[2] Isaac Gould and Joseph Gardner were the first permanent settlers in modern-day Jenkins Township.

[5] He served as an officer in the American Revolution (1775-1782), and as a Representative of Luzerne County in the Pennsylvania Legislature (elected in 1797).

Port Griffith was named in honor of one of the original stockholders of the Pennsylvania Coal Company.

Other villages in the township (e.g., Port Blanchard, Inkerman, and Sebastopol) also played an important role in the mining industry.

[7] The coal companies left behind a scarred landscape (e.g., culm banks) when they pulled out of the region.

On September 25, 1982, George Banks killed thirteen people in a shooting rampage in Jenkins Township and Wilkes-Barre City.

Jenkins Township can be divided into two separate regions (connected by a small strip of land).

The northwestern portion of the township borders the Susquehanna River; it is mostly made up of homes and businesses.