Statue of George Morgan Jones
- Item sets
- Jones Memorial Library Pamphlet Files
- Where to find this in the Library
- You may access the physical version of this item by going to the Reading Room Reference Desk. Please provide the library staff with either the title and location of this item or the item's catalog call number.
- Identifier
- JML.PAM3340
- Barcode
- JML.PAM3340
- Source Identifier
- 5926
- Title
- Statue of George Morgan Jones
- Description
- Pamphlet file for reference regarding statue of George Morgan Jones. Included are photographs taken by Cranston Williams of the statue at at Hanging Rock Battlefield plus news clippings and correspondence regarding commission of the statue compiled by the Jones Memorial Library. The statue was displayed at 434 Rivermont Avenue in Lynchburg until the 1980s when it was removed. The statue was sold by the library in the early 1990s and relocated by the buyer within Virginia. Two statues were commissioned by Mary Frances Watts Jones in memory of her husband, George Morgan Jones. The second, duplicate statue was installed at Randolph College . That statue was removed following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2020. George Morgan Jones is reported to have opposed secession but served as a private in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The statues were created by sculptor Solon Borglum in the early 1900s at a time when memorials and monuments to the Lost Cause were being installed across the American South; they incorrectly depict George Morgan Jones as an army officer.
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- Text
- Physical Description
- Pages: Letter & photos
- Repository
- George M. Jones Library Association
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights Holder
- George M. Jones Library Association
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