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The Jackson Historic District is a historic district in the city of Jackson, Alabama, United States. Jackson was founded in 1816 and is the oldest incorporated settlement in Clarke County . The historic district features examples of Greek Revival , Queen Anne , Colonial Revival , and regional vernacular architecture. [ 2 ]
Jackson is located along the western border of Clarke County at coordinates , on a rise overlooking east bank of the Tombigbee According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.8 square miles (41.0 km 2), of which 15.6 square miles (40.5 km 2) is land and 0.19 square miles (0.5 km 2), or 1.21%, is water.
Location of Jackson County in Alabama. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jackson County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, first church of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he began his work as a national civil rights activist, in 1955 with the Montgomery bus boycott in Montgomery Gaineswood in Demopolis Clark Hall in the Gorgas–Manly Historic District on the University of Alabama campus Tannehill Ironworks in Tuscaloosa ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The J. P. McKee Lustron House is a historic enameled steel prefabricated house in Jackson, Alabama, United States. Designed and constructed by the Lustron Corporation, this example is one of two in Jackson. The other, the Doit W. McClellan Lustron House, is just around the corner from the McKee Lustron. [2]
The site also features the Taskigi Mound or "Mound at Fort Toulouse – Fort Jackson Park" a prehistoric South Appalachian Mississippian culture palisaded village with a central plaza area, and a rectangular platform mound. The mound is one of the locations included on the University of Alabama Museums "Alabama Indigenous Mound Trail". [7]
On August 9, 1814, Andrew Jackson forced the Creek to sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson. The Creek Nation was forced to cede 23 million acres (93,000 km 2)—half of central Alabama and part of southern Georgia—to the United States government; this included territory of the Lower Creek, who had been allies of the United States. Jackson had ...