"Best Places for Businesses and Careers:" Why Lynchburg is Making the Cut Nationally
More than 150 years ago, Stephen Wilcox patented the water boiler. In 1867, Wilcox and George Babcock founded Babcock, Wilcox, and Company to manufacture that same water boiler. Flash ahead to 2010 and B&W is now on the cutting edge of nuclear technology. What does that water boiler have to do with today? Whether they knew it or not, those two pre-Civil War entrepreneurs laid a foundation in Lynchburg for the technology industry. Today, technology is playing a major role in transforming a region, once based largely on manufacturing, into a home for a diverse and ever-expanding economy that was recently recognized by Forbes ...

