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Jackson is the county seat of Jackson County, founded in 1829 and named after President Andrew Jackson.

The town was first called Jacksonopolis, then Jacksonburgh, before its name was shortened to simply Jackson in 1838; it incorporated as a village in 1843 and as a city in 1857.

Jackson had 31,309 residents at the 2020 census and, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures, about 13,300 households.

Michigan's first state prison, Michigan State Prison, opened in Jackson in 1838 and remains in operation.

Jackson is one of the birthplaces of the Republican Party: on July 6, 1854, the first official meeting of the group that called itself "Republican" was held at an oak grove in Jackson known as "Under the Oaks," a site now marked in Under the Oaks City Park.

Jackson is nicknamed "The Rose City."

At the beginning of the 20th century, Jackson became an early automotive manufacturing center, drawing Southerners and immigrants to its many factories.

Jackson is the hometown of Tony Dungy, the first African American head coach to win a Super Bowl.

Jackson sits on Interstate 94 about 40 miles west of Ann Arbor and 35 miles south of Lansing, and it is the core city of a metropolitan area of about 160,000 people covering all of Jackson County.