LEFTWICH’S ROW (or “Negro Row”) 701 Harrison Street

Here in the 700 block of Harrison Street once stood a group of brick and wood frame tenement houses known as “Leftwich’s Row” or “Negro Row.” Leftwich’s Row was the largest and best known group of slave dwellings in antebellum Lynchburg. They were built around 1845 and were home to generations of African American families, both enslaved and free, until their demolition between 1900 and 1907. The tenements were built by Col. Augustine Leftwich (1794–1881), a prominent Lynchburg tobacconist who owned more slave dwellings than any other resident of the city in 1860.