Timeline of Lynchburg, Virginia
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lynchburg, Virginia, United States.
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Prior to 20th century
20th century
21st century
- 2010 - Population: 75,568.[15]
- 2016 - Joan Foster becomes mayor.
- 2017 - May 13: U.S. president gives speech at Liberty University.[11]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
- ↑ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- ↑ American Association for State and Local History (2002). "Virginia: Lynchburg". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). pp. 824+. ISBN 0759100020.
- ↑ "History of Lynchburg, Virginia". City of Lynchburg. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- 1 2 "History of the Library". Jones Memorial Library. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
- ↑ Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Virginia", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
- ↑ Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Virginia", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
- 1 2 "Trump at Liberty University commencement: ‘In America, we don’t worship government; we worship God’", Washington Post, May 13, 2017
- ↑ "Virginia". Official Congressional Directory. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1993 – via HathiTrust.
- ↑ "City of Lynchburg, Virginia". Archived from the original on June 18, 2000 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Kevin Hyde; Tamie Hyde (eds.). "United States of America: Virginia". Official City Sites. Utah. OCLC 40169021. Archived from the original on August 24, 2000.
- ↑ "Lynchburg city, Virginia". QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
Bibliography
- Richard Edwards, ed. (1855), "Lynchburg", Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia, Richmond
- Sketch Book of Lynchburg, Va., Lynchburg: Edward Pollock and S.C. Judson, 1887
- George E. Waring, Jr.; U.S. Department of the Interior, Census Office (1887), "Virginia: Lynchburg", Report on the Social Statistics of Cities: Southern and the Western States, Washington DC: Government Printing Office, pp. 60–64
- "Lynchburg", Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to the Southeastern States, Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1899 – via Internet Archive
- W. Asbury Christian (1900), Lynchburg and its People, J. P. Bell Company, printers, OCLC 2847898
- "Lynchburg", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Lynchburg", Virginia: a Guide to the Old Dominion, American Guide Series, Oxford University Press, pp. 246+ – via Google Books
- Ruth H. Blunt (1965). "Lynchburg's Tobacco Warehouses". Virginia Cavalcade. Library of Virginia. 14. ISSN 0042-6474.
- Michael J. Schewel (1981). "Local Politics in Lynchburg, Virginia, in the 1880s". Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 89. JSTOR 4248478.
- Steven Elliot Tripp (1993). "Race, Class, and Religion: Lynchburg, Virginia's 'Great Revival of 1871'". Mid-America. Loyola University Chicago. 75. ISSN 0026-2927.
- John Nagy (1995). "Survival of Professional Baseball in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1950s-1990s". Essays in History. University of Virginia. 37. ISSN 0071-1411.
- Steven Elliot Tripp (1999). Yankee Town, Southern City: Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-8237-8.
- Clifton Potter; Dorothy Potter (2004). Lynchburg: a City Set on Seven Hills. Charleston, SC: Arcadia. ISBN 978-0-7385-2461-0.
- James M. Elson. Lynchburg, Virginia: the First Two Hundred Years 1786-1986. Lynchburg: Warwick House Publishers, 2004.
- Paul T. Hellmann (2006). "Virginia: Lynchburg". Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-135-94859-3.
- Dorothy Potter; Clifton Potter (2007). Lynchburg: 1757-2007. Images of America. Arcadia. ISBN 978-1-4396-3363-2.
External links
Virginia portal