Source: "A Frederick Findings Gazetteer of Page County, Virginia." Frederick Findings. Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter 1992).

Jollett or Jolletts or Jollette

Jollett is a community and extinct post office in Shenandoah Iron Works District of Page County, Virginia. Post Office Department records indicate the community applied in June 1888 for a site to be located 7 miles east of the South Fork of the Shenandoah River on the north bank of the East Branch of Naked Creek, 3 miles east of Furnace, 7 miles east of the nearest depot of the Norfolk & Western Railway, and about 10 miles south of Marksville. A map which accompanied the application showed its location in relation to the Verbena Post Office in Page County as well as the Swift Run and Elkton Post Offices in Rockingham County. Further proof of its existence can be found in a Post Office report of December 9, 1895. The post office operated out of the general store run by John W. Jollett who was also the minister of the local Methodist Episcopal Church.

Jollett Hollow

The narrow valley formed below the confluence of the East Branch of Naked Creek and Big Creek and above the confluence of East and West branches of Naked Creek came to be known as Jollett Hollow (pronounced "hollar" by the locals).

Jollett School

The Page News & Courier of August 1915 printed a report in which the Page County School Superintendent mentioned the little community school. It is also shown on the Lake Atlas of Shenandoah Iron Works District, Page County (VSL 755.764/P7[3]/1885).

Jollett Chapel

Although it is not named as such in Lake's Atlas of Shenandoah Iron Works District, Page County (VSL 755.764/P7 [3]/1885), Jollett Chapel was a Methodist Episcopal congregation. The chapel was mentioned in the Page County death register of 1879 as the residence of Edward Meadows who lived near John W. Jollett, minister of the congregation. The Jollett United Methodist Church still conducts services there.

Naked Creek

Naked Creek is the right-hand tributary of the South Fork of the Shenandoah River rising on the southwest face of Big Meadows and forming just over six miles of the boundary between Page and Rockingham Counties. Most of its watershed is within Page County.

Naked Creek Falls

The Falls are a cascade of the East Branch of Naked Creek between Long Ridge and Powell Mountain. The landform is marked on deLorme's Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer (page 68, quadrant A-1).

Jollett Springs

Jollett Springs is located in Harriston in Augusta County, VA. When James Franklin Jollett lived there in the early 1900's (prior to 1930), people brought their own containers to fill with the special water which according to the locals had healing powers. Today a trailer park stands where the springs once flowed, but the streets still carry the name of Jollett Lane North and Jollett Lane South.