Jennings, Garrett County, Maryland

Jennings is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Garrett County, Maryland, United States.Jennings is in the valley of the South Branch of the Casselman River, 3 miles (5 km) west of the Eastern Continental Divide.Worth Jennings from Towanda, Pennsylvania, launched their project to harvest the old growth forest between Grantsville and Bittinger in Garrett County, Maryland.They hired local men for labor, and they arranged for Hungarian immigrants experienced in the timber trades to relocate to Jennings.In addition to their project in Maryland, the brothers launched a similar enterprise in Tucker County, West Virginia, which created the town of Jenningston.