Pennington

The Pennington community is named after the Pennington family, who settled in the area after Thomas Pennington was given a land grant in 1784 for his service during the Revolutionary War. By the 1880’s, Pennington had a post office and a country store. The Pennington Methodist Church was dedicated in 1890 and a school was constructed in 1905. The Pennington home built in 1847, still stands, along with the homes of other prominent community families: the Newtons and the Walkers. The community has always been an agricultural area. Original crops of peaches and cotton have been replaced by timber and dairy farms.

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Pennington Methodist Church Marker Dedication	Nan Bowden Meriwether	Mrs. W.T. Meriwether funeral announcement	W.T. Meriwether funeral announcement
Pennington School students, 1932-1933	Pennington School - Ossie Williams	Pennington School students, 1935	Pennington School students, 1932-1933

Memories of Pennington

“The three main things that held the community together, which was much larger than it is now, was the church, a school house, and a little country store. And the store was where the farmers would come around and get… in fact we have the ledgers… where they would buy their supplies for the year and sign on these books. And when they would sell their crops, they share cropped a lot, they would pay off their bills. And the store was always used as the voting place for that community.”

Jacquelyn Pennington, interviewed April 18, 2009