Yesterday historic Lexington welcomed Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Their homes, colleges, churches and final resting places are in this 19th-century college town.

In 1774 Thomas Jefferson purchased Natural Bridge (One of the seven natural wonders of the world) from King George III. As a young man George Washington surveyed the Bridge and carved his initials on it. Rockbridge County was named for the natural bridge.

Statesman Sam Houston was born near Lexington in Rockbridge County. In the northern end of the county, Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanized reaper that revolutionized American agriculture production.

General George C. Marshall (Nobel Peace Prize winner for the Marshall Plan after World War II) was a 1901 graduate of Virginia Military Institute. A museum honoring him is on the VMI post.

Lexington, the county seat, is located in the Shenandoah Valley in west central Virginia. We are approximately 45 miles north of Roanoke, 140 miles west of Richmond, and 190 miles southwest of Washington D.C. and is home to many state and national historic landmarks and today serves as the retail, service, governmental, and educational enter for the area. It has served as home to the renowned military Strategists Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and Robert E. Lee, along with inventor Cyrus McCormick and pioneer Sam Houston.