Waynesboro (formerly Flack) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is a principal city of the Staunton-Waynesboro Metropolitan Statistical Area. Waynesboro is located in the Shenandoah Valley and is amid Augusta County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,196.

Located in the British Colony of Virginia, even after the American Revolution and independence and statehood for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the areas west of the Appalachian and Blue Ridge Mountains were known as the frontier. Travel by wagon more than the mountains was considered to be approximately impossible except where birds afforded some gap in the company of them. Until after the Civil War, Jarmans Gap, only some six miles northeast of Waynesboro, was the major crossing of the Blue Ridge Mountains in that area, making Waynesboro a convenient location for a stop for many who sought to travel west.

In the mid-18th century, the Waynesboro Place was commonly referred to as Teasville (or Teesville). Shortly after U.S. Army General Anthony Wayne’s significant victory at Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 during the Northwest Indian War, the area began to be called Waynesborough. Many settlers to the Place at the grow old originated from Pennsylvania. General Wayne’s Famous popularity afterward Pennsylvanians is suspected to have helped contribute to this naming.

As further on as 1798, the current downtown Place was plotted and sold. On January 8, 1801, the town of Waynesborough was officially qualified by the state of Virginia and was incorporated by 1834.