A history of Jackson,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Jackson from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Established in 1817, residents named the town after Andrew Jackson, a hero of the War of 1812, and an eventual president of the United States. The community grew slowly, having only 297 inhabitants in 1840. In 1846, Jackson had four churches, about seven stores, and a single newspaper office. Over the next 40 years, the town grew quickly, attaining a population of 3,021 people in 1880. By 1880, two railroad lines passed through the community, helping to spur economic and population growth. In 1886, two newspaper offices, eight churches, and two banks existed in Jackson. The largest businesses in the town were the Star Furnace Company and the Globe Iron Company, with 30 employees apiece. Both firms used local coal and iron ore deposits to make iron products.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Jackson’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewJackson-JISCO (CORF & COAF), 1899: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Jackson, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Jackson-JISCO (CORF & COAF) (1899) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.