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Its builder and designer, Dr. George Cabell, was a friend of Thomas Jefferson, and physician to Patrick Henry. [5] Before building the house, he purchased 856 acres of land including Daniel's Island, Treasure Island and Woodruff Island from Lewellen Jones, who had bought it from Christopher Lynch, son of Quaker patriot Charles Lynch (1736–1796) and nephew of John Lynch, who started the ferry ...
Appomattox County is a United States county located in the Piedmont region and near the center of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county is part of the Lynchburg metropolitan area, and its county seat is the town of Appomattox. [1] Appomattox County was created in 1845 from parts of four other Virginia counties.
US 29 (N & S Amherst Hwy, S. Amherst Hwy is US BUS 29 south of Amherst and then turns into the Lynchburg Expressway in Madison Heights; Monacan Trail) US 60 (Lexington Turnpike; Richmond Hwy) US 501 (joins SR 130 and becomes Elon Rd.) SR 130 (Elon Rd; Amelon Hwy) SR 151 (Patrick Henry Hwy) SR 163 (S Amherst Hwy) SR 210 (Old Town Connector)
700-1300 blocks of Jefferson St., 600-1300 blocks of Commerce St., and 1200-1300 blocks of Main St.; also 1307 Main St. and 103-109 6th St.; also generally bounded by Concord Tpk., CSX RR tracks, East Lynch, Main, and Washington Sts.
Frank Trigg (c. 1850–1933), a black educator and college president, lived in the house until his death. [3]Robert Walter Johnson (1899–1971) was a Lynchburg physician, and the first minority doctor in the entire city to be granted practice rights at the Lynchburg General Hospital.
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In addition to serving as the "Main Street" of Lynchburg's African American community, the corridor served as the community's health and medicine center. By 1940, all but one of Lynchburg's black physicians as well as all four black dentists had offices on Fifth Street. Perhaps Lynchburg's best-known African American physician, Dr. R. Walter ...
The Piedmont region of Virginia is a part of the greater Piedmont physiographic region which stretches from the falls of the Potomac, Rappahannock, and James Rivers to the Blue Ridge Mountains. The region runs across the middle of the state from north to south, expanding outward to a width of nearly 190 miles at the border with North Carolina .