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history of federal hills: History of Lynchburg Part 6-Federal Hill-History of a Neighborhood - 08/24/09 11:16 PM
 History of Lynchburg Part 6-Federal Hill-History of a Neighborhood
"Lynchburg is growing more rapidly than any town I have ever known in any country." So Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1817. He might have added that much of that growth was occurring on a certain hill just to the southwest of the original town limits. In fact, Federal Hill, as it soon came to be called, was Lynchburg's first residential suburb. Two annexations, one in 1814, just prior to Jefferson's observation, the second following in 1819, brought Federal Hill within the town's jurisdiction. The wording of deeds transferring property from the town's … (10 comments)

 
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