Jackson is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Tennessee, United States. Located 70 miles (110 km) east of Memphis, it is a regional center of trade for West Tennessee. Its sum population was 68,205 as of the 2020 United States census.
Jackson is the primary city of the Jackson, Tennessee metropolitan area, which is included in the Jackson-Humboldt, Tennessee accumulate statistical area. Jackson is Madison County’s largest city, and the second-largest city in West Tennessee adjoining Memphis. It is house to the Tennessee Supreme Court’s courthouse for West Tennessee, as Jackson was the major city in the west next the court was standard in 1834.

In the antebellum era, Jackson was the market city for an agricultural Place based upon cultivation of cotton, the major commodity crop. Beginning in 1851, the city became a hub of railroad systems ultimately connecting to major markets in the north and south, as skillfully as east and west. This was key to its development, attracting trade and many workers upon the railroads in the late 19th century with the construction of railroads after the American Civil War. Through the 1960s, the city was served by 15 passenger trains daily, but industry restructuring reduced such bolster and caused the loss of jobs. The economy has adjusted to additional businesses, with major manufacturing in the area.

This Place was occupied by the historic Chickasaw people at the mature of European encounter. They were pushed out by European-American settlers under various treaties similar to the United States, in goings-on authorized by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and ratified by the US Senate.

European-American concurrence of Jackson began along the Forked Deer River since 1820, primarily by migrants from eastern areas of the Upper South, such as Virginia and Kentucky. Originally named Alexandria, the city was renamed in 1822 to praise General Andrew Jackson, a hero of the War of 1812. He was progressive elected as President of the United States.