JENKINJONES, WV INDEX

Jenkinjones is an unincorporated community and coal town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. It lies on the western flanks of Stone Ridge near the border with Tazewell County, Virginia. Wikipedia.

The community of Jenkiinjones bares the name of coal baron Jenkin Jones .

History of Jenkinjones by: Buddy French

The community and mines at Jenkinjones have an interesting history.  James Elwood Jones, son of Jenkin Jones, was one of the principal founders of the Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company and the General Manager.  In 1911, Jones sent crews into an area three miles south of Jeanette, which was later renamed Anawalt, to build a new mining complex and community.  The coal company originally took out a lease of 4,690 acres of the valuable Pocahontas No.3 coal seam for the No. 6, 7 and 8 mines.  Jones wanted it to be a first-class place to work and live and named the community Jenkinjones, in honor of his father, Jenkin Jones.  Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries, later to be renamed Pocahontas Fuel Company, began shipping coal from Jenkinjones in 1912.  In 1966, Pocahontas Fuel became a division on Consolidated Coal Company, and they continued mining coal at Jenkinjones until 1989.  Over the seventy-seven years of its life, the Jenkinjones mines produced 55,720,358 tons of high-grade metallurgical coal.  Today, Jenkinjones is quiet and its railroads, coal tipples and coal mining industry are gone but its history will live on.