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    • Lynchburg in the 60s
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  • Spring 2007
  • Back Issues: 1980s
    • Stonewall Jackson's Return to Lexington Through Lynchburg
    • Preserving The Packet Boat
    • Early Packet Boat Days
    • Why the Babcock & Wilcox Co. Chose Lynchburg
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  • Fall 2007
  • Back Issues: 1990s
    • John Randolph and the Field of Honor
    • Oxford Iron Works
    • The History of Riverside Park
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      • Gallery - Riverside Park Images
    • “Hang-Out” Lynchburg, Virginia in the 1950s
    • History in Brief
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  • Spring 2008
  • Back Issues: 2000s
    • 'Cile Turner
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    • Lynchburg’s New Deal Tragedy: The Transient Bureau Fire of 1934
    • Douglas Southall Freeman: Renowned Man of Letters
    • Abram Frederick Biggers
    • Lewis Hine in Lynchburg
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  • Fall 2008
    • New Glasgow
      • Bibliography
    • Life at Tusculum During the Nineteenth Century
    • Clifford: A Historical Driving Tour of the Old Village
      • Clifford: Full Tour with Notes
    • Books about New Glasgow and Amherst County
    • Growing Up in Lynchburg on Wheels with Motors
    • Jen Ayres: A Remembrance of Her Life and Love of Art
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  • Spring 2009
    • For Our Own Good: Central Virginia’s African American Civic and Social Groups
    • The Oldest Photo of Lynchburg?
    • Little Champions
    • John Lee Pratt Anonymous Philanthropist
    • Elias Schewel
    • A Salute to Jimmie Ray: A Madison Heights Icon
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    • History in Brief
  • Fall 2009
    • Aviator Vincent “Squeek” Burnett
    • James Roland Kyle, Jr.
    • Lynchburg and Its Canal Era
    • Samuel Spencer and the Trains That Served the South
    • The Earl of Lynchburg: The Racing Career of Earl Lee Brooks
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