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Fifth Street: Preserving the Past, Venturing Into the Future
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase” —Martin Luther King, Jr. The first of those to travel what is now Fifth Street in Lynchburg were pioneers, heading West. The Kentucky Hotel and Western Hotel provided lodging as early as the 1700s for those journeying to West Virginia and Kentucky—frontier lands. A century later, other pioneers would populate Fifth Street — dentists, funeral home directors, pharmacists and barbers, forging new lives and businesses. These African Americans formed what would become Lynchburg’s black business district from the turn of the 20th century until the 1960s. [...]
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