On this day in Alabama history: Town of Jackson was formed

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Portrait of Major General Andrew Jackson, c. 1820. (Artwork by Thomas Sully and engraved by James B. Longacre, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
July 3, 1815
The town of Jackson in Clarke County was originally settled as Republicville, within Creek territory. The Pine Level Land Company started laying out the town in 1815, but the name Pine Level did not stick. The community was rechristened in honor Andrew Jackson, who commanded an army of Tennessee militia who helped tilt the Creek Civil War in the direction of those who were open to settlement.
Read more at Encyclopedia of Alabama.

Civil War Brooke Cannon in front of City Hall in Jackson, 2010. (The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)
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