4,844
61%
$55,485
17.7%
America/Los_Angeles
95642
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Jackson, CA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Jackson a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Jackson Home page. The Jackson Home page provides as much information as possible on Jackson. Knowing Jackson’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Jackson’s Home page, you will also find Jackson’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Jackson has a population of 4844. 46.6% of Jackson’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.4 are female. 50.5% of Jackson is married and 60.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $271,678, and the average rent is $1,049. Household median income in Jackson is $55,485, and the individual median income is $26,125. Jackson’s Ethnic is the following: White(88.5%), Hispanic(12.1%), Multiple(7.1%), Other(2.3%), Asian(1.5%), Black(0.4%), Pacific(0.2%).
Jackson, named after Colonel Alden Jackson, was founded in 1848 around a year-round spring. Settlement of the region by American pioneers was stimulated by the discovery of gold in the Sierra foothills around 1848. The settlement was named for a local lawyer who was liked by miners named Alden Appola Moore Jackson.
Although Amador County was an important mining center, its county seat of Jackson was not typical of the early gold camps. The camp grew quickly, as besides being a popular mining spot, it was also a convenient stopping place on the road from Sacramento to the Southern Mines. The camp became an important supply and transportation center for the neighboring towns, and by 1850, its population had reached an estimated 1,500.
Jackson grew first as a watering hole for cattle, then as one of the earliest and most durable of the mother lode's hard rock mining areas. In 1853, Jackson became the county seat of newly formed Amador County, California. Previously, from 1851 to 1852, it had been the county seat of Calaveras County. Placer mining gave out by the 1860s, replaced by hard rock mining.
One of the town's most prominent historical landmarks, the Kennedy Mine, began operation in 1860; at the time of its closure during World War II in 1942, it was the deepest gold mine in North America, at 1802 m (5912 ft). On August 27, 1922, 47 miners became trapped when a fire broke out in the Argonaut mine.
All 47 men died in the fire, but the last body was not recovered until over a year later. The Argonaut mine incident was the worst gold mine disaster in US history. In October 1942, the US government passed the War Production Board Limitation Order, which signaled the demise of gold mining in California.
The government needed men for the war and gold was not considered a strategic war metal.
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