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| Page Views: 1,381 Last Visit to Jackson: - | Jackson, Mississippi by jholley534 - last update: May 17, 2006 |
I stopped through Jackson for about a week while on a road trip. It's a medium sized city with most of the attractions, stores, and restaurants located not far off the interstate.
Jackson is conveniently located at the crossroads of Interstate 55 & Interstate 20 and the population in July of 2004 was 179,298. |
|  | HISTORY OF JACKSON
Jackson Mississippi was founded in 1821 at the site of a trading post that was situated on a "high handsome bluff" on the west bank of the Pearl River. Legend tells that the trading post was operated by a French-Canadian trader named Louis LeFleur, and the town originally was called LeFleur's Bluff.
A legislative act dated November 28, 1821 authorized the location to be the permanent seat of government for the state and that it would be named Jackson, in honor of Major General Andrew Jackson who would later become the seventh president of the United States.
Jackson's growth in the 1800s was slow and sometimes painful. During the Civil War, the town was ravaged and burned three times by Union troops under the command of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Surprisingly, the City Hall was spared the torch.
Although less than 8,000 people lived in the Jackson area at the turn of the century, its population began accelerating rapidly after 1900, and it is now one of the dynamic growth areas of the Sunbelt. In 1990, the population of the Metropolitan area rose to 395,396. |
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travelife Sat Jun 5, 2004 06:26 UTC
Informative page on Jackson..happy travels! :) | caffeine_induced78 Mon Mar 8, 2004 03:04 UTC
very useful page for a stop in Jackson. I love your passion for animals. Thank you for the birthday wishes :-) | nomorewars Fri Jan 9, 2004 09:39 UTC
Very informative. A page like this can be useful for someone who has a day to kill in Jackson, or just wants to visit the city for a day or two. | mafootje Sat Mar 29, 2003 19:58 UTC
Well i am going to try the Fairfield Inn in Jackson...I hope like that one too.. |
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