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Official Publication of the
Lynchburg Historical Foundation Spring/Summer 2005
A JOURNAL OF LOCAL HISTORY
PUBLISHER
Peter W. Houck
EDITOR
James M. Elson
EDITOR EMERITUS
Marcus C. Elcan
DESIGNER
Nancy Blackwell Marion The Design Group
EDITORIAL BOARD
Lamar Cecil James M. Elson Peter W. Houck James A. Huston Joyce W. Maddox Marilyn Martin Michael W. Santos William H.Young
Lynch’s Ferry is published twice a year by Warwick House Publishing 720 Court Street Lynchburg,VA 24504 Telephone (434) 846-1200 Subscription orders and notice of change of address should be sent to the above address. Subscription rate is $10.00 per year (2 issues)
or $18.00 for two years (4 issues) paid in advance.
Copyright 2005 by WARWICK HOUSE PUBLISHING All Rights Reserved
Lynch’s Ferry is on sale at the following locations: Barnes & Noble, Basket Case, Bookshop on the Avenue, Givens Books, Inklings Bookshop, Lynchburg Visitors’ Center, Macon Bookshop,Old City Cemetery, Point of Honor,
Tom Jones Drugs (Boonsboro), and Warwick House Publishing.
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The Old Court House Celebrates 2 Its Sesquicentennial
By Thomas G. Ledford
“Deep in My Heart”: Delving into the Soul 12 of Segregation at the Legacy Museum
By Dianne Swann-Wright and
Carolyn Wilkerson Bell
The History of the Child Care Center 18
From the Center Circular, July 1947
Growing Up at 504 Fifth Street 22
By Gene W. Tomlin
The Lynchburg Tobacco Trade and the 34 Nineteenth Century Monacan Economy:
Oral Traditions from the Blue Ridge at Hico—
the Buzzard Rock
By Jay Hansford C. Vest
Departments
Jones Memorial Library:
Lynchburg from the Air in 1924 24
From the Editor 31
A Book of Interest 33
Bill Miller: Do You Know Me? A Daughter Remembers
Follow Up: 40 Alexander’s Ragtime Band; the Death of Harry Alberti
FRONT COVER: The Old Court House, 2005. photo by Nancy Blackwell Marion
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