Virginia Independent Cities - With Hints

Virginia contains 38 out of the 41 independent cities in the United States. Can you name them all?

Arranged in order of greatest to least population.

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Home to many retirees; popular vacation destination	Virginia Beach
Contains part of the Great Dismal Swamp	Chesapeake
Home to the largest naval base in the world	Norfolk
The state capital	Richmond
Named for an English captain	Newport News
Shares its name with an ancient Macedonian conqueror	Alexandria
Home to the oldest Anglican parish in the country	Hampton
Planter's Peanuts was established here in 1912	Suffolk
Largest city in Virginia west of #4	Roanoke
Named after an English "port" city	Portsmouth
Home to Liberty University	Lynchburg
Home to James Madison University	Harrisonburg
Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe both lived here	Charlottesville
Site and namesake of the first major Civil War battle	Manassas
The last capital of the Confederate States of America	Danville
Site of a famous Civil War siege	Petersburg
Named after King George III's father	Fredericksburg
Namesake of a famous firearms manufacturer	Winchester
Birthplace of President Woodrow Wilson	Staunton
John McAfee was raised here	Salem
Shares its name with the county surrounding it	Fairfax
Site of an odious paper mill; also the site of Ulysses Grant's headquarters during the campaign for #16	Hopewell
Renamed in 1794 after a famous Revolutionary War General	Waynesboro
Named after a Revolutionary War action in which the Marquis de Lafayette took part	Colonial Heights
Called "The Birthplace of Country Music"	Bristol
Home to a university of the same name	Radford
Similar to #14, but with an added word	Manassas Park
Second colonial capital of Virginia	Williamsburg
Named after a historic Episcopal church	Falls Church
Named after a general in the Revolutionary War	Martinsville
Its name is an Algonquin term that means "Great Marsh"	Poquoson
Named for the inventor of the lightning rod	Franklin
Named for the first "battle" of the American Revolution	Lexington
Named after a shrub with heart-shaped leaves	Galax
"Beautiful view" in Spanish	Buena Vista
Namesake of a large city on the Ohio River in Kentucky	Covington
Named after a city in Kansas	Emporia
Located on the Wilderness Trail blazed by Daniel Boone	Norton

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