Parnell Memorial Library Foundation

In September 2004, the bid for the project was let to Jones-Williams Construction Company. The Ground Breaking Ceremony for the new facility was held on Monday, November 1, 2004, at 1 p.m. with a crowd of enthusiastic donors and supporters on hand. The Montevallo High School Marching Troubadours played the National Anthem while a military color guard presented the colors.

Jane Clayton, Chair of the Montevallo Library Board, presided. Others on the platform were Sharon Anderson, Mayor of Montevallo; Johnny McClain, member of the Board of Parnell Memorial Library Foundation; Bo Grisham, the Parnell family representative on the Foundation Board; and Libbie Rodgers, President of the Foundation Board.

Representatives of Jones-Williams Construction Company were recognized, as were Julee Potter and Don Cosper of Davis Architects, Inc. Special guests were members of the Parnell Family, including Mary Sue Parnell, her daughter Kay Parnell Grisham and son "Foots" Parnell, III, and her grandchildren David and Virginia Grisham.

Pictures of the ceremony, of the Parnell family and friends , and of the people who gathered to celebrate the occasion are now on the web.

Pictures of the construction site also give a sense of the construction process.

Pictures from June, July, and early August 2005
Pictures from late August 2005
Pictures from September 2005
Pictures from Early October 2005
Pictures from Mid and Late October 2005
Pictures from Early November 2005
Pictures from Late November and Early December 2005
Pictures from January and February 2006
Pictures from March 2006
Pictures from August 2006

Photographs of the Ceremony

Photographs of the Parnell Family and Friends

Photographs of People at the Ceremony

Photographs of Construction

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