Lively, Virginia

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Virginia, United States}}

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|timezone = Eastern (EST)

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|postal_code = 22507{{cite web|url=https://www.zipdatamaps.com/22507|title=Lively ZIP Code|publisher=zipdatamaps.com|year=2022|access-date=November 30, 2022}}

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Lively is an unincorporated community in Lancaster County in the U. S. state of Virginia. Mary Ball Washington, mother of George Washington, was born in Lively.{{gnis|1495853}}

The origin of the name "Lively" is obscure.{{cite book|last1=Moyer |first1=Armond |last2=Moyer |first2=Winifred |title=The origins of unusual place-names |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058322223;view=1up;seq=146 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214100704/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058322223;view=1up;seq=146 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2018-02-14 |year=1958 |publisher=Keystone Pub. Associates |pages=141–142 }} Fox Hill Plantation and St. Mary's, Whitechapel are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.{{NRISref|version=2009a}}

State delegate Robert O. Norris, Jr. was born in Lively.