Historical Highway Markers

Lynchburg Defenses

M-60_2

The earthwork on the hilltop, two hundred yards to the east, was thrown up as a part of the system of defenses for Lynchburg, 1861-65. The city was an important supply base and railroad center.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1929

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