There was an old wooden building at the corner where the Nelson Buick dealership had once been. It housed the Clough Brothers lumberyard, which started in September 1882. Clough's was sold to William Henry Greenleaf and Son (Charles Albert) in the spring of 1884. By now you know about Albert Spence, Litchfield's only black resident who came after the Civil War. Most people don't know about the second black person in the county. “Black Jenny” was Jenny Gardner and she was originally a housemaid for the Harmon Pennoyer family in Greenleaf. The Pennoyers had vacationed in the south in October 1886 and had convinced Jenny to come back up north to work for them. Farm kids around the Greenleaf area had never seen a black woman, and Jenny was very black, so they would go out of their way to go by the Pennoyer place and peek in on Jenny working in the house. She'd see them and say, “Run along, you chiluns.” Black Jenny moved to Litchfield from Greenleaf, to run a laundry.