Jackson

Jackson, (1) a flourishing city of Michigan, capital of Jackson county, is on both sides of Grand River, which is here crossed by seventeen bridges (five of iron), 76 miles W. of Detroit, and 37 miles S. of Lansing, at the intersection of several railways. It has a number of flour, paper, and planing mills, and of foundries and machine-shops; the Michigan Central locomotive-works; breweries; and manufactures of furniture, carriages, wagons, boilers and machinery, farming implements, corsets, soap, &c., besides boots and shoes at the state-prison here. There is a flourishing general trade. Within the city limits, and close by, there are several mines of bituminous coal. Jackson was settled in 1830, and became a city in 1857. Pop. (1860) 4799; (1870) 11,447; (1890) 20,798.—(2) Capital of the state of Mississippi, on Pearl River, 45 miles E. of Vicksburg by rail, with regular streets, and houses standing for the most part among gardens. Here, besides the state-house, with a valuable library, are the usual state charitable institutions, and the penitentiary. There is a considerable trade in cotton. Pop. 5920.—(3) Capital of Madison county, Tennessee, on the South Fork of the Forked Deer River, 107 miles by rail S. by E. of Cairo, Illinois. It is the seat of the South-western Baptist University (1874), is of some importance as a cotton market, and has planing and other mills and railway shops. Pop. (1890) 10,039.