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    Bureau of Economic Analysis. Lexington is within the Shenandoah Valley about 57 miles (92 km) east of the West Virginia border and is about 50 miles (80 km)...
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  • East Lexington is a census-designated place in Rockbridge County, Virginia. The population at the 2010 Census was 1,463. Virginia Trend Report 2: State...
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    South Elkhorn Christian Church in Lexington. On May 6, 1782, the town of Lexington was chartered by an act of the Virginia General Assembly. Around 1790,...
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    at Bower's Hill in Chesapeake, Virginia. I-64 connects Greater St. Louis, the Louisville metropolitan area, the Lexington–Fayette metropolitan area, the...
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    U.S. Route 60 (US 60) in the Commonwealth of Virginia runs 303 miles (488 km) west to east through the central part of the state, generally close to and...
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    edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,650. Its county seat is the city of Lexington. Rockbridge County completely...
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    highway continues as West Virginia Route 39 (WV 39), east to U.S. Route 11 (US 11) in East Lexington. SR 39 connects Lexington with several communities...
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    Sycamores, and Telford, is a historic home located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1790, and is a three-story...
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    had been used to transport materials from the Atlantic ports of Virginia to Lexington since the 18th century, but by the founding of the city had been...
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    The Battles of Lexington and Concord was the first major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in an American victory and outpouring...
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    The Virginia Military Institute (VMI) is a public senior military college in Lexington, Virginia. It was founded in 1839 as America's first state military...
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    a major east–west United States highway, traveling 2,655 miles (4,273 km) from southwestern Arizona to the Atlantic Ocean coast in Virginia. The highway's...
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    cities of Franklin, Lexington, Roanoke, and Falls Church voted for the Republican candidate, and the last election when Virginia voted to the right of...
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    Street) southwest of downtown Lexington. The road originally went through Alleghany County, starting at what is now Virginia State Route 269 (previously...
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  • Washington and Lee University (category Buildings and structures in Lexington, Virginia)
    (Washington and Lee or W&L) is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Virginia, United States. Established in 1749 as Augusta Academy, it is among...
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  • the North Carolina state line through Danville, Lynchburg, and Lexington to West Virginia. In 1926, this was designated as U.S. Route 170 from North Carolina...
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    (2017). Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb: Of Our Own Making. Lexington Books. pp. 154–56. ISBN 978-1-4985-2977-8. Altman, Micah;...
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    Red Hen restaurant controversy (category Lexington, Virginia)
    On June 22, 2018, a co-owner of The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders, then the White House press secretary, to...
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    Lexington is the most populous town in and the county seat of Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. It is a suburb of the state capital, Columbia...
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    Roanoke, Lexington, Staunton, Harrisonburg, Strasburg, and Winchester. As one of the original U.S. Highways, it was first designated through Virginia in 1926...
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    and Folklore in West Virginia. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. Otis K. Rice, The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia Beginnings, 1730–1830...
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    Tennessee, and leaves Virginia into Berkeley County, West Virginia. The route passes through the cities of Bristol, Roanoke, Salem, Lexington, Staunton, and...
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    Fayette County, Kentucky (category Lexington–Fayette metropolitan area)
    with Lexington. Fayette County is part of the Lexington-Fayette, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area. Fayette County—originally Fayette County, Virginia—was...
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    community is Lexington. The county was chartered in 1785 and was named in commemoration of Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the Battle of Lexington in the...
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    Alabama; its northern terminus is an interchange with I-95 in Petersburg, Virginia, near Richmond. It is nominally north–south as it carries an odd number...
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    Stonewall Jackson House (category Museums in Lexington, Virginia)
    The Stonewall Jackson House, located at 8 East Washington Street in the Historic District of Lexington, Virginia, was the residence of Confederate general...
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    Mary Anna Custis Lee (category People from Lexington, Virginia)
    the Lees lived in Powhatan County for a short time before moving to Lexington. Robert E. Lee became president of the Washington College, later renamed...
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    population was 20,252. Its county seat is Paris. Bourbon County is part of the Lexington-Fayette, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is one of Kentucky's nine...
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  • 2024 VMI Keydets football team (category 2024 in sports in Virginia)
    second-year head coach Danny Rocco and played at Alumni Memorial Field in Lexington, Virginia. Game One – VMI Keydets (0–0) at No. 15 William & Mary Tribe (0–0)...
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    farmer. Edmund F. Noel, an attorney in Lexington, was a son of planters Leland and Margaret Noel, from Virginia and North Carolina, respectively. His father...
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