HISTORIC | Old Lynchburg
PRESENTED FROM THE LEGACY MUSEUM!! AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISES IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA, 1820-1970!!
HERE ARE A FEW RARE AND EARLY SHOTS OF OLD, OLD LYNCHBURG! <<<<<CLICK ONCE ANY PICTURE TO ENLARGE IT AND READ THE TITLES!!>>>>
Early downtown!
Early downtown, looking up Church St!
Business District!
Early Monument Terrace!
Early Main St! ....from the eighties, the 1880's!
Early Main St....notice the 2-way traffic!
Looking up 9th St!
Early Main St!
Downtown Warehouse!
Early Courthouse!
Fire at the Academy Theater!
Water Department!
War nurses!
Troop train!
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Early Lynchburg College!
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Early T.C. Miller!
Early Dunbar High School!
Early "Freedmens" School!
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Early downtown.
Downtown Post Office....it then moved across the street.
Early water system.
Oakwood Country Club.
Early Jones Memorial Library.
Odd Fellows Home.
Early Main Street.
Early Main Street.
The Hotel Carroll.
The Krise Building.
There was a bad storm, and it was a few weeks before the Jefferson pool could reopen! How many remember going down the ramp after a cold shower, to the pool?
BELOW ARE A FEW MORE SHOTS OF LYNCHBURG, BEFORE I WAS BORN! I WOULD LOVE TO GO BACK IN TIME AND WALK THE STREETS AGAIN!
Map of the Original Lynchburg 7 hills!
Old Lynchburg,1945, Main Street area!
Old Lynchburg, 1950, Main Street area!
Old Lynchburg, 1945, Main Street area!
Lynchburg in 1957! Remember the big red and beige busses, we used to catch the "Cabell St" bus to go downtown!
Main Street in 1958!
Old Lynchburg 1950's!
Old Lynchburg, 1890's?
Rivermont Bridge!