Jackson, Tennessee
Jackson, Tennessee Location of Jackson, Tennessee Location of Jackson, Tennessee Website City of Jackson Official Website Jackson is the governmental center of county of Madison County, Tennessee.
Jackson is the major city of the Jackson, Tennessee urbane area, which is encompassed in the Jackson-Humboldt, Tennessee Combined Statistical Area.
Jackson is Madison County's biggest city, and the second-largest town/city in West Tennessee next to Memphis.
It is home to the Tennessee Supreme Court's courthouse for West Tennessee, as Jackson was the primary city in the west when the court was established in 1834.
In the antebellum era, Jackson was the market town/city for an agricultural region based on cultivation of cotton, the primary commodity crop.
Beginning in 1851, the town/city became a core of barns systems ultimately connecting to primary markets in the north and south, as well as east and west.
Based on the 2012 estimate, Jackson is the seventh-largest town/city in Tennessee.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 49.5 square miles (128 km2), all land.
Jackson's executive Mayor is propel at-large every four years.
Jackson's town/city court judge serves an eight-year term with a fixed full time pay amid each term.
Jackson has been home to the Tennessee Supreme Court's courthouse for West Tennessee since 1834, giving the town/city a unique position in state government.
When the court was established, Jackson was the primary city in the part of the state, as Memphis had not been advanced at that point. Bird's eye view of the town/city of Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee 1870.
European-American settlement of Jackson began along the Forked Deer River before 1820, primarily by migrants arriving from easterly areas of the Upper South, such as Virginia and Kentucky.
Originally titled Alexandria, the town/city was retitled in 1822 to honor General Andrew Jackson, a hero of the War of 1812.
The City of Jackson was established by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly, passed in 1821, entitled an "act to establish a seat of justice for Henry, Carroll, Henderson and Madison Counties." The larger portion of the pioneer at that time were living on Cotton Grove Road, and as Jackson was closer to them than either of the other settlements, the town/city was determined to be the more suitable site for the seat of justice. At the time of the second Tennessee State Constitution in 1834, when the Tennessee Supreme Court was established, Memphis had not yet developed.
The governmental center of county of Jackson was the most momentous city in West Tennessee and this was designated as a site for the State Supreme Court in this part of the state. The town/city of Jackson did not establish enhance elections until 1837, with a Board of Aldermen propel at-large.
From 1854 to 1915, Jackson had a Board of Aldermen of eight members propel from four districts, each with two members.
As county seat, Jackson was a trading town and retail center for encircling agricultural areas.
Between December 11, 1862 and January 1, 1863, an engagement at Jackson occurred amid Confederate Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest's expedition into West Tennessee.
If Forrest finished the Mobile & Ohio Railroad running south from Columbus, Kentucky through Jackson, Grant would have to curtail or halt his operations altogether.
The fight amounted to no more than a feint and show of force intended to hold Jackson's Union defenders in position, while two mounted Confederate columns finished railroad track to both the north and south of the town, then returned.
Forrest withdrew from the Jackson region to attack Trenton and Humboldt after this mission was accomplished. As a result of the destruction of the barns , Grant abandoned his plans to invade Mississippi from Tennessee in favor of an attack on Vicksburg.
Federal troops left Jackson and moved to Memphis, which became a primary center for Union troops for the duration of the war.
Forrest returned to Jackson in early 1864 and used the town/city as his command posts as his forces attacked Federal positions in northern West Tennessee and Fort Pillow, a Union position on the Mississippi north of Memphis.
Forrest returned to Jackson again later that year in preparation for an attack on Federal river traffic on the Tennessee River east of Paris and the supply base at Johnsonville.
With the emancipation of slaves and passage of US constitutional amendments, Jackson's freedmen and formerly no-charge citizens of color began to participate in the political system.
But in the late 19th century, the white-dominated state council passed a several laws that made voter registration and voting more difficult, including payment of a poll tax, and resulted in reducing voting by many blacks and poor whites. In 1886, Eliza Woods, an black woman, was lynched in Jackson after being accused of poisoning and killing her employer, Jessie Woolen.
In 1915, Jackson was one of a several cities in the state to adopt a commission form of government, changing its electoral scheme to at-large voting citywide for three designated positions: a mayor and two commissioners.
(Other metros/cities to make this change encompassed Clarksville, Chattanooga, Knoxville and Nashville.) Although the state in 1913 enacted a law enabling metros/cities to adopt the commission form of government autonomously, Jackson was chartered by the state for this change. The commissioners each had specific responsibilities, for instance, for the school fitness and town/city departments. In the late 19th century, the state of Tennessee had already adopted residency requirements, voting process, and poll taxes that sharply reduced the ability of African Americans to register and vote.
In Jackson, the total effect of these shifts to the electoral fitness of town/city government was to reduce the ability of African Americans to elect candidates and participate in the political system. In 1977 three town/city residents filed suit against the town/city in US District Court, in Buchanan v.
City of Jackson (1988), (683 F.Supp.
1515), challenging the structure and electoral fitness of the town/city government because the at-large voting had diluted the voting power of the city's momentous minority of black residents.
(According to the 1980 Census, the town/city population was 49,074, of which 16,847, or 34.3%, were black.) Since 1915, no black person had ever been propel to, or served on, the Board of Commissioners. The court found this commission electoral fitness was found to be discriminatory in effect.
By a new town/city charter, in 1989 the town/city created a Board of Commission based on nine single-member districts. The mayor is propel at-large.
Similar legal challenges to the electoral and town/city systems in Clarksville and Chattanooga led to shifts in their town/city charters to establish more various members of a town/city council or board of commission, to be propel from single-member districts.
The dissolution of the former government in Jackson resulted in the need for an propel town/city school board, since one of the commissioners had previously managed education.
The town/city commissioners chose to consolidate their school fitness with that of Madison County, Tennessee school fitness in 1990, creating the Jackson-Madison County School Board.
By the end of 1960s, it sharply reduced passenger service to Jackson; there were related losses of associated industrialized jobs supporting the barns s, causing economic enigma in the region.
The Jackson region has thriving such primary manufacturing companies as Procter & Gamble and Stanley/Black and Decker, and also diversified its economy.
In 2005 Jackson also became the home to Bodine Aluminum, a 100% Toyota owned high volume die casting plant.
Jackson began investing in a large fiber network in 2003 and in January 2015 Jackson was titled a "Gig City" from the upgrades to its fiber network to offer Internet speeds up to 1 gigabit per second to the home.
On May 1, 2010 a harsh thunderstorm hit Jackson, dropping 13 inches of precipitation in a short reconstructionof time. Flash floods finished many homes and streets. Jackson advanced rapidly just before to the Civil War as a barns junction and maintenance shop for a several early barns s, including the Mississippi Central, the Tennessee Central and the Mobile and Ohio lines.
Located over seventy miles east of Memphis, Jackson lies along the shortest rail route between Cairo, IL, Jackson, MS (Mississippi's capital) and New Orleans.
As the barns was extended from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, Jackson, Tennessee was perfectly situated as a station along the north-south line; and, to serve as a junction between the north-south line, and lines east and west between Memphis and Nashville, TN.
The line first entered Jackson in 1851.
The line consolidated with the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad in 1940 to turn into the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The second barns to enter Jackson was the Mississippi Central & Tennessee.
On December 29, 1886, the Tennessee Midland Railway received a charter to build a barns from Memphis, Tennessee to the Virginia state line.
The line from Memphis to Jackson was instead of on June 1, 1888.
Around 1968 the remainder of the Tennessee Midland was abandoned east of Cordova with the exception of some track in Jackson, Tennessee.
That track is now used to bring goods to Jackson's east and west industrialized parks.
The Tennessee Midland Railway Company line from Memphis to Jackson was the forerunner of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Like all other barns s to enter Jackson, it was assembled with funds subscribed by people and investors of Jackson.
The first passenger train entered Jackson from Memphis on June 1, 1888.
The first zone extended from Jackson to the station of Tigrett, and by April 20, 1912, 38 miles (61 km) of the line were ready for operations.
On June 16 the remaining 11-mile (18 km) zone was set into service, connecting Dyersburg, Tennessee with Jackson.
The barns became an meaningful small-town thoroughfare, used to transport much of the produce of the region to market in Jackson and Dyersburg.
The names of some of those trains were The Rebel, Gulf Coast Rebel, The Sunchaser, The Floridian, The Seminole, The City of Memphis, and The City of Miami.
Jackson Metropolitan Travel Destination Jackson is the larger principal town/city of the Jackson-Humboldt CSA, a Combined Travel Destination that includes the Jackson urbane region (Chester and Madison counties) and the Humboldt micropolitan region (Gibson County), which had a combined populace of 165,108 at the 2010 census. Interstate 40 has seven exits in the city. The Jackson Transit Authority line provides intra-city bus service, while the Greyhound Bus line provides inter-city service. Sea - Port Airlines began commercial service from Jackson to both Memphis and Nashville in January 2012.
K-12 enhance schools in the town/city and county are directed by the merged Jackson-Madison County School System.
Jackson State Community College Tennessee College of Applied Technology at Jackson Jackson Central-Merry High School Jackson Christian School University School of Jackson Jackson is served by one daily, The Jackson Sun.
As of the 2015-2016 tv season, the Jackson tv market is the smallest market in Tennessee and 176th overall by Nielsen Media Research. The market is served by three primary commercial stations: WBBJ-TV 7 (ABC, with CBS/Me - TV on DT3), WJKT 16 (Fox), and WNBJ-LD 39 (NBC).
Jackson is also served by a PBS member station, WLJT-DT 11, as well as a several other low-power stations (among them Antenna TV/My - Network - TV partner WYJJ-LD 27).
According to Morgan Quitno's 2010 Metropolitan Crime Rate Rankings the Jackson urbane region had the 13th-highest crime rate in the United States.
The Morgan Quitno list of the "Top 25 Most Dangerous Cities of 2007", ranked Jackson's as the 9th most dangerous urbane region in the United States. In 2006, it had been listed as the 18th most dangerous. The West Tenn Diamond Jaxx, a Class AA minor league baseball team in the Southern League, and an partner of the Seattle Mariners, played in Jackson from 1998 to 2010.
The team changed its name for the 2011 season to the Jackson Generals, recalling the same name of the minor league team that played in Jackson in the Texas League in the early 20th century.
The Hub City Hurricanes of the IBL played in Jackson for one season in 2007.
In 1974, a little league team from Jackson played in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA to date, the only team from West Tennessee to qualify. Jackson is home to the Miss Tennessee Pageant, the official state finals to the Miss America competition.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Jackson has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Climate data for Jackson, Tennessee Van Jones, surroundingal promote, civil rights activist, and lawyer, was born in Jackson.
Denise La - Salle, blues singer and present Queen of the Blues, has been a resident and company owner in Jackson for many years.
Carl Perkins, singer, lived for years in Jackson; the Civic Center is titled for him. John Lee Curtis Williamson, blues harmonica player better known as Sonny Boy Williamson, was born in Jackson.
Madison County, Tennessee, TNGen - Web Project.
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Tennessee Advisory Committee, School Desegregation in Tennessee, to the US Commission on Civil Rights, April 2008 a b c d "How the Railroads Came to Jackson" (PDF).
2007 Tennessee Official State Transportation Map "Locations: Jackson, Tennessee".
"Jackson, Tennessee Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
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