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Lynchburg, Virginia. / 37.40361°N 79.17000°W / 37.40361; -79.17000. Lynchburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. First settled in 1757 by ferry owner John Lynch, the city's population was 79,009 at the 2020 census, making Lynchburg the 11th most populous city in Virginia. [3]
Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 [ O.S. May 18, 1736] – June 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.
On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of Virginia at 1:51:04 p.m. EDT. The epicenter, in Louisa County, was 38 mi (61 km) northwest of Richmond and 5 mi (8 km) south-southwest of the town of Mineral. It was an intraplate earthquake with a maximum perceived intensity of VIII ( Severe) on the ...
Sep 14, 2002 · Spotsylvania woman dies in early Tuesday morning fire at her mobile home. Two dead in Fluvanna County plane crash. For the unfortunate Jackson family, it was a case of the road not taken leading ...
Apr 4, 2024 · Try 3rd: 1853-1912 At FamilySearch.org. Free; Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912: dates vary by county; list of county coverage. Try 4th: 1853-1917 at Ancestry.com. ($); 1853-1917 Free at FamilySearch Centers and Libraries; Virginia, Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917: Find your local FamilySearch Center OR use your own Ancestry subscription.
The A. Smith Bowman Distillery is a distillery that was originally based on the Bowman family's 7,200-acre Sunset Hills Farm in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, in what later became the planned community of Reston. The distillery was founded in 1934 on the day after the end of Prohibition, by Abram Smith Bowman and his sons, Abram Smith ...
Virginia State Parks staff at Sky Meadows State Park wearing masks while working on August 11, 2020. All of Virginia entered Phase II on June 12, and Phase III on July 1. On July 15, the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry adopted binding safety regulations on COVID-19, the first such regulations in the United States. The regulations ...
