Travel Guide Lexington

The small town of Lexington (population 8,000) is known to host the Virginia Military Institute and Washington and Lee University. It is here that the famous Civil War generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are buried. The first one in the chapel of Washington and Lee University, the second one at Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery. Namely that the name George Wahsington often cited in Lexington refers to George Washington Custis Lee (1832-1913), who was the eldest son of Robert Edward Lee and Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee. His grandfather (who was therefore Robert E. Lee's brother-in-law), George Washington Parke Custis, was the adopted son of George Washington, the first President of the United States.