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    • Spring 2006
    • Books
      • Lynchburg in the 60s
      • No Matter How Long: The Struggle to Integrate
      • The Great Society, Vietnam, and Central Virginia
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        • Ruby Baker Testimony
        • Louise Barr Testimony
        • Rick Barr Testimony
        • Robert Feagan Testimony
        • John George, Jr. Testimony
        • Danny & Lousie Harker Testimony
        • Frank Nichols Testimony
        • Bennie White Testimony
      • R-MWC in the 60s
      • From the Jones Library
      • History in Brief
      • Book of Interest
    • Fall 2006
    • Prints
      • Floyd Ward & Her School
      • A History of the Old City Cemetery in Pictures
      • Bicentennial of Poplar Forest
      • The Mother Church of Methodism in Lynchburg
        • Take a Tour of Churches
          • Present Centenary
          • Church Parsonage
          • Site of Rivermont Avenue Methodist Church
          • Danielstown Chapel
          • Samuel Mitchell's Home
          • The Reformed Methodist Church
          • Site of Masonic Hall
          • Site of first Third St. Methodist Meeting House
          • Site of Old Centenary
          • Franklin Hill Chapel
          • Madison Heights Methodist Episcopal Church
          • Court Street Methodist Church
          • Old City Cemetery
          • Park View Methodist Church
          • Quaker Meeting House
          • Centenary Parsonage
          • Previous Parsonage
      • Orchards of Tobacco Row Mountain
      • Recent Drawings by Frank B. Wright, Jr.
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      • From the Editor
      • From the Jones Library
      • History in Brief
      • Books of Interest
    • 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
      • Mount Athos
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      • War Years with Jeb Stuart
      • John Chilembwe
      • From the Editor
      • From the Jones Library
      • History in Brief
      • Books of Interest
    • 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
      • Books of Interest
      • From the Editor
    • 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
      • From the Editor
      • History in Brief
      • Books of Interest
    • Fall 2008
    • Back Issues: 2010s
      • 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
      • From the Editor
      • History in Brief
      • Books of interest
    • Back Issues: 2020s
    • 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
      • From the Editor
      • 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
      • History in Brief
      • Books of Interest
      • From the Editor
    • Spring 2010
    • Fall 2010
    • Spring 2011
      • “Culture of the Earth” The Archaeology of the Ornamental Plant Nursery and an Antebellum Slave Cabin at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest
      • Central Virginia’s Southern Soldiers A Photographic Essay
      • Lynchburg Glass Corporation
      • books of interest
      • History in brief
      • From the Editor
    • Fall 2011
      • C. Warren Falwell Entrepreneur and Family Man
      • A Century of Contemporary Art
      • 4402 Boonsboro Road
      • “The Gipper” In Lynchburg
      • History in brief
      • books of interest
      • From the Editor
    • Spring 2012
      • The National D-Day Memorial and the Dilemma of American Memory
      • Robert G. Scott and the Riverside Mansion
      • Lynchburg Antiquarian Club: The First Twenty-five Years
      • The Construction of Lynchburg’s First Skyscraper
      • Storing Family Heirlooms
      • From the Editor
      • History in brief
      • Books of interest
    • Fall 2012
      • The Lynchburg Belt Line and the "West End" Depot
      • The J. M. Bell Foundry
      • "The Sweeneys are indeed a wonder!!": The banjo from Africa to Appomattox
        • Sweeney Music
      • From the Editor
      • History in Brief
    • Spring 2013
      • Buffalo Bill Comes to Lynchburg
      • Seven Facts of Local Black History Every Lynchburger Should Know
      • "Overwhelmed by Rock Avalanche": Tragedy on the C&O Railroad
      • Journey to the Land of Lynches
      • History in Brief
      • From the Editor
    • Fall 2013
      • “A Freedwoman of Virginia”: Charlotte Scott and the Scott and Rucker Families of Lynchburg
      • Millner’s Department Store: “Synonymous With the City It Serves”
      • Place, Pride, and Public Relations: The Lynchburg Foundry’s Unlikely History Magazine
      • Excerpts from “Trouble Don’t Las’ Always”: The Legacy Museum’s Civil War Sesquicentennial Exhibit
      • Editor's Letter
      • History in Brief
    • Spring 2014
      • The E. C. Glass Art Collection: A Community Treasure
      • One Image Leads to Another
      • A Forgotten Entrance to Hell: The Lynchburg Prisoner of War Camp, 1862-1865
      • Monroe, Virginia One Hundred Years on the Old Southern Railway by Thomas G. Ledford
      • Editor's Letter
      • History in brief
    • Fall 2014
      • Sketches from the Fort Delaware Prison
      • The Battle of Lynchburg: A Sesquicentennial Look Back
      • One Man’s Outrage: Samuel Miller and the Day the Yankees Came
      • When Carry Nation, “The Bar Room Smasher,” Came to Lynchburg
      • Where Carry Nation Did Not Go: Prohibition in the Blue Ridge Mountains
      • From the Editor
      • History in Brief
    • Spring 2015
      • “Air, Air, Everywhere!”: Creating a “new kind of girl” at Camp Suhling
      • “A Favorite Resort in the Heated Season”: The Changing Uses of Miller Park, 1861-1955
      • Brain Food: The Sweet Briar Farm, 1910
      • The House of Sweets: Lynchburg’s Harris-Woodson Candy Company, 1892–1956
      • Reunited: A War Souvenir Returns To Appomattox
    • Fall 2015
      • From the editor
      • Crossing Boundaries: The Pioneering Career of Dr. Peter W. Houck
      • Forgotten Faces
      • “Somehow History Does Survive” Peter Houck’s Contributions to Central Virginia’s Historical Legacy
      • William Johns
    • Spring 2016
      • From the editor
      • The Lynchburg Public Library & Friends 1966-2016: Fifty Years of Service to All Citizens
      • Robert C. Wesley, M.D. and the Racial Integration of Medical Care in Lynchburg
      • On the Precipice: Lynchburg at the Dawn of the Great Depression
    • Fall 2016
      • Lynchburg’s Lost Opportunity
      • Merrily We’re Marching Onward: Growing up at the Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum
      • Fulfilling the Dream
    • Spring 2017
      • From Lynchburg to Liberia
      • Lynchburg’s Notorious Historian
      • Memories, Fond and Painful, of Black Bottom
      • “I’ll Get Myself Killed Trying to Make These Men Fight”
    • Fall 2017
      • Pen Clark’s Architectural Career Between the Wars by S. Allen Chambers Jr.
      • Memories Behind the Marker: A Tribute to Helen Pesci Wood
      • The Escape Artist
    • Spring 2018
      • Training America’s Youth in “Woodlore, Watersports, and the Mysteries of the Great Outdoors”: Lynchburg-Area Boy Scout Camps in the Twentieth Century
      • Through the Lens of James Thomas Smith: An Archive of Lynchburg’s Black History
      • The Day I Met MLK
      • The 1917 Lynchburg “Shoemakers”
    • Fall 2018
      • Stanhope Spencer Johnson’s Lynchburg Architectural Legacy
      • Should They Stay, or Should They Go?
      • The Riverside Town of Bethel on Salt Creek
      • The Temptations Are Coming!
    • Spring 2019
      • Col. Aug. Forsberg, City Engineer
      • Black Herman and the Entrepreneurial Rucker Family of Main Street, Amherst
      • When Hollywood Came to Lynchburg: Two Important Events in the Life of the Paramount Theatre
      • The Park Avenue Dance Studio
    • Fall 2019
      • My Illegal Bootleg Radio Station: The WKKD Story
      • Corduroy Roads in the James River: What Are We Looking At?
      • Horse Ford to Glass Memorial: The Lynches Establish and Hold a Crossing on the Fluvanna River
      • Renderings in the Lynchburg Architectural Archive
    • Spring 2020
      • XIX: The Untold Story of Women’s Suffrage in Lynchburg, Virginia
      • A Tribute to Rosalie Slaughter Morton (1872–1968)
      • A Modern Stone Age Man in Virginia: Errett Callahan 1937– 2019
      • Ivanhoe of Campbell County
      • Merci, Pauline
    • From the editor
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