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Jackson grew rapidly during the antebellum period, with several prominent lawyers, merchants, and physicians making their home there. McKendree Chapel, a [[Methodist]] log church, was erected in 1819, the first church built by the denomination in Missouri and the oldest surviving [[Protestant]] church west of the [[Mississippi River]]. Also in 1819, the ''Missouri Herald'', Missouri's third newspaper, began to be printed in Jackson. Despite such setbacks as two cholera epidemics (in 1833 and 1852), the disorders of the [[Civil War]], and a fire that destroyed the courthouse in 1870 (a new one would be built later that year, with the third and current one completed in 1908), the town's development continued into the late 19th century. In 1884, a branch of the Iron Mountain railroad was extended to Jackson, connecting it more rapidly with the rest of Southeast Missouri. That same year, the town voted to incorporate as a fourth-class city. A 1912 account described Jackson as having a population of 2,105, some 50 businesses including two flour mills and several factories, a good public school system, several large churches, and two newspapers (one English-speaking, one German).<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=G-AlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA261#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref>
Jackson grew rapidly during the antebellum period, with several prominent lawyers, merchants, and physicians making their home there. McKendree Chapel, a [[Methodist]] log church, was erected in 1819, the first church built by the denomination in Missouri and the oldest surviving [[Protestant]] church west of the [[Mississippi River]]. Also in 1819, the ''Missouri Herald'', Missouri's third newspaper, began to be printed in Jackson. Despite such setbacks as two cholera epidemics (in 1833 and 1852), the disorders of the [[Civil War]], and a fire that destroyed the courthouse in 1870 (a new one would be built later that year, with the third and current one completed in 1908), the town's development continued into the late 19th century. In 1884, a branch of the Iron Mountain railroad was extended to Jackson, connecting it more rapidly with the rest of Southeast Missouri. That same year, the town voted to incorporate as a fourth-class city. A 1912 account described Jackson as having a population of 2,105, some 50 businesses including two flour mills and several factories, a good public school system, several large churches, and two newspapers (one English-speaking, one German).<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=G-AlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA261#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref>
The city's growth, which remained steady through the early 20th century, accelerated following the expansion of the Jackson public school district in 1954, which subsequently encompassed most of central Cape County,<ref>https://dnr.mo.gov/shpo/survey/CGAS003-R.pdf</ref> and the construction of Interstate 55 in the 1960s, which passed just east of town. Following this, the business district shifted southeast, as many companies wished to be closer to the interstate traffic, and many Cape Girardeau residents moved to the Jackson vicinity, using it as a suburb of sorts. It grew especially rapidly during the 1970s and 1990s, during which it passed the 10,000 mark for the first time.
In 2011, Jackson was ranked the 59th most livable small town in the United States by [[CNN]]'s Money Magazine. It has also received highly positive evaluations from ''Missouri Life'' magazine and other organizations.<ref>http://www.jacksonmo.org/Information-Center/Community-Profile/</ref>
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