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 | | It is the principal city of and is included in the Jackson, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in included in the Jackson-Humboldt, Tennessee Combined Statistical Area. |
 | | The Tennessee Supreme Court is required to meet in Jackson, in part because in the 1870s when the state constitution was written, Memphis had been depopulated by yellow fever epidemics, and Jackson was the largest city in West Tennessee. |
 | | Jackson was home to Casey Jones, the Illinois Central engineer who, before colliding with a stalled freight train near Vaughn, Mississippi, told his fireman to jump to safety but himself died at the throttle, saving the lives of his passengers. |
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