The First Library in Jenkins

The women in Jenkins, Kentucky rolled up their sleeves and formed the Women’s Civic Club in 1936. In 1937, the Women’s Club federated into the National Organization.

How Jenkins, Kentucky Got Its Name

Written by David Sergent How Jenkins, Kentucky got its name was a little bit of a mystery for a couple of years. Not a lot of people spoke about it. This is the story about how the little town came about and the man from whom it got it’s name. The Problem The year is […]

New Bank in the Coal Country Installed in 1911

This article is a re-written version of the half-page article that appeared in the Mountain Eagle in June of 1912.   None of this is a direct quote and it is completely my own words.  Letcher County is Coal Country. At the time, there were very few banking systems in place in the USA. The Jenkins National […]

Mc Roberts Coal Memorial Wall

Mc Roberts Remembers The Miners Written by Joanna Adams Sergent Nestled in a small area, Mc Roberts, Kentucky has a Memorial wall that is often overlooked.   There is a high wall that was made for the coal mine train tracks to keep the mountain from sliding off.  The concrete retaining wall has been transformed into […]

Pound Gap Civil War Memorial

Pound Gap Civil War Memorial by Joanna Adams Sergent Last Summer, while we were visiting back home, David and I went to the top of Pine Mountain on US 23.   The Gap is often referred to by the locals as Pound Gap.   There is so much history and so many hidden golden nuggets to be […]

Leonard Henry Banks

The thing that made Mr. Leonard Henry Banks so outstanding was the character of the man that he was. His life was to reverence God and to love and serve his fellow man .

Jenkins History

Jenkins Ky

The town of Jenkins was so picturesque that the “Daily Independent” a newspaper from Ashland Kentucky wrote about lakeside in an editorial “The clubhouse and lakefront look more like a summer resort than a mining camp.”

Jenkins History

The Consolidation Coal Company had purchased 100,000 acres of land, cut off from the rest of the industrial world

David A Zegeer Coal-Railroad Museum

Dave Zegeer Museum

We would like to thank: The David A Zegeer Coal-Railroad Museum and Eileen Williams Sanders… Without your help none of our work on the History of Jenkins would have been possible. And to Debbie Tuggle for letting us use the brochure she designed for the museum. Situated just off US 23 on the KY VA border is […]

Jenkins History

SVE RR

The story of Richard Broas standing in the Elkhorn creek in Pike County examining a piece of coal is likely to have occurred in Sept 1883.