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History · Jennings

Jennings’ post office opened in 1902, and 100% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1899 on.

1902first post office
0on the National Register
100%homes built before 1940
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How Jennings began

When was Jennings founded?

1902

The Jennings post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 99124 years
Founding year: the first Jennings post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Jennings’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Jennings are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18996 editions of the USGS map, 1899 to 1994. Watch Jennings change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Jennings’s history is told.

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On the map

Jennings on the map, 1899 to 1994

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Jennings. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Jennings on the 1899 USGS mapJennings on the 1904 USGS mapJennings on the 1946 USGS mapJennings on the 1974 USGS mapJennings on the 1981 USGS mapJennings on the 1994 USGS map1899Grantsville sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Jennings.

The story

How Jennings came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Jennings.

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The founding of Jennings began in 1899 when prosperous entrepreneurs, brothers Cortez H. Jennings and B. Worth Jennings from Towanda, Pennsylvania, launched their project to harvest the old growth forest between Grantsville and Bittinger in Garrett County, Maryland. The brothers purchased a few dozen parcels of land. They referred to these lands collectively as Maynadier Lands and Cunningham Lands, which altogether encompassed 10 square miles (26 square km).

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Jennings, 1899 to 1963

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1899On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 20th century
  4. 1902Post officeThe Jennings post office opens
  5. 1963Post officeThe Jennings post office closes
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Jennings had its own post office from 1902 to 1963.

Jennings
1902–1963
19001960today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Jennings’ history

What year was Jennings founded?

The Jennings post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.