Help beautify Lynchburg's landscape and community by adopting one or more of the available flower beds today!
The Adopt-A-Flower program is available to local citizens and businesses for a one year sponsorship period. A portion or an entire flower bed may be adopted. All flower beds include summer annuals and spring tulip bulbs. A sponsorship name sign is installed for those who adopt an entire flower bed. Call the City Horticulturist for information and an adoption application at 434-433-4410, Public Works Department Buildings and Grounds Division.
The Old City Cemetery, located at Fourth and Taylor Streets, is a restored 200 year-old cemetery founded in 1806. It is a Virginia Historic Landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the oldest, still in use, public cemetery in the state of Virginia.
Admission to the Cemetery is free, open daily from dawn to dusk, and with the use of plaques, signage, and 
brochures encourages self-guided visits. More than 20,000 people are buried in the cemetery's 26 acres - most before 1925 - including political, religious, social, and cultural leaders, the city's indigent and "strangers";, veterans of every major American war and conflict, and 2,200 Confederate soldiers from 14 states. Three quarters of burials are of African or Native American descent, both free and enslaved. More than one-third are infants and young children.
Three small museums provide audio messages, including the Pest House Medical Museum which recreates 19th-century medical practices and a Civil War quarantine hospital; the Hearse House and Caretakers' Museum which features a late 1800's house-drawn hearse, a Thornhill wagon and early grounds keeping and burial tools; and the Station House Museum a reconstructed 1898 C & O railway station, which features WWI memorabilia and furnishings. A fourth museum of Victorian-era mourning customs can be visited inside the Cemetery Center, open daily from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. and by appointment (closed Sundays through the winter). The Center also includes a small gift shop and public restrooms. many areas of the cemetery and museum are handicapped accessible.
Programs, events and exhibits are offered to the public throughout the year. There are individualized guided tours with costumed interpreters available to children and adults by appointment for a small fee. Please call the Old City Cemetery at 434-847-1465 and or visit the website.
posted on the City's website for citizens to review. In April, City Council holds a public hearing to gather citizens' input on budget issues. City Council deliberates the budget between March and June and adopts the budget in late May or early June. The Adopted Budget is posted on the City's website in July of each year. For additional information, contact the Budget Office at 434-455-3970
"Volunteer! Lynchburg" is a network fo citizens who donate their time and energy in a broad range of community services. From coaching and mentoring to neighborhood cleanup campaigns to companionship and advocacy for th elderly and youth, volunteers are making a difference in Lynchburg.
Volunteer opportunities range from one-time projects and special events to long-term commitments. You can choose from a variety of positions to fit your schedule and interest. Whether you have a new hours a week or a year or a month to contribute, the City can use your help.
To apply for a volunteer opportunity, please download the "Volunteer! Lynchburg" application from www.Lynchburgva.govand select the Communications and marketing Department web-page and then select "Volunteer! Lynchburg."
In addition, the "Volunteer! Lynchburg" application can be picked up and completed in person by visiting the Public Library branches, the City Hall information desk, and/or the Communications and Marketing Department, located at 900 Church Street, ground level, Tenth Street entrance. For more information, please call Communications and Marketing at 434-455-3800.
From its beginning as a frontier town to its heyday as one of the wealthiest cities in America, Lynchburg has appreciated and built fine architecture.
As a town boarding the wilderness, Lynchburg started out simple. When John Lynch began dividing his lots, homeowners had strict rules governing the types of houses they could build. The first Lynchburg houses were 16 feet square and had to be finished within three years.
Most houses, which were build close to the streets, were frame building with wooden shingled roofs. Lynchburgers regularly used stone for basement and foundations.
Settlers avoided chimneys made of wood or wattle and daub - an early building material of interwoven sticks and twigs- because of the fire hazard. Instead they used stone or brick.
The early Lynchburg build solid, one and a half storied brick cottages with high pitched roofs and tiny windows.
Lynchburg presents a history of architecture from the Federal and Greek Revival period on up. Lynchburg's architecture includes fine examples from the Federal style-of the early 1800's through the "anything goes style" of the early 1900's when builders used several styles of buildings.
The houses on Rivermont Avenue illustrate how diverse architecture became in the early 1900's. Architects borrowed features from several different periods and styles - for example putting Spanish tiles of the roof of a colonial home.
Lynchburg has always been prepared to put the energy and resources into having quality architecture and neighborhoods. I think that is one of Lynchburg's unique quality.
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