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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Amherst County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
The Lexington Historic District is a national historic district located at Lexington, Virginia. It includes 11 contributing buildings on 600 acres (240 ha) and dates from 1823. It includes Greek Revival , Queen Anne , "Picturesque Cottage", and other architecture.
July 26, 1972 (Roughly bounded by the former Chesapeake and Ohio Railway line, Graham and Jackson Aves., and Estill and Jordan Sts.: Includes several other listings, such as Washington and Lee University, Virginia Military Institute, Alexander-Withrow House, and Lexington Presbyterian Church
Lexington Reservoir aerial, from the north, with Monterey Bay and the Monterey Peninsula in the background. The reservoir is in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, at an elevation of 645 feet (197 m). [2] [5] State Route 17 runs alongside the dam's western edge and over part of the reservoir. Alma Bridge Road (Limekiln Canyon Road) runs ...
The James River and Kanawha Canal was a project first proposed by George Washington when he was a young man surveying the mountains of western Virginia, which at the time consisted of what is today West Virginia, Kentucky, and to the north bank of the Ohio river. He was searching for a way to open a water route to the West.
[5] Washington and Lee History Professor Ted DeLaney, who was born and grew up in Lexington during Jim Crow and spent more than 45 years of his 60-year career at W&L, more than a quarter-century as a professor, including serving as the first Black chair of the History Department, said in 2019, "W&L is unique because the entire campus is a ...
State Sent. Katrina Shealy (left) and Lexington Mayor Hazel Livingston address the crowd at a June 18, 2024 press conference revealing details for the Sunset Split traffic project.
Agnes Kendall was not interested in the property and turned it over to the state in 1929. [2] In 1933 Harold S. Wagner, the Director-Secretary of the Akron Metropolitan Park District in Summit County, Ohio, filed with the National Park Service to create a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Virginia Kendall Park. Approval of the application ...