Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . LIVE STOCK, ^^^^^feofl^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ IFresli Meats, &c, ^W^^^jf | MarM House. Residence, 1922 Grace Street, AMILIES AND HOTELS SUPPPLIED AT SHOUT XOTICE^^ j A. H. FLECKER, IP h: o T o C3-K. ^ IP h: IE i^, 902 M/\IN STREET, LYNCHBURG, M. All work promptly and artistically tinished. Tarticular attciitioii given to copyingand enlarging old pietnres. Also headquarters for Photographic Frames. ITS PEOPLE AND ITS TRADE, 99 the cemetery known as the Methodist Grave Yard became thepubHc cemetery. On the 25th of December, 1849, the City contributed
Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . LIVE STOCK, ^^^^^feofl^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ IFresli Meats, &c, ^W^^^jf | MarM House. Residence, 1922 Grace Street, AMILIES AND HOTELS SUPPPLIED AT SHOUT XOTICE^^ j A. H. FLECKER, IP h: o T o C3-K. ^ IP h: IE i^, 902 M/\IN STREET, LYNCHBURG, M. All work promptly and artistically tinished. Tarticular attciitioii given to copyingand enlarging old pietnres. Also headquarters for Photographic Frames. ITS PEOPLE AND ITS TRADE, 99 the cemetery known as the Methodist Grave Yard became thepubHc cemetery. On the 25th of December, 1849, the City contributed ;^500,oooto the capital stock of the Vir<:^inia & Tennessee Railroad Company,partly by direct subscription and partly by a guaranty of six percent, dividends of the stock to be taken by others. On the i8th of February, 1871, it subscribed ^200,000 to thecapital stock of the Lynchburg & Danville Railroad MR. J. L. THOMPSONS FLJiNlTL RE ESTABLISHMENT. (210 ANn 212 NINTH STREET.) Without these libera! subscriptions, neither of these great worksof internal improvement could at the time have been built. On the breaking out of the war, in 1861, Lynchburg furnishedvery nearly a thousand men as its quota to the Confederate Army,most of whom were equipped at its expense. The number of killedand wounded amongst its citizens was therefore proportionately 100 SKETCH BOOK OF LYNCHBURG, VA. ; heavy. No battle took place during the war that the City was notcalled upon to mourn the loss of its gallant sons. The City, though threatened in June. 1864, by Hunters Army,never ivas in the hands of the Federal forces until after the surrenderat Appomattox Court House, and when it was occupied it was sub-ject to no pillage. Since the war, Lynchburg, by reason of the energy, thrift andfrugality of its citizens, has overcome many of the obstacles whichretarded the prosperity of other Southern towns, and has s
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