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Welcome to Jennings ...So far, we found very little information about Jennings. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Jennings to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Jennings, please Contact Us. Jennings would have been located within present day Wilson County<2>. The location of Jennings has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Jennings, you might consider that their post office opened in 1886. While the community is gone, the present day location for Jennings is 570 feet [174 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Jennings was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time If Jennings still existed, it would have been in the (615) area code. Communities Also Named Jennings ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 21 communities that are also named Jennings - they are located in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana (2), Maryland (2), Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Jennings. Communities near Jennings ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Jennings.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Jennings. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Jennings. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Jennings. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Jennings. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Jennings. See our Newspapers Page for Jennings. Adding Jennings to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Jennings in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Jennings was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Jennings in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Jennings. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Wilson County: www.wilsoncountytn.com/ The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/ Footnotes ...
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