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Jackson County is the second largest Missouri County
after St. Louis County, due to the presence of Kansas City.
Organized on December 15, 1826. Named after Andrew Jackson, U.S.
Senator (and later President) from Tennessee.
Independence is the County Seat. Independence was founded on
March 29, 1827. Parent County Lillard, now Lafayette |
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JACKSON COUNTY
Is situated in the northwestern portion of the State, bounded on
the north by the Missouri river, and on the west by the Kansas
State line. The county has an undulating surface, with a
desirable division of prairie and timber, underlaid with
limestone, well adapted for building purposes, and is well
watered. The soil is very fertile, producing the heaviest yields
of all kinds of agricultural products. The agricultural,
manufacturing and commercial resources of Jackson county are
second to but one or two in the State, and in some respects it
has no equal. The Union Pacific railroad is completed and in
operation from Kansas City, west, to Lawrence, and is being
pushed forward with all possible dispatch. The Pacific railroad
of Missouri will be completed to Kansas City, probably, early in
June, thus making a continuous line from Kansas City to St Louis
and the East. Capitalists, manufacturers, farmers, mechanics, or
any class of business men will here find ample scope for the
profitable employment of the capital, labor and skill. The
principal towns in the county are Independence, the county seat,
Kansas City, the heaviest commercial point west of St Louis,
Westport, Sibley, Lone Jack, New Santa Fe, etc. Population 1860,
19,166.
The Source is: P.M. Pinckard, The Missouri
handbook, St. Louis, 1865, 162 pgs.
Transcribed by Donna Walton
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