JACKSON 



3101 



JACKSONVILLE 



remains of fortifications erected during the War 

 of Secession. The city contains Millsaps Col- 

 lege (Methodist Episcopal, South) ; Bellhaven 

 College (non-sectarian) for girls; Jackson Col- 

 lege for negroes (founded at Natchez by the 

 American Baptist Home Mission Society, and 

 removed to Jackson) ; Campbell College ; state 

 schools for the blind, deaf and dumb and the 

 insane; the state library; James Observatory; 

 a Carnegie Library; hospitals and sanitariums. 



Jackson is situated in a productive cotton 

 section, and not far distant is the long-leaf 

 pine region. The principal industrial establish- 

 ments of the city are cotton-oil mills, lumber 

 mills, a casket factory, sash and blind mills and 

 fertilizer factories. The site of Jackson was 

 chosen as the seat of the state government in 

 1821. The town was founded and named in 

 honor of Andrew Jackson in 1822, and it was 

 chartered as a city in 1840. In 1912 the com- 

 mission form of government was adopted. 



JACKSON, TENN., a cotton market and 

 important trade center of the state, and the 

 county seat of Madison County, is situated on 

 the South Fork of the Forked Deer River, in 

 the western part of the state, about midway 

 between the northern and southern state lines. 

 Memphis is eighty-five miles southwest and 

 Cairo, 111., is 120 miles northwest. The Illinois 

 Central, the Mobile & Ohio, the Nashville, 

 Chattanooga & Saint Louis and the Birming- 

 ham and North Western railways provide fine 

 transportation facilities. The population was 

 17,807 in 1916, according to a Federal estimate ; 

 in 1910 it was 15,779. 



Jackson is the trade center for a large pro- 

 ductive agricultural section, extensive ship- 

 ments being made of strawberries, tomatoes, 

 cotton and grain. From the city radiates a 

 network of Madison County's famous gravel 

 roads. The principal manufactures include 

 engines, boilers, cotton goods, lumber, machin- 

 ery, flour, cottonseed oil, furniture, trunks, 

 spokes, plows, carriages and bricks. Among 

 the notable buildings are the $75,000 Federal 

 building, the $75,000 Y. M. C. A. building, 

 Elks' Home and a $340,000 Carnegie Library. 

 Jackson is the seat of Union University (Bap- 

 tist), Memphis Conference Female Institute, 

 and Lane College, for negroes. 



The first settlement was made in 1816, the 

 town was incorporated in 1823 and the city 

 charter was granted in 1854. In 1907 a new 

 charter was granted by which the sale of intoxi- 

 cating liquors was permanently prohibited. In 

 1915 the commission form of government, with 



three elective officers, was adopted. It was 

 named for Andrew Jackson, seventh President 

 of the United States. R.S.F. 



JACK' SON VILLE, FLA., the county seat of 

 Duval County, the largest and most important 

 commercial city of Florida, a port of entry 

 and well-known winter resort. It is in the 

 northeastern corner of the state and is situated 

 on the west bank of the Saint John's River, 

 fourteen miles directly, and twenty-seven miles 

 by water, west of the Atlantic Ocean. Saint 

 Augustine is about forty miles southeast and 

 Savannah is 146 miles north and east. 



Jacksonville is known as the Gate City of 

 Florida. It is the largest railroad center of 

 the state, and is on the Atlantic Coast Line, 

 the Seaboard Air Line, the Southern, the 

 Georgia Southern & Florida and the Florida 

 East Coast railroads. The work of the Federal 

 government in deepening the channel of the 

 river has made the city the port of several 

 steamship lines. Its area is nearly ten square 

 miles. In 1910 the population was 57,699; in 

 1916 it was 76,101, by a Census Bureau esti- 

 mate. 



Jacksonville is an attractive city, with streets 

 and private residence grounds made beautiful 

 by tropical and semitropical vegetation. In 

 the city are Confederate, Springfield, River- 

 side and Hemming (containing a Federal 

 monument) and other parks, and about 

 eighteen miles distant are the beaches. Orange 

 groves add much to the beauty of the sur- 

 rounding country. . 



Among many noteworthy buildings, nearly 

 all of them recently constructed, are the Fed- 

 eral building, city hall, county courthouse, 

 armory, Union Depot, Y. M. C. A., Masonic 

 Temple, and a Carnegie Library. There are 

 a number of fine hotels, a United States Marine 

 Hospital, Saint Luke's, Saint Catherine's and 

 the county hospitals, and the De Soto and 

 several private sanitariums. Jacksonville has a 

 Confederate soldiers' home and Daniel Memo- 

 rial and Saint Mary's orphanages. The Florida 

 Baptist Academy and Cookman Institute 

 (Methodist Episcopal), schools for colored peo- 

 ple, and a military academy are located here. 

 Especially interesting sights for visitors are the 

 ostrich and alligator farms. The city has 

 become a very popular outdoor studio for 

 moving-picture companies. 



The large export trade of the city includes 

 lumber, naval stores (turpentine and rosin), 

 phosphate, cigars, oranges, moss, cotton, kaolin, 

 fruits and vegetables. The industrial enter- 



