Lynchburg, Virginia

Lynchburg
Nickname : City of Seven Hills
Lynchburg, downtown skyline
seal
Location in Virginia
Basic data
Foundation :	1786
State :	United States
State :	Virginia
Coordinates :	37 ° 24 ′  N , 79 ° 10 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 24 ′  N , 79 ° 10 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Inhabitants : -  Metropolitan Area :	80,212 (as of 2016) 260,232 (as of 2016)
Population density :	627.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	128.9 km 2  (approx. 50 mi 2 ) of which 127.9 km 2  (approx. 49 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	192 m
Postcodes :	24501-24515
Area code :	+1 434
FIPS :	51-47672
GNIS ID :	1479007
Website :	www.lynchburgva.gov
Mayor :	Treney Tweedy (since 2018)

"Allied Arts Building", Lynchburg, built in 1931

Lynchburg is a US city of about 65,000 in the state of Virginia . As one of 43 cities, it bears the title “ Independent City ”. Located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains , it is also called the "City of the Seven Hills" in the USA .

geography

According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a size of 128.9 km² of which 0.74% (1.0 km²) is water surface.

history

Lynchburg was founded in 1757 by John Lynch, who set up a ferry service across the James River there when he was only 17 years old . In 1786, the town received its charter. John Lynch was also responsible for building Lynchburg's first bridge over the river in 1812. When it was completed, the ferry service was discontinued. The city grew into a trading and manufacturing center in the 19th century. The main branches of industry were the tobacco business and the iron and steel industry. With the Kanawha Canal and later four railway lines, important parts of Virginia's infrastructure ran through Lynchburg.

During the Civil War , Lynchburg served as a supply base for Confederate troops and, thanks to the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad, acted as an important shunting yard for units and supplies between the eastern and western theaters of war. In 1864, a Union army under General David Hunter approached within about a mile of the city, but this advance was repulsed by Confederate General Jubal Early on June 18, 1864, who took advantage of the railroad to get reinforcements from nearby Bring Cold Harbor. Near Lynchburg is Appomattox Court House , scene of the Battle of Appomattox and the surrender of the southern states in the Civil War.

Tanker accident of April 30, 2014

On April 30, 2014, shortly before the entrance to Lynchburg - Kemper Street Station, a CSX Transportation tanker coming from Chicago derailed . As a result, four of the fifteen cars went up in flames and exploded. Large parts of the area around the accident site on the James River burned down. Around 300 people from the surrounding houses were forcibly evacuated for security reasons.

Demographics

Population development

year	Residents¹
1980	66,743
1990	66,049
2000	65,269
2010	75,568
2018	82.126

1980–2010: census results; 2018: Update of the US Census Bureau

Data from 2000

According to a survey from the year 2000, Lynchburg had 65,269 inhabitants, 25,477 households and 15,591 families living there. The population density was 510 inhabitants per km² and there were 27,640 residential units with an average distribution of 216 per km². Ethnicities: 66.63% White, 29.70% African American, 1.35% Hispanic, 1.28% Asian, 0.26% Native American, and 0.78% Other.

Of the 25,477 households, 27.8% had children under the age of 18, 41.6% were married couples, 16% were single mothers and 38.8% were singles. The average household size was 2.3 and the average family size was 2.92.

Population pyramid:

• 22.1% under 18
• 15.5% 18 to 24
• 25.3% 25 to 44
• 20.8% 45 to 64
• 16.3% 65 and older

Average income per year:

• Income per capita: $ 18,263
• per household: $ 32,234
• per family: $ 40,844

15.9% of the population lived below the poverty line, 22.4% of those under the age of 18, and 10.7% of those over 65.

education

Lynchburg is home to Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg College, Liberty University , Central Virginia Community College, and the Virginia University of Lynchburg.

Lynchburg is best known in the USA as the place of work of the controversial television preacher Jerry Falwell , who coined the catchphrase of the moral majority in the late 1980s and maintained the private Liberty University in the city .

media

The daily newspaper "The News & Advance" is published by Media General .

traffic

The city has a train station on "Kemper Street" and an airport with connections to Charlotte, North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia.

Attractions

• Monument Terrace
• "Old depot train station" (old railway depot)
• Amazement Square, multidisciplinary children's museum
• Langley Fountain
• Point of Honor
• Poplar Forest : Thomas Jefferson's Vacation Home.
• Fort Early: Named after Confederate General Jubal Anderson Early , who defended the city from Northern troops from here.
• The Old Court House
• Crabtree Falls
• Appomattox Court House : Robert Edward Lee and Ulysses S. Grant signed the armistice here on April 9, 1865, which marked the end of the American Civil War.
• National D-Day Memorial

Town twinning

Lynchburg's twin cities are Rueil-Malmaison , France, and the German city of Glauchau in Saxony.

sons and daughters of the town

• Desmond Doss (1919–2006) medic in World War II
• Steven Bailey (* 1968), singer, Rockcafe Europapark Rust
• Deborah Adair (born 1952), actress
• John W. Daniel (1842–1910), US Senator
• Jerry Falwell (1933–2007), Baptist pastor and television preacher
• Jerry Falwell Jr. (* 1962), son of Jerry Falwell, lawyer
• Samuel Garland (1830–1862), Confederate General in the Civil War
• Robert L. Owen (1856–1947), US Senator
• Nat Reeves (* 1955), jazz musician and university professor
• Lucius Shepard (1943-2014), writer
• Creed Taylor (* 1929), music producer and jazz label founder
• Allen G. Thurman (1813-1895), US Senator
• Skeet Ulrich (* 1970), actor
• Phil Vassar (born 1964), country musician

literature

• Steven Elliot Tripp: Yankee Town, Southern City: Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg. NYU Press, New York 1997, ISBN 9780814782057 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Climatography of the United States No. 20 1971–2000: LYNCHBURG MUNICIPAL AP, VA (PDF) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 24, 2011.  
2. ↑ Clifton Potter, Dorothy Potter: Lynchburg: A City Set on Seven Hills . Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC 2004, ISBN 0-7385-2461-1 , p. 39.
3. ↑ CSX Transportation Oil Train Derails at Lynchburg, Va. ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Oil tanker train derails in Lynchburg, Va., Triggering fire and spill
5. ↑ Train derails and explodes in Lynchburg, Va.
6. ↑ Incredible Images of Train Derailment in Lynchburg, Virginia ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/community_facts.xhtml?src=bkmk American factfinder - Lynchburg city, Virginia, Population, Source: US Census Bureau, Population Division
8. ↑ https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF American factfinder - Annual Estimates of the Resident Population, Source: US Census Bureau, Population Division
9. ↑ US Decennial Census . United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
10. ↑ Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000 . United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
11. ^ Ashley Neville & John Salmon: National Register of Historic Places Inventory / Nomination: Virginia University of Lynchburg . Virginia Department of Historic Resources. September 2010. Archived from the original on August 13, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved on May 1, 2014. and Accompanying six photo ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ VDOE :: Virginia Department of Education Home
13. ↑ Petska, Alicia. (February 3, 2010). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: "GLTC favors Kemper Street site for transfer station" ), The News and Advance ( Memento of the original dated August 7, 2002) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 4, 2010.  

Web links

Commons : Lynchburg, Virginia  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• City website