He has been awarded two honorary degrees: In 1997 from Temple Baptist College in Cincinnati, Ohio and in 2004 from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. On 28 May 2007 the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky, a project which cost $ 27 million.

* Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman ’ s College, Lynchburg, Virginia

* Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA

* Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia

* Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, formerly Randolph-Macon Woman's College ( Lynchburg, Virginia )

Lynchburg is best known as the location of the Jack Daniel's distillery, whose famous whiskey is marketed world-wide as the product of a city with only one traffic light.

He spent one season in the minors, in which he led the Class-A Carolina League in wins, strikeouts and ERA while playing for the Lynchburg Mets.

Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, Anderson was one of 12 children of James and Alberta Anderson.

Early arrived in Lynchburg at one o ' clock on June 17, having been sent by General Robert E. Lee.

Robert E. Lee determined to make one last attempt to escape the closing Union pincers and reach his supplies at Lynchburg.

On weekends, there is one train daily to Lynchburg, Virginia.

The President's new policies include relocating the capital from Washington, D. C. to his hometown of Lynchburg, Virginia, and declaring that anyone not conforming to the new " Moral America " laws he creates ( banning such things as tobacco, alcoholic beverages, red meat, firearms, profanity, non-Christian religions, atheism and non-marital sex ) will be deported to Los Angeles Island or can choose death by electrocution as an alternative.

He was treated in Lynchburg, Virginia, and recuperated in Augusta, Georgia, with his niece, Emma Eve Longstreet Sibley, the daughter of his brother Gilbert.

In the 1850s, Big Lick became a stop on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad ( V & T ) which linked Lynchburg with Bristol on the Virginia-Tennessee border.

As travel technology developed in the mid-19th century, Petersburg became established as a railroad center, with lines completed to Richmond to the north, Farmville and Lynchburg to the west, and Weldon, North Carolina to the south.

Lynchburg has a four-season humid subtropical climate ( Köppen Cfa ), with cool winters and hot, humid summers.

Of Virginia's larger metro areas, Forbes Magazine ranked Lynchburg the 5th best place in Virginia for business in 2006, with Virginia being the best state in the country for business.

The Lynchburg News & Advance reports that while more people are working than ever in greater Lynchburg, wages since 1990 have not kept up with inflation.

It ranks now next to Richmond in importance ..." Lynchburg became a center of commerce and manufacture in the 19th century, and by the 1850s, Lynchburg ( along with New Bedford, Mass.

About this time, Lynchburg was also the preferred site for the Norfolk & Western junction with the Shenandoah Valley Railroad.

Since the 1940s, maps of the federal interstate highway system depicted that highway taking a northern route, with no interstate highway running through Lynchburg, but the federal government assured Virginia that the highway's route would be decided by the state.

This left Lynchburg as the only city with a population in excess of 50, 000 ( at the time ) not served by an interstate.

Amtrak's Crescent and Northeast Regional trains connect Lynchburg with the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans.

Railfans who wish to visit the NS Lynchburg yard are advised to inquire with an NS official.

The possibility also exists that Violet Bank is, like Point of Honor in Lynchburg, the product of a country builder who was familiar with Latrobe ’ s work in Richmond, and used that as a base from which to start, through the house could be right out of a Latrobe sketchbook with its combination of octagonal bays, recessed portico and Adam-style ceiling moulding.

It forms a consolidated city-county government with its county seat of Lynchburg.

Virginia Beach, Virginia, while not usually considered a buckle of the Bible Belt, is considered by many to be, along with Lynchburg, the eastern border.

The league office moved its physical location from Salem, Virginia, to Forest, Virginia, just outside of centrally located Lynchburg, and contracted with Jim Ward Design for its new marks.

Phase 2 ( the former Cattle Annie's, but significantly remodeling in 2010 ) is a popular, large club venue in Lynchburg with a reputation for attracting prominent performers.

Falwell retained his affiliation with the Baptist Bible Fellowship, and the church he founded in 1956, Thomas Road Baptist Church of Lynchburg, Virginia, is listed in the current BBFI directory.

In October 2009 Amtrak extended the Northeast Regional with daily service from Alexandria, VA, via Burke, Manassas, Culpeper, and Charlottesville, to Lynchburg with support from the Department of Rail & Public Transportation, Commonwealth of Virginia.

Such early communities in Virginia included what we now know as Alexandria on the Potomac River, Fredericksburg on the Rappahannock River, Richmond and Lynchburg on the James River and Petersburg on the Appomattox River.

Sloan studied chess from an early age and left Lynchburg in 1962 to study at University of California, Berkeley ; he majored in mathematics and criminology and hosted parties for the Sexual Freedom League before dropping out in 1967.

However, expansion was delayed until the early 1980s while a proposed new regional airport serving Roanoke, Lynchburg and Martinsville, to be built in Bedford County, was evaluated.

" Lynchburg was the only major city in Virginia that did not fall to the Union in the American Civil War.

During the American Civil War, Lynchburg, which served as a Confederate supply base, was approached within by the Union forces of General David Hunter as he drove south from the Shenandoah Valley.

At the time of the Civil War, the present community of Appomattox was the site of a railroad depot on the line between Petersburg and Lynchburg.

The son of Judge Robert Latane Montague, Andrew Jackson Montague was born in 1862 in Campbell County near Lynchburg, Virginia, his family having fled there to escape the American Civil War.

The Battle of Lynchburg was fought on June 17 – 18, 1864, two miles outside Lynchburg, Virginia, as part of the American Civil War.

During the Civil War, Lynchburg was used as a supply and hospital center.

World War I Memorial in downtown Lynchburg

Rodes is buried beside his brother, Virginius Hudson Rodes, who had been his adjutant throughout the War, in Presbyterian Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia.