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Lexington, city, seat (1777) of Rockbridge county (though administratively independent of it), west-central Virginia, U.S. It lies in the Shenandoah Valley, on the Maury River, 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Lynchburg. The area was inhabited by the Cherokee and Monacan peoples before the 1730s, when European settlement began. Lexington was established by the Virginia Assembly in 1777 as the county seat and named for the Battles of Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775) that marked the beginning of the American Revolution. The town was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1796. During the American Civil War, it was bombarded ...(100 of 251 words)

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