LYNCH'BURG. A city in Campbell County, Va., 124 miles wet by south of Riel n nod and 172 miles from Washington. D. c.; on the •lames River, and on the Chesapeake and c Olio, the Nor folk and Western, and the Southern railroads (Map: Virginia, 11•: 4). The situation of the city is remarkably picturesque. A steep acclivity rises from the banks of the river, breaking into numerous hills, whose terraced walls. ornamented with trees and skirting handsome dwellings, pre sent an attractive appearance. In the back ground, at a distance of twenty miles but proud. nently in view•, rise the Blue Ridge and the Peaks of Otter. There are about ninety acres in public parks. The city is the seat of the Randolph flacon Woman's College, and has the Miller Female Orphan Asylum and two well-equipped hospitals. Lynchburg is the centre of enormous tobacco manufactures. and, on ac count of its excellent railroad facilities, controls important jobbing and shipping interests. Vast fields of coal and iron ore are in the immediate neighborhood. also quarries of granite. Besides the tobacco factories, there are iron and brass foundries, dour mills. cotton mills. shoe factories.
pipe works, dye works, and manufactories of bark extract. hardware. plows. wagons, and textiles The city possesses water power esthuated at 21100 horse power. with 50o0 more as yet undeveloped. The government. under a revised charter of 1899, is vested in a mayor. elected every two years, and a unicameral council in which rests appoint meats to the majority if administrative offices. The clerk of courts. commissioner of revenue. and city treasurer are, however, elected by the people. Lynchburg OW/IS and operates the water works. Population, in I890, 19.709; in 1900. 18,891.
Founded in 1786 by John Lynch, Lynchburg was first incorporated in IS23. During the Civil War it was used by the Confederates as a base of supplies. and on .Tune 18. IS64. the Federal General limiter made an unsuccessful attempt to capture it. Consult ('shell, Sketches a ad Pee oiler( ions of Lynchburg I bliehmond. Va., 1S5S).