1910 RPPC Main Street Jenningston WV Lopez PA

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1910 RPPC Main Street Jenningston WV Lopez PA Vintage Real Photo Postcard showing a view of the main street in what is now a Ghost Lumbering Town. Lettered in image: MAIN STREET JENNINGSTON, W.Va. The name Jennings ties in with the old lumbering days in Laquin, PA as they operated nearby in Sullivan County at about the same time. The 1900 census for Pennsylvania, Sullivan County, Colley Township, Lopez Precinct listed C.H. Jennings as being 44 years old and a Manufacturer. The same census lists B.S. Jennings as 38 years old and a Lumber Merchant (B.S. was actually B. Worth). The son of B. Worth was W. Worth who returned to Towanda, PA and created the locally well known Jenningshurst Farms. is more history from Keith Allen: The story of Jenningston begins in a small logging town in Pennsylvania. Bishop Worth and Cortez H. Jennings moved their sawmill to Lopez, Pa in 1887. They expanded the size of the mill, built a large store, and several houses t The town of Lopez began to boom. In 1897, they purchased a clothes pin factory and sawmill from Trexler and Turrell and operated their businesses till 1905. Knowing that t were only a few years of life left in their mill, they started expanding their interest to Maryland and West Virginia. On November 29, 1899, William Rosendorf, president of the Middle Mountain Boom and Lumber Company, signed the deed to his property over to C.H. and B.W. Jennings for $11,000. This included a saw mill, dam, machinery, and a railroad running from the Dry Fork Railroad to the mill. On December 19, 1899, a deed was signed by the Jennings brothers purchasing the timber rights to 2,160 acre on the east side of Laurel Fork. This was followed by 73 acres on the west side. The sell of the Middle Mountain Boom and Lumber and 20,000 acres of Land was officially report on December 29 also. In 1900, the brothers purchased an additional 30,000 acres. The brothers also purchased 11,726 acres in Randolph County and 1221 acres in Pocahontas County for $9,772. They sold 620 acres to the Pocahontas Lumber Company for $27,405. They continued to purchase land in 1902, 1903, and 1904. With the closing of their mill in 1905, the Jennings brothers were ready to begin work in West Virginia. The first step was to charter a railroad. The charter was issued on February 27, 1905 for the Randolph and Pocahontas Railroad. The charter stated the railroad would run from Stover to Seneca road. The shareholders were Cortez H. and B. Worth Jennings, William L. Jennings, Frank G. Rice (would become postmaster of Jenningston) and Nathan A. Steele. By middle of April, work had begun on the new town of Jenningston, at a location west of the Dry Fork below the mouth of the Laurel Fork. By the end of August, the company store was ready to open. A large house was being built for the company superintendent. B. Worth and his wife Ella would occupy it. On August 25, 35 men and a team of horses arrived from Pennsylvania. In November the post office was moved from Stover to Jenningston. B.W. Jennings was the first postmaster but was succeeded by Frank Rice. In March 1906, Jenningston got phone service. The mill contained a double band saw and gang saws. It is not known when the first lumber shipped from t but by 1907 it produced a 125,000 feet a day. John Curry opened a mill up from the mouth of the Laurel Fork in 1906 and named it Currytown. It was a single band mill and produced 50,000 feet a day. On July 1 1907, John Curry sold his business to Allen A. Perley for $225,000. The new company, Perley and Crockett Lumber Company was chartered on August 23. A.P. was president, W.H. Crockett vice president, and Fred Perley (A.P. ‘s son) secretary and treasurer. They too moved quickly to assure a supply of logs. On October 20, 1906, B.W. Jennings died of a self-inflicted gunshot. No reason was given for the suicide. Worth’s only son W.W. Jennings took over for his father. His brother’s death did affect Cortez and he did try to sell the company at this time. E.V. Babcock visited t... read more

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