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Jackson is a city in that grew as a crossroads between various railroads in the four cardinal directions. It was the major commerce center of western Tennessee around the time of its founding in 1821 because Memphis had yet to emerge as a dominant community.
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  • Type: City with 67,000 residents
  • Description: city in Madison County, Tennessee, United States
  • Also known as: “Jackson, Tennessee” and “Jackson, TN”
  • Postal codes: 38301-38303, 38305, 38308, and 38314

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint Lukes Episcopal Church and Madison County Courthouse.

Church
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St. Luke's Episcopal Church is a historic church at 309 E. Baltimore Street in Jackson, Tennessee, United States. The congregation was formed in 1832, the first of five new Episcopal congregations planted in that year after Mrs.

Courthouse
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The in Jackson, Tennessee is a historic Public Works Administratio Moderne-style courthouse built in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The listing included three contributing objects.

Cemetery
is a in Jackson, Tennessee located on Hollywood Drive at Williams Street, about 0.4 miles north of Airways Boulevard. At present, it occupies a deeded area of 30 acres.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bemis.

Hamlet
is a former company town in , United States, now part of the city of Jackson. The Brothers Bag Company established the town in 1900 to be the site of a cotton mill and housing for the mill workers.

Jackson

Latitude
35.6144° or 35° 36′ 52″ north
Longitude
-88.8177° or 88° 49′ 4″ west
Population
67,000
Elevation
410 feet (125 metres)
IATA airport code
MKL
Open location code
867HJ57J+QW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153512801
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4632595
Wiki­data ID
Q985409
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Jackson” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جاكسون”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cekson”
  • Basque: “Jackson”
  • Belarusian: “Джэксан”
  • Bengali: “জ্যাকসন”
  • Bulgarian: “Джаксън”
  • Catalan: “Jackson”
  • Cebuano: “Jackson”
  • Chechen: “Джексон”
  • Chinese: “Jackson”
  • Chinese: “傑克遜”
  • Chinese: “杰克逊”
  • Czech: “Jackson”
  • Danish: “Jackson”
  • Dutch: “Jackson”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جاكسون”
  • Finnish: “Jackson, Tennessee”
  • Finnish: “Jackson”
  • French: “Jackson”
  • German: “Jackson”
  • Gilaki: “جکسؤن”
  • Greek: “Τζάκσον”
  • Gujarati: “જેક્સન”
  • Haitian: “Jackson, Tennessee”
  • Haitian: “Jackson”
  • Hebrew: “ג’קסון”
  • Hindi: “जैक्सन”
  • Hungarian: “Jackson”
  • Ido: “Jackson, Tennessee”
  • Ido: “Jackson”
  • Indonesian: “Jackson”
  • Irish: “Jackson”
  • Italian: “Jackson”
  • Japanese: “ジャクソン”
  • Kannada: “ಜಾಕ್ಸನ್”
  • Korean: “잭슨”
  • Ladin: “Jackson”
  • Latvian: “Džeksona”
  • Lithuanian: “Džeksonas”
  • Malagasy: “Jackson, Tennessee”
  • Malagasy: “Jackson”
  • Malay: “Jackson”
  • Malayalam: “ജാക്സൺ”
  • Marathi: “जॅक्सन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Jackson”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jackson”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jackson”
  • Norwegian: “Jackson”
  • Persian: “جکسن، تنسی”
  • Persian: “جکسن”
  • Polish: “Jackson”
  • Portuguese: “Jackson”
  • Russian: “Джексон”
  • Russian: “Джэксон”
  • Serbian: “Џексон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jackson, Tennessee”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jackson”
  • Silesian: “Jackson”
  • Sinhala: “ජැක්සන්”
  • Slovak: “Jackson”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جکسن، تنسی”
  • Spanish: “Jackson (Tennessee)”
  • Spanish: “Jackson”
  • Swedish: “Jackson, Tennessee”
  • Swedish: “Jackson”
  • Tamil: “ஜாக்சன்”
  • Tatar: “Джексон (Теннесси)”
  • Tatar: “Джексон”
  • Telugu: “జాక్సన్”
  • Thai: “แจ๊กสัน”
  • Turkish: “Jackson, Tennessee”
  • Turkish: “Jackson”
  • Ukrainian: “Джексон”
  • Urdu: “جیکسن، ٹینیسی”
  • Urdu: “جیکسن”
  • Vietnamese: “Jackson, Tennessee”
  • Vietnamese: “Jackson”
  • Volapük: “Jackson”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jackson, Tennessee”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jackson”
  • Welsh: “Jackson, Tennessee”
  • Welsh: “Jackson”

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