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The Jackson area was originally inhabited by Native Americans of the Choctaw and Chickasaw peoples. A French-Canadian trapper, Louis Le Fleur, built a trading post near the present city center in the early 1790s, and this location came to be known as Le Fleur’s Bluff. In 1821 it became the state capital and was named in honor of Andrew Jackson, then a military hero for his campaigns in the South against the British and Native Americans and later the nation’s seventh president. When the community was laid out in 1822, alternating blocks were designated as parks, a plan created by the nation’s third president, Thomas Jefferson. Jackson incorporated the same year.

In 1863, during the American Civil War, Jackson was destroyed by Union troops under General William Tecumseh Sherman; the city’s charred landscape earned it the name Chimneyville. Recovery after the war was slow, but industrial development was spurred in the 1930s by the discovery of natural gas nearby. During the 1960s and early 1970s, the city was the scene of racial unrest; subsequent decades have seen improvement in the state of race relations.

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Official Website of the City of Jackson, Mississippi
City Hall
219 South President Street
Jackson, Mississippi 39205

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