John jones

The John W. Jones Museum in Elmira now has a statue of Jones, a formerly enslaved person who played a part in the Underground Railroad. WSKG’s Natalie Abruzzo spoke with Talima Aaron, the president of the board of trustees for the museum about Jones, the museum and his commissioned statue.

“I want it to be part of the DNA of the town. I want it, I want you to feel it like I feel it.”

Between the summers of 1864 and 1865, nearly 3,000 Confederate prisoners died at the Civil War prison camp in Elmira, New York. The monumental task of…