Lynchburg Virginia Sketches and Recollections
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By Its Oldest Inhabitant
Published 1858, 360 pages
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First settled in 1757, Lynchburg was named for its founder, John
Lynch, who at the age of 17 started a ferry service at a ford across
the James River to route traffic to and from New London. He was also
responsible for Lynchburg's first bridge across the river, which
replaced the ferry in 1812. He and his mother are buried in the
graveyard at the South River Friends Meetinghouse. The "City of Seven
Hills" quickly developed along the hills surrounding Lynch's Ferry.
Thomas Jefferson maintained a home near Lynchburg, called Poplar
Forest. Jefferson frequented Lynchburg and remarked "Nothing would
give me greater pleasure than to be useful to the town of Lynchburg.
During the American Civil War, Lynchburg, which served as a
Confederate supply base, was approached within one mile by the Union
forces of General David Hunter as he drove south from the Shenandoah
Valley. Under the false impression that the Confederate forces
stationed in Lynchburg were much larger than anticipated, Hunter was
repelled by the forces of Confederate General Jubal Early on June 18,
1864, in the Battle of Lynchburg. To create the false impression, a
train was continuously run up and down the tracks while the citizens
of Lynchburg cheered as if reinforcements were unloading. In the
latter 19th century, Lynchburg's economy evolved into manufacturing
(sometimes referred to as the "Pittsburgh of the South") and, per
capita, made the city one of the wealthiest in the United States. In
1880, Lynchburg resident James Albert Bonsack invented the first
cigarette rolling machine, and shortly thereafter Dr. Charles Browne
Fleet, a physician and pharmacological tinkerer, introduced the first
mass marketed over-the-counter enema, which the company he founded
still manufactures (along with other laxative and bowel cleansing
products, as noted on the company's website. Dr. Fleet also invented
ChapStick as a lip balm in Lynchburg in the early 1880s. About this
time, Lynchburg was also the preferred site for the Norfolk & Western
junction with the Shenandoah Valley Railroad. However, the citizens of
Lynchburg did not want the junction due to the noise and pollution it
would create. Therefore, it was located in what would become the City
of Roanoke.
Book Contents:
The Lynch Family Episcopal Church in Lynchburg
Reformed Methodist Church Quakers in Lunchburg Masonry in
Lynchburg Fortunatus Sydnor Mrs. Henry
Davis Thomas Eston Randolph The Byrd
Family Christopher Anthony Miscellaneous
Characters An Old Couple Mrs. Anna W.
Anthony The Cabell Family Mrs.
Taliaferro Court and Bar of Lynchburg The Winston
Family The Tucker Family Mrs. Margaret
Daniel The Norvell Family The
Towles Family The Irvine Family
The Warwick Family Rev. William S. Reid
The Harrison Family Robert
Morriss Watering Places of Lynchburg
Cyclopedia of Lynchburg Literature Thomas Wiatt, Sr.
Baptist Church in Lynchburg Public Amusements of Lynchburg The
Dabney Family Supernatural Visitors Methodist Church in
Lynchburg Captain Thomas A. Holcombe Daniel
Sheffey The Owens Family Royall
Family Philip Dodddridge
Schools on Church Street Mr. and Mrs. Barnes
Burial Places of Lynchburg The Langhorne Family The Murrel
Family