Jackson
township was named after President Andrew Jackson. In its present
limits it has existed as a township since 1850. Its first settlers were
under the jurisdiction of Cool Spring township. The Zahnisers, who
settled in the township in 1796, Peter Wilson, the Revolutionary
soldier, Thomas Hosack, an officer in the war of 1812, founded
families that were identified with all the subsequent history of the
township or county. Using the waters of Mill Creek, Peter Wilson built
a mill whose slow-turning wheel ground the grists of the early
settlers. For the past thirty-five years a railroad has traversed the
township, and since then the hills have produced abundant stores of
coal and some of the most enterprising citizens of the township have
been engaged in that industry.
Jackson
Center has been a village since the forties [1840s], when a school, a
church, a store, a tavern, a mill, and several other shops became the
nucleus around which people lived town-wise. A postoffice was
established in 1852, and was known by the name of Satterfield until
1876. Jackson Center was incorporated as a borough June 5, 1882.
Source: Twentieth
Century History of Mercer County, 1909, page 154 - 155
Jackson Cemeteries
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Pleasant Hill Cemetery Presbyterian Cemetery Zahnizer Cemetery | Cottage Methodist Episcopal Cumberland Presbyterian | Jackson Center Satterfield Shandagan Willowbrook |
Jackson Census Records |
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