The times, places and people that shaped the rich history of Jackson County's 200 years of existence. ;xNLx;If you see any errors, or have any suggestions please contact 200@co.jackson.ms.us.
The 1st County seat was set up in current day Benndale community with the Courthouse established in the home of Thomas Bilbo
Jackson County created and named in honor of either General Andrew Jackson or General James Jackson.
A hurricane hit the coast.
Nearly 500 U.S. colonists killed by Spanish troops and Creek Indians in current day Baldwin County
General Andrew Jackson marches through Jackson County to fight British troops. Many Jackson County men joined.
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County leaders moved the seat of government from the home of Thomas Bilbo to Brewer's Bluff where first "real" courthouse and jail were built.
Americus, located on the south side of Cedar Creek just east of what is now Old Americus Road, was the seat of county government for more than half a century. Yet, today there are no visible signs that it ever existed.
Contract was awarded to Marshall Lincoln of Plymouth, Mass. in the amount of $5,895. (Source: Lighthouse Preservation Society)
In 1837, the infamous outlaw James Copeland and his gang burned the courthouse at Americus to destroy evidence against Copeland in a pending trial.
Ebenezer Clark brings new shipyard to Three Rivers area
Pascagoula was officially created on February 9, 1838. The community name divided and took different names over the years. When the railroad came to town in 1870, the community grew around the railroad depot and in 1871was named for a Mr. Scranton, railroad engineer.
John Grant invested $100,000 of his own money, built a dredge that he designed, and had a six foot pass completed by the fall of 1839 which stretched from Mobile Bay into the Mississippi Sound.
Captain John Grant dredges the east side of the Pascagoula River establishing shipping and Pascagoula's modern day riverfront.
Harrison County was created in 1841 from a cut from the western part of Jackson County as well as a portion of the eastern part of Hancock County.
This property covered an area from the Country Club and Pascagoula Beach Park area east to Bayou Casotte
Forts Lake community thrives with sawmill
Around 1850, the Forts Lake community was thriving with sawmills.
Category 3 Hurricane hits gulf Coast with highest flood known since 1772
This is the future Ocean Springs
Henry Ehlers opens first post office in Escatawpa.
Escatawpa became officially known when Henry Ehlers opened the first post office there.
The new lighthouse cost $7,130.97 and was fitted with a fourth order Fresnel lens, giving it a vasitbility of 12 to 14 miles.
Mississippi seceded from the Union on January 9, 1861 and A.E. Lewis was Jackson County's delegate to the Secession Convention.
"After landing at East Pascagoula on December 15 with three thousand infantrymen, Granger began his march to Mobile. He asked Canby to allow him to use Davidson's cavalrymen, who had just arrived at West Pascagoula, so that he could try to destroy part of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
On April 9, 1863, a company of 160 Black soldiers stationed at Ship Island, landed on Greenwood Island, drove back a defending force and hoisted a Federal flag over the East Pascagoula Hotel. They were later driven off by Confederate forces from Mobile.
In November 1870 the New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad began service to Pascagoula where a Western Union station and depot were built near Delmas Avenue.
Fires on Aug. 28, 1873 and March 1, 1875 destroyed Courthouse records
An epidemic of Yellow Fever sweeps across the Coast leading to the formation of the first Board of Health in 1877.
"The Star of Pascagoula" newspaper was established in Scranton. In 1878 it was changed to "Democrat Star."
Considered to be the beginning of the development of the modern port. That year Congress appropriated $100,000 for a lighthouse, a customs house and dredging of the harbor and declared Pascagoula a Port of Delivery.
Scranton Academy opened at the corner of School and Pascagoula Streets.
A new courthouse was constructed and finished in Nov. 1878 on Delmas and Magnolia Streets.
Due to the persistence of Yellow fever, a Board of Health was established and a quarantine physician appointed.
The first bank was chartered by W.H. Brumble in 1882, two years later the Scranton Bank was opened by H.F. Krebs.
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