The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Jackson (Ohio)

JACKSON, Ohio, city, county-seat of Jackson County; on Salt Creek, and on branches of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, the Hocking Valley railroads, and on main line Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railway, about 100 miles east of Cincinnati and 70 miles southeast of Columbia. Jackson is located in the vicinity of the early routes of travel from the Ohio River to the interior of what is now the State of Ohio, and on to the Great Lakes. The first permanent settlement was made in 1795, but it was not incorporated until 1847, several years after the limits of Ohio were decided. It is situated in a coal and iron mining section, but there is a large amount of good farming land in the vicinity. The chief industrial establishments of the city are foundries, machine-shops, furnaces, woolen-mills, a tannery and lumber yards. The coal and iron ore-mining of the vicinity contributes largely to the industrial wealth of the city. Pop. 5,468.