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The Lynchburg, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Virginia, defined by the Office of Management and Budget as of July 2023. As of the 2020 census,
Downtown Lynchburg skyline
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Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. It borders Ken
Lynchburg metropolitan area
…The Lynchburg, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the U.S. state of Virginia, defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as of July 2023. As of the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 261,593. In 2025 this was…
The story of Pocahontas was simplified and romanticized by later artists and authors, including Smith himself, and promoted by her descendants, some of whom married into elite colonial families.
In 1699, after the statehouse in Jamestown was destroyed by fire, the Colony of Virginia's capitol was moved to Williamsburg, where the College of William & Mary was founded six years earlier.
In 1765, Patrick Henry led a protest of the unpopular Stamp Act in the House of Burgesses, later depicted in this portrait by Peter F. Rothermel.
Eyre Crowe's 1853 portrait, Slaves Waiting for Sale: Richmond, Virginia, which he completed after visiting Richmond's slave markets, where thousands were sold annually