Lynchburg Police Foundation to Build Honor Garden at New Police Headquarters

The Lynchburg Police Foundation (LPF) is pleased to announce it has launched a million-dollar campaign. The campaign is to primarily support building a garden in memory and honor of Lynchburg Police officers – past, present and future. The garden will be a permanent landscape area to accompany the Lynchburg Police Department’s new headquarters at the corner of Albert Lankford and Odd Fellows Roads in Lynchburg.

The legacy Honor Garden will comprise memorials, symbolic statuary, a fountain and brick walkways among other features. The LPF’s efforts are in partnership with the Lynchburg Police Department and the City of Lynchburg.

“This garden will be a peaceful and reflective area for members of the community,” said Eugene Wingfield, President of the Lynchburg Police Foundation. “The Foundation wants to make this a community effort where residents can support the build and be recognized on the grounds of the garden.”

To date, the LPF has been working with landscape architects, Proctor Harvey and Cabell Crowther; English Construction; and several other businesses and organizations that have stepped forward to participate in this legacy event. LPF says that the first phase, or soft launch, has been successful - locking in the design of the Honor Garden and identifying the primary contractor. Phase two is equally critical as it focuses on obtaining sponsorships and donations to make the vision of the Honor Garden come to fruition.

“Areas of the Honor Garden can be sponsored and those supporting donors will have their names featured on a Donor Wall,” explained Richard Loving, Chair of the Honor Garden Fundraising Committee. “We will also be selling walkway bricks so that individuals, families, businesses, organizations and civic clubs can have their names featured as a permanent part of the garden.”

Loving also said that the Honor Garden will have two sections – the Memorial Garden will serve as a remembrance of those officers who gave their lives in protecting Lynchburg and the Community Garden, designed as a park-like area where members of the community can relax and reflect.

Wingfield anticipates that the construction of the Honor Garden will cost approximately $350,000. Monies raised that exceed the construction of the Honor Garden will be used to sustain its upkeep as well as to fund current programs the Foundation has in place, including scholarships for children of police officers and professional staff.

“The Lynchburg community has been supportive of the Foundation in the past,” continued Wingfield. “We are confident residents and businesses will continue to rise to the occasion, so this mission will be fulfilled. As a board, our members are proud to lead this effort and look forward to the opening of the police headquarters and the Honor Garden in 2025.”