Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through Charleston Gazette-Mail's website.
Charleston City Council recently voted to accept the land donation from Callen Jones-McJunkin on behalf of her family’s trust to create The Herbert and Gloria Jones Woodlands along the south side of Loudon Heights Road. The family said they were paying it forward by donating 65 acres of land to the city of Charleston to establish a new recreation area connected to Kanawha State Forest.
The land donation comes from McJunkin and her family’s trust, The Herbert E. Jones Jr. Family Share Trust. McJunkin said her family was thrilled to be able to donate the land to the city. “I’m a third-generation Charlestonian, and we’re fifth-generation West Virginians,” McJunkin said in an article by the Charleston Gazette-Mail. “I love to hike and bike and walk and take the kids out trail walking, and it’s really nice to have a space where there are no cars.” The city will develop the land to have recreational trails and other leisure activities, according to a news release from the city.
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