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Jones Memorial Library

Lynchburg, Italy

Jones Memorial Library

The Jones Memorial Library is a specialized genealogy and history research library located at 2311 Memorial Avenue in Lynchburg, Virginia. The original historic library building is located at 434 Rivermont Avenue in Lynchburg, Virginia. It was designed by the local architectural firm of Frye & Chest

erman and was erected in 1906–07 in the Neoclassical style. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The library was founded by Mary Frances Watts Jones in memory of her husband George Morgan Jones; it opened in June 1908 as the second oldest public library in Virginia. The library had been the dream of George Morgan Jones, philanthropist and industrialist of Lynchburg, but he died before it could be built. As a memorial to her husband, Mary Frances Watts Jones financed the construction and equipping of the library. The deed to establish the library was the direct result of a settlement disputing the terms of George Jones' will, after a lengthy trial ended with a hung jury. In exchange for legal recognition of the couple's adopted daughter, Mary Watts Jones entered into agreement to J. Gordon Payne, Walker Pettyjohn, O. B. Barker. and W. B. Hatcher to...

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