Friday, February 3, 2012

Tobacco warehouse turned Civil War hospital last one standing



(Lynchburg News and Advance) This week’s collapse of a Civil War-era tobacco warehouse on Dunbar Drive has thrust a spotlight on another Lynchburg building — which now stands as the city’s sole surviving warehouse-turned-war-hospital.
“It’s sad,” said Crystal Morris, of family-owned Morris Construction, which occupies what historians refer to as the “Knight Building.” “This is the last one.”
During the Civil War, dozens of Lynchburg buildings were converted into hospitals to care for the wounded pouring in from battlefields. Continued

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