bearsden, near Glasgow; Noeux les Mines in northern France; Valladolid in Spain; Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Sterling Allen Brown

That same year of 1923, Brown was hired as an English lecturer at Virginia Theological Seminary and College in Lynchburg, Virginia, a position he would hold for the next three years.

Thaxton, Virginia

The transmitter for the Lynchburg-Roanoke market ABC television network affiliate WSET-TV is located approximately 2.8 miles SSE of the town center.

Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

The work of the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities had its beginning in Lynchburg in 1935.

Virginia Organizing

The first VOP chapter formed in Lee County, and the Lynchburg Chapter also hosted the first three-day Dismantling Racism Workshop, kick-starting workshops all across the state.

WNRN

Serving Lynchburg, Virginia, WNRN shares a frequency with Sweet Briar College on 89.9 FM (WNRS-FM Sweetbriar), and broadcasts all but a few hours of the day when locally originated programming airs on WNRS-FM.

WVBE

WVBE-FM, a radio station (100.1 FM) licensed to Lynchburg, Virginia, United States


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