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We would like to provide the residents of  Jacksonville  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Jacksonville Home page. The Jacksonville Home page provides as much information as possible on Jacksonville. Knowing Jacksonville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Jacksonville’s Home page, you will also find Jacksonville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Jacksonville has a population of 2883. 43.5% of Jacksonville’s inhabitants are Male, and 56.5 are female. 52.8% of Jacksonville is married and 53.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $475,266, and the average rent is $1,419. Household median income in Jacksonville is $87,438, and the individual median income is $36,695. Jacksonville’s Ethnic is the following: White(93.3%), Hispanic(2.5%), Pacific(2.4%), Black(1.9%), Asian(1.6%), Multiple(0.7%).


Jacksonville was founded following discovery of gold deposits in 1851–1852. With the creation of Jackson County, it became the county seat, a role which was transferred to nearby Medford in 1927. Jacksonville was home to the first Chinatown in Oregon, founded by immigrants from San Francisco. Physical evidence of this chapter of history was uncovered early in March 2004 when road work uncovered artifacts dating to the 1850s and 1860s.


Construction was halted while archeologists performed four days of rescue excavations. Their findings included broken Chinese bowls and tea cups, handmade bottles, and fragments of opium paraphernalia and Chinese coins. As the gold deposits were worked out in the 1860s and the railway bypassed Jacksonville in 1884, the city's economy slowed.


This had the unintended benefit of preserving a number of structures, which led to Jacksonville's being designated a National Historic District in 1966, covering over 100 buildings. It was cited as a "mid-19th century inland commercial city significant for its magnificent group of surviving unaltered commercial and residential buildings.


The city was the principal financial center of southern Oregon until it was bypassed by the Oregon and California Railroad."


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