In the late 1820's, residents of Troup and Harris counties first settled at the crossroads of the LaGrange-Whitesville-Columbus stagecoach route and the West Point to King's Gap Road. The community was named for local landowner Christopher Columbus Jones and his son Monroe. Jones Crossroads once had several flourishing businesses, including a cotton gin, a racehorse track, a tavern, and a U.S. post office called Paulina. Monroe Jones established the rock store in 1903, and members of the Avery family have owned and operated it since the 1920's. Just south is Union Baptist Church, established in 1838, and the site of Union Academy and the Jessie Wisdom Institute.