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 Picture Courtesy of Garry Thompson
 Picture Courtesy of Garry Thompson
Just north stand the ruins of Liberty Hall Academy’s stone academic building, which was constructed in 1793. Founded in 1749 near Greenville as Augusta Academy the school was reestablished in 1776 at Timber Ridge and patriotically named Liberty Hall Academy. It moved here to Mulberry Hill in 1782, when the Virginia General Assembly chartered it as a college. In 1796, in honor of President George Washington’s endowment gift of James River (canal) Co. stock, it was renamed Washington Academy. Fire gutted the building in 1803, prompting the college to move to its present location in Lexington, where it is now known as Washington and Lee University.
Department of Historic Resources 1998
Nelson St. (US 60 westbound) at entrance to Washington and Lee law school. Lexington City Virginia
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