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ID: 7016129
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016129
Record Type:
administrative
Jackson (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 32 17 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 32.2833
decimal degrees
Long: 090 11 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -90.1833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Pearl river; established as trading post in 1792; developed when territory was opened to settlement; was laid out in 1822 in checkerboard pattern designed by Thomas Jefferson; was largely destroyed in Civil War; revived in 1930s.
Names:
Jackson
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Le Fleur's Bluff
(
H
,
V
)
............
named after trader who settled here in 1792
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Mississippi
(state) (
P
)
................
Hinds
(county) (
P
)
....................
Jackson
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by French-Canadians in 1792, incorporated in 1823
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
............
since 1821
county seat (
C
)
............
with nearby Raymond, is co-seat of Hinds county
oil field site (
C
)
............
natural gas fields were discovered nearby in 1930s
transportation center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
battlefield (
H
)
............
May 1863
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Mississippi
.......... (state)
..................
(World, North and Central America, United States) [7007522]
Sources and Contributors:
Jackson..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
6:454-455
.................
Gousha: Mississippi (1996)
.................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
233
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS28007584
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Le Fleur's Bluff..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 454-455
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS28007584
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 454-455; 6:454-455
..................
Gousha: Mississippi (1996)
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
233
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS28007584
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
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