Digital reproduction of a manuscript entitled "Lynchburg Eighty Years Ago" written by John Meem Payne in 1931. The manuscript describes life in Lynchburg, Virginia in the 1850s.
The memoir is part of Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection…
Finding aid to the John Meem Payne Recollections of Lynchburg held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. The collection includes reminiscences about Lynchburg prior to the U.S. Civil War.