Scrip

ID: 928
This file appears in: Jenkins
Scrip

Scrip tokens like this were used by coal workers to purchase goods at the coal company stores. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Jenkins

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #1804 in Jenkins notes the history of this Letcher County coal town. In the last decade of the 19th century coal production by industrial companies began in earnest. A rapidly industrializing United States needed a fuel source…