Lexington, Virginia
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Lexington is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 7,320. It is the county seat of Rockbridge County, although the two are separate
Aerial view of downtown in 2026
View of the First Baptist Church along Main Street in the Lexington Historic District
Lexington High School, designed by architect Charles M. Robinson and constructed in 1908, was typical of the modern public schools that cities built during the Progressive Era.
University Chapel
Virginia Military Institute
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The Virginia Military Institute is a public senior military college in Lexington, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1839 as America's first state-sponsored and -supported military college and
Lexington, Virginia
…the West Virginia border and is about 50 miles (80 km) north of Roanoke, Virginia. First settled in 1778, Lexington is best known as the home of the Virginia Military Institute and Washington and Lee University. Lexington was named in 1778. It was the second of what would be many American places named after Lexington…
VMI professor, Stonewall Jackson
Engraving of VMI, c. 1863
Virginia Mourning Her Dead
George C. Marshall statue