Editing Lexington, Virginia (section)

==History==
Lexington was named in 1778. It was the first of what would be many American places named after [[Lexington, Massachusetts]], known for being the place at which the [[Shot heard round the world|first shot was fired]] in the [[American Revolutionary War|American Revolution]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbyjamQWtScC&pg=PA16 | title=Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names | publisher=University of Missouri Press | author=Ramsay, Robert L. | year=1952 | pages=16| isbn=9780826205865 }}</ref>

The [[Union Army|Union]] General [[David Hunter]] led a raid on Virginia Military Institute during the [[American Civil War]]. [[Robert E. Lee]] and [[Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson]] are buried in the city. It is the site of the only house Jackson ever owned, now open to the public as a museum.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stonewall Jackson House|url=https://www.vmi.edu/museums-and-archives/stonewall-jackson-house/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415122235/https://vmi.edu/museums-and-archives/stonewall-jackson-house/|archive-date=April 15, 2021|access-date=September 1, 2021|website=[[Virginia Military Institute]]}}</ref> [[Cyrus McCormick]] invented the horse-drawn mechanical reaper at his family's farm in [[Rockbridge County, Virginia|Rockbridge County]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wilson|first=Mitchell|date=February 12, 2021|title=Cyrus McCormick|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cyrus-McCormick|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902041050/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cyrus-McCormick|archive-date=September 2, 2021|access-date=September 1, 2021|website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]}}</ref> and a statue of McCormick is located on the [[Washington and Lee University]] campus.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cyrus McCormick Statue on the grounds of Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, 9/29/02, LC-DIG-pplot-13600-01179 (digital file from LC-HS503-348)|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/pplot.13600/?sp=92|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902041348/https://www.loc.gov/resource/pplot.13600/?sp=92|archive-date=September 2, 2021|access-date=September 1, 2021|website=[[Library of Congress]]}}</ref> McCormick Farm is now owned by [[Virginia Tech]] and is a satellite agricultural research center.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About the Center|url=https://www.arec.vaes.vt.edu/arec/shenandoah-valley/about.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902041616/https://www.arec.vaes.vt.edu/arec/shenandoah-valley/about.html|archive-date=September 2, 2021|access-date=September 1, 2021|website=[[Virginia Tech]]}}</ref>