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Spring 2006
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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 Virginiaâ€: Charlotte Scott and the Scott and Rucker Families of Lynchburg
Millner’s Department Store: “Synonymous With the City It Servesâ€
Place, Pride, and Public Relations: The Lynchburg Foundry’s Unlikely History Magazine
Excerpts from “Trouble Don’t Las’ Alwaysâ€: 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!â€: Creating a “new kind of girl†at Camp Suhling
“A Favorite Resort in the Heated Seasonâ€: 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 Fightâ€
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 Outdoorsâ€: 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 “Shoemakersâ€
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
From the Editor