Golf in Jenkins

Jenkins is a Letcher County community in the pine and hardwood forests of far southeastern Kentucky near the Virginia border, originally built as a coal company town by the Consolidation Coal Company in the early twentieth century. The company's planned community design created an organized, grid-planned townscape unusual in the typically organic development of mountain communities. Letcher County's coal heritage and the community's position in the black mountain country near Big Black Mountain — Kentucky's highest point — create the Appalachian context for a community adapting to the coal industry's long decline. Kentucky's community golf facilities serve as important gathering spaces where the professional and agricultural populations share recreational space, maintaining the social connections that sustain small-city civic life.