This was the beginning of todayвЂ™s downtown Jackson. Butler, 54 acres were surveyed and divided into 104 lots. In August of 1822, under the leadership of Dr. Some would stop and stay, while others would move on until the entire continent was settled. It was this desire that brought the first settlers into West Tennessee and the first of a continuing movement of people who would follow them. However, another Tennessee town was already named Alexandria so the name was changed to honor Andrew Jackson.Д¬an you imagine how much courage it took to follow Indian or wild animal trails, moving your family through the wilderness to a new land? The urge to do so is what historians call Manifest Destiny a restless desire to move on, see what lies ahead and see what you have never seen before. One of the settlers in the group was a land grant surveyor named Adam Rankin Alexander. The next year, four more families arrived and settled near the Forked Deer River where the West Tennessee Agricultural Center sits today. The first three families moved into Madison County in 1819, settling east of Jackson near where Lake Graham sits today. Three years later, a group of surveyors from North Carolina came into West Tennessee to locate and survey land grants. Research shows that Daniel Boone did pass through Jackson on a hunting trip. Just north of Jackson is a large beech tree with вЂњD. The first white men to come to West Tennessee were hunters and federal land surveyors. The Chickasaws and their ancestors had lived here for more than ten thousand years! Traces of their village can still be found in places like Pinson and Denmark. This was once the hunting grounds of the Chickasaw Indians. It started long ago, even before we arrived. We are 200 years old, and itвЂ™s been quite a journey. LetвЂ™s cut the cake, turn loose the balloons and tell the band to play.

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