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Lexington (City and county-seat)

a city and_county-seat of Rockridge co., Va.; on James river, and the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroads; 48 miles W. of Lynchburg. It is the seat of Virginia Military school; is engaged in agriculture and has deposits of sulphur ore, electric light plant, waterworks supplied by mountain streams, and Naplied from the river, National and sav- Washington and Lee University and the ings banks, daily, weekly and monthly periodicals. Lewiston was founded in 1770; incorporated in 1795, and chartered as a city in 1861, but the city ernment was not organized till 1863.

Pop. (1910) 26,247; (1920) 31,791. the county