The Lancaster Virginia Historical Society (LVHS) on Saturday, October 12, dedicated the Dunton Library for Genealogy and History in honor of Ammon G. Dunton Jr. (left) for his longtime support of community history preservation and education efforts and his many contributions to LVHS as a board member, past president and chairman of the library capital campaign. The new facility on the LVHS campus in Lancaster provides improved space for library users and for the society’s collection of more than 8,000 books, research files, county record indexes, family charts, oral histories and other reference materials, reported executive director Karen Hart (right). Within the facility, the Genealogy Wing was dedicated in memory of Elizabeth Combs Peirce and the History Wing was dedicated in memory of Marion and Lorena Dobyns Conner and Edward Longworth and Mary Latane Tadlock, thanks to generous gifts from their families