Welcome to Lexington, Virginia and Rockbridge County. This may be just what you're looking for to spend a day, a weekend, or a week. There's history, shopping, theater, outdoor life and more in our little corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Take a minute to explore our site, to find even more to discover and explore during your stay.
George C. Marshall Research Library and Museum
Sir Winston Churchill once said of General George Catlett Marshall: "Succeeding generations must not be allowed to forget his achievements and his example." This admonition is well heeded at George C. Marshall Library and Museum, located on the VMI campus…
The Virginia Military Institute Museum
By Mary Price The newly renovated VMI Museum may be the only place in the world where a kangaroo keeps watch over a stuffed horse. Inside VMI�s Jackson Memorial Hall, the kangaroo�in actuality, a suit once worn by cadets portraying the school�s…
Cyrus McCormick Farm
In July of 1831, Cyrus McCormick's invention, the first sucessful mechanical reaper, was demonstrated on one of McCormick's wheat fields. The reaper, which harvested grain five times faster with much less effort than a man with a scythe or sickle. was…
Rockbridge Vineyard
Shakespeare once wrote, “A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou.” Had he come along a few centuries later than he lived, he might have been referring to a jug of Virginia wine. Today, according to the Virginia Wine Marketing Office, the Old Dominion…
