About the Legacy Museum

..... Dedicated in June 2000, Lynchburg's Legacy Museum provides information, educational exhibits, lectures and events that remember, recognize, and documents the history and culture of African Americans and their decendants in the surrounding region.

..... As part of their mission, the museum and its' staff collect, restore, and preserve many important historical documents, artifacts, oral histories, and memorabilia relating to the history, lives, and contributions of the African American Community in and around the Lynchburg area.

1920 Ivy Hill school picture from Amherst County
Donated by Ted Trevey to the Legacy Museum

Martha, an enslaved woman who worked, lived, and died at Sweet Briar. Her gravestone was found and reclaimed on SBC's campus. See our African-American Heritage site for more information.

PACE Class: HIST 336
Civil War, Reconstruction, & the New South

SBC contact: Kate Chavigny
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PACE Experience:

....Students will research and craft works that will be part of an exhibit for the Legacy Museum. You will attend collecting meetings at the Legacy Museum working with museum staff directly and utilize/collect primary and secondary sources from historic Lynchburg sites (e.g. Old City Cemetery, the Legacy Museum collection, the Lynchburg City Records Office).

.....In addition, you will work with one of two bodies of evidence and write a short paper based upon the information they yield.  The first source is the Duiguid records (collected at the Old City Cemetary) which offers a snapshot of white and black society between the end of the Civil War through World War II and beyond. The second is the Norfolk Journal and Guide, an African American newspaper that covered the Lynchburg African American community. These records can be analyzed for information about social and civic organizations in our region at the time.