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Jackson is a city in and the county seat of Amador County, in California's Mother Lode Gold Country at the junction of Highways 49 and 88.

Jackson was founded in 1848 around a year-round spring on the road between Sacramento and the Southern Mines, and its first name was Botilleas - from 'botellas,' Spanish for bottles, after the empties travelers left by the spring.

The camp was renamed for Colonel Alden Appolas Moore Jackson, a local lawyer who was popular with the miners.

By 1850 Jackson had an estimated 1,500 residents and had become an important supply and transportation center for the surrounding mining towns.

Jackson served as the Calaveras County seat in 1851-52 and then, in 1854, became the seat of newly created Amador County.

Fire nearly destroyed Jackson twice - in 1855 and again on August 23, 1862, when almost the whole town burned in under three hours - but it rebuilt each time, increasingly in brick.

The Kennedy Mine, which began operating in 1860 on a gold vein discovered by Andrew Kennedy in 1856, was one of Jackson's richest mines; when it closed in 1942 it was the deepest gold mine in North America, at 5,912 feet.

On August 27, 1922, a fire in the neighboring Argonaut Mine trapped and killed 47 miners - the worst mining disaster in California history.

Jackson's most famous landmarks are the Kennedy Tailing Wheels - four wooden wheels 58 feet in diameter, built in 1914 to lift mine waste over the hills to an impound dam - now preserved in Kennedy Tailing Wheels Park.

In 1894 Jackson's Serbian miners built St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, regarded as the mother church of Serbian Orthodoxy in North America.