Soldiers returning to Tennessee from the military campaigns near New Orleans in 1815 built a public road that connected Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana to this district. It was connected to markets in Tennessee. During the late 18th century and early 19th century, this site had a trading post. The village became known as LeFleur's Bluff. Located on the historic Natchez Trace trade route, created by Native Americans and used by European-American settlers, and on the Pearl River, the city's first European-American settler was Louis LeFleur, a French-Canadian trader. The largest community is located in Choctaw 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Jackson.įounding and antebellum period (to 1860) Īndrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States and the city's namesake They live in several majority- Indian communities located throughout the state. Today, most Choctaw in Mississippi have reorganized and are part of the federally recognized Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. They gave up their tribal membership and became state and United States citizens at the time. Although most of the Choctaw moved to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, along with the other of the Five Civilized Tribes, a significant number chose to stay in their homeland, citing Article XIV of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. government, the Choctaw Native Americans agreed to removal after 1830 from all of their lands east of the Mississippi River under the terms of several treaties. "We have had our habitations torn down and burned" as well as their "fences burned" while they constantly faced personal abuse and have been "scoured, manacled and fettered". One of the original Choctaw members, in 1849, described what he and his people experienced during this turbulent time when the Europeans had come to take their land.
After the treaty was ratified, American settlers moved into the area, encroaching on remaining Choctaw communal lands. The area now called Jackson was obtained by the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Doak's Stand in 1820, by which the United States acquired the land owned by the Choctaw Native Americans. The Choctaw name for the locale was Chisha Foka.
The region that is now the city of Jackson was historically part of the large territory occupied by the Choctaw Nation. The entire Choctaw Nation's location and size compared to the U.S. 1.6.2 World War II and later development.1.2 Founding and antebellum period (to 1860).In 2020, the Jackson metropolitan area held a GDP of 30 billion dollars, accounting for 29% of the state’s total GDP of 104.1 billion dollars. The Jackson metropolitan area is the state's second largest metropolitan area overall, due to four counties in northern Mississippi being part of the Memphis metropolitan area. Other notable locations are the Mississippi Coliseum and the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, home of the Jackson State Tigers Football Team. The city has a number of museums and cultural institutions,including the Mississippi Childrens Museum, Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Mississppi Civil Rights Museum, Mississippi Museum of Art, Old Capital Museum, Museum of Mississippi History. Being at this location has given the city the nickname the "crossroads of the south". The city is located in the deep south halfway between Memphis and New Orleans on Interstate 55 and Shreveport and Birmingham on Interstate 20. It has had numerous musicians prominent in blues, gospel, folk, and jazz. The current slogan for the city is "The City with Soul". ĭuring the 1920s, Jackson surpassed Meridian to become the most populous city in the state following a speculative natural gas boom in the region. Following the nearby Battle of Vicksburg in 1863 during the American Civil War, Union forces under the command of General William Tecumseh Sherman began the siege of Jackson and the city was subsequently burned.
The city sits on the Pearl River and is located in the greater Jackson Prairie region of Mississippi.įounded in 1821 as the site for a new state capital, the city is named after General Andrew Jackson, who was honored for his role in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and would later serve as U.S. With a 2020 population estimated around 600,000, metropolitan Jackson is home to over one-fifth of Mississippi's population. Jackson is the anchor for the Jackson, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area, the largest metropolitian area completely within the state. Jackson's population declined more between 20 (11.42%) than any major city in the United States. The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, down from 173,514 at the 2010 census. The city is also one of two county seats of Hinds County, along with Raymond.
Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S.
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