203 East Wolfe Street
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22802
Directions from Doc Dickerson's House to site 10:
Known both as Miss Jenny's Tea Room and Jennie's Chicken Shack, this small restaurant was in a multi-use building on E Wolfe Street. There was a barber shop there as well as a room for the Effinger Street students to play basketball, as the school had no gym. Jennie T. Long and Charles Robinson were the owners and operators. Charles was born July 16, 1894, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served in World War I and died on January 7, 1950. He is buried in the historic Newtown cemetery in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He came to the Shenandoah Valley because his father was born here. Jennie Long was born in 1899, and lived her entire life in the Harrisonburg area. Charles and Jennie married on June 1st, 1940, and they lived at 252 East Wolfe Street, which was across the street from the restaurant. The building was torn down during the urban renewal project in Harrisonburg.
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