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Lynchburg and Vicinity History
Virginia's classic tobacco town goes by a few different monikers.  As the "City of Seven Hills," Lynchburg (pop. 66,000) bulges with lofty historic districts and stately inns.  As the center of Virginia's conservative religious heartland, it's also called the "Buckle in the Bible Belt," with more than 130 houses of worship, Jerry Falwells's Liberty University, Dial-the-Bible listings in the White Pages, and radio preachers who end every sentence in "-uh."  (The years 2002 was Falwell's 46th year preaching at the Thomas Road Baptist Church.)  Even its tourist slogan "The Real Virginia" rings true thanks to Lynchburg's combination of the new  (ideas debated in several medium-sized colleges) and the old (Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest and Appomattox Court House, both nearby).
After earning his freedom from a wealthy Quaker planter, indentured Irish servant Charles Lynch went on to marry the boss's daughter and build the town's first warehouses and commercial buildings on land he had acquired along the upper James River.  In  1757, his son John set up a ferry terminal at the bottom of today's 9th Street, and Lynchburg was off and running as a regional commercial center.
Trade poured in along the river, the James River and Kanawah Canal from Richmond, and railroads ... more

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