What is the "mountain property"?  This term has been used loosely to describe the main campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA.  Some people refer to it as the northernmost side of the campus, which includes the current familiar buildings like DeMoss Hall, the Vines Center, and dorm groups such as the Hill, the Circle, and most new, the Residential Commons. Others use it to refer to the southernmost side of the campus which includes all of the East Campus Housing, Doc's Diner, and Liberty Mountain Snowflex.  This is the part of campus that actually on a mountain; originally named Candler's Mountain, it is now called Liberty Mountain (although it still retains its original name as well).  Those who are familiar with the school's history, have been affiliated with the school in some way since its inception, or are locals of the surrounding Lynchburg and Campbell Co. areas, may construe the "mountain property" as many different things, while others who know nothing of the school's history - quite frankly, most of its current and former students - may constue it to be many different things as well.  

In our own research, we had a difficult time defining what exactly constituted the mountain property according to its original meaning.  

Throughout the Property History, we will explain how we have defined the mountain property through information about the individual pieces of property that make it up, as well as through visual means like maps and photographs.

What we are defining as the mountain property is that first parcel of land purchased for Lynchburg Baptist College, north of (but not including) Candler's mountain, which includes all of the Montview Farm property, and the subsequent additions to it.  What we are defining as the main campus property is the mountain property plus three additional parcels added onto the southwest end and one large parcel added onto the northeast end.  We have defined this area as the University's main campus because it contains all of the main academic, athletic, and dormitory buildings.  

(East Campus is also considered to be a part of main campus, but for the purposes of this project and for simplicity's sake, we chose to define main campus as the land directly surrounding the original Montview property purchase.  Also, the areas we will discuss are in chronological order in which they were added to Liberty's property.  East Campus is the most recent development [early 2000s] and has a complicated property history of its own.)