Where did Lynchburg Virginia get its name?

Answer 1

Thomas Roundtree, who lived in the log house on the lot where Dr. E. Y. Salmon now resides, was the original proprietor of the lands on which Lynchburg is located. He laid out the town about the year 1818, and, as the famous beech tree, used as a lynching post, where early offenders were punished, stood over the spring near his house, he very appropriately named the town Lynchburg.

Answer 2

From John Lynch, the founder of the ferry site on the James River that became the town in 1786.