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  Lake Jackson, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lake Jackson is a city located in Brazoria County, Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown Metropolitan Area.
Lake Jackson is named after an oxbow lake of the same name on the outskirts of town.
The lake in turn was named after the family whose antebellum plantation house sat alongside the lake; only very minor ruins of the building can now be seen in a park at the site.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Jackson,_Texas   (516 words)

  
 Lake Jackson, Texas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The city is named after an (A crescent-shaped lake (often temporary) that is formed when a meander of a river is cut off from the main channel) oxbow lake of the same name on the outskirts of town.
The lake in turn was named after the family whose (additional info and facts about antebellum) antebellum plantation house sat alongside the lake; only very minor ruins of the building can now be seen in a park at the site.
The City of Lake Jackson was incorporated March 14 1944, and voted for (Self-government in local matters by a city or county that is part of a national government) home rule ten years later in 1954.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lake_jackson,_texas.htm   (587 words)

  
 Lake Jackson Aquatic Preserve Information Page
The Lake Jackson, Carr Lake and Mallard Pond ecosystem is a valuable biological, aesthetic and recreational resource of Leon County and the State of Florida.
Lake Jackson is a shallow, flat bottomed water body with two major depressions or sink holes, approximately 28-feet in depth.
Water levels and circulation in Lake Jackson are dependent on the measure of inflow in correlation to outflow in the surface area.
www.dep.state.fl.us /coastal/sites/lakejackson/info.htm   (1929 words)

  
 Jackson Lake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jackson Lake lies nestled in the heart of the unglaciated hill country of southeastern Ohio.
Two miles west of the town of Oak Hill, Jackson Lake is situated in one of the most picturesque regions of the state.
In 1938, Jackson Lake was impounded and the area was operated by the predecessor of the Department of Natural Resources.
www.ohioparks.net /jacksonlake   (1053 words)

  
 Lake Jackson
Descendants of John Jackson, oldest son of Abner and Margaret Jackson, tour the ruins open house held during the Texas Archeological Society of field school.
On the lush banks of a tranquil lake on the upper Texas Gulf coast, the crumbled ruins of brick buildings are all that remain of a once thriving plantation.
Built by Abner Jackson and his wife, Margaret, in 1844, the Lake Jackson Plantation became one of the most profitable sugar refineries in the state.
www.texasbeyondhistory.net /jackson   (766 words)

  
 Lake Jackson - Plantation History
Lake Jackson is an oxbow lake formed from a cut-off meander of the Brazos River.
By all accounts, the Lake Jackson Plantation was an elegant complex with a columned, colonial style main house, brick outbuildings, ornamental gardens, and a state-of-the-art sugar mill.
Jackson asked his children and stepson not to claim their share of their mother's estate because he wanted to continue expansion.
www.texasbeyondhistory.net /jackson/history.html   (1441 words)

  
 Lake Jackson
Lake Jackson, one of the earliest reservoirs in Georgia, was formed in 1910 when the Central Georgia Power Company completed a dam and hydroelectric plant at Lloyd Shoals on the Ocmulgee River.
Lake Jackson covers approximately 4,750 acres and has 135 miles of shoreline.
Lake Jackson is surrounded by Jasper, Newton and Butts Counties.
www.monticelloga.org /site/page711.html   (80 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: LAKE JACKSON, TX
Lake Jackson is an incorporated residential community ten miles upriver from the mouth of the Brazos River in south central Brazoria County.
The 3000-acre sugar and cotton plantation of Abner Jackson
The Brazosport Center for the Arts and Sciences in Lake Jackson offers an art gallery, two theaters, a museum of natural science, and a nature center and planetarium, while the city maintains a number of parks, including Wilderness Park, a large undeveloped area that extends to the bank of the Brazos.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/hel3.html   (544 words)

  
 Lake Jackson/Tallahassee Weather Observatory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Lake Jackson Tallahassee Florida weather station is a creation to provide boaters and other marine interests on Lake Jackson UNOFFICIAL information on the current and forecast wind and weather conditions in the Lake Jackson area.
The live data is received via an anemometer mounted 60 feet above the Lake's waters on a hill on the eastern shore of the lake.
The researchers at the Lake Jackson Weather Observatory have put together a research report based on years of summertime precipitation coverage analysis coupled with observations of low-level wind flow and seabreeze evolution.
tfn.net /~path/lakewind.htm   (654 words)

  
 New Developments
The Lake Jackson Ecopassage Alliance is very disappointed with the CRTPA and their lack of action on an item that should have been approved with unanimous consent.
The Leon County Commission voted unanimously to negotiate a contract with Kimley-Horn and Associates to conduct the Lake Jackson Ecopassage Feasibility Study, to execute a Joint Project Agreement between Leon County and the Florida Department of Transportation, and to amend the County budget to include funds allocated by FDOT for the Lake Jackson Ecopassage project.
A press release was issued by the Lake Jackson Ecopassage Alliance announcing the unanimous approval of the Lake Jackson Ecopassage Feasibility Study Scope of Services by the Tallahassee-Leon County Metropolitan Planning Organizations.
www.lakejacksonturtles.org /newdevelopments.htm   (7931 words)

  
 Lake Jackson on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI'S DOUBLE PLAY Two teams, one metro area: Mississippi capital, neighbor city of Pearl are fielding minor- league teams on opposite sides of a river.
Videotape gave jurors final impression of Jackson accuser
Remarks on the 75th anniversary of women's suffrage in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/LakeJ1ack.asp   (316 words)

  
 Buckeye Lake State Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Buckeye Lake, constructed as a canal feeder lake in 1826, is Ohio's oldest state park.
When the lake was impounded in 1826, Cranberry Bog broke loose from the bottom and became a floating island which may conceivably be the only one of its kind in the world.
Because of their location, areas such as St. Marys, Indian Lake, Lake Loramie, Guilford and Buckeye lakes were to be developed as part of the project.
www.dnr.state.oh.us /parks/parks/buckeye.htm   (1066 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: JACKSON, ABNER
Jackson may have come to Texas in 1838 and planted a crop on the Trinity River.
Jackson also had children by his mistress Rosa, who was of Indian and fl ancestry.
His name is continued only by that of the town of Lake Jackson, which stands of his former plantation.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/JJ/fja29.html   (476 words)

  
 Lake Jackson Ecopassage
Lake Jackson is a 4000-acre sinkhole lake in northwestern Florida located 7 miles north of Tallahassee, FL in the Ochlockonee River basin.
US Highway 27 is a four-lane highway that was built directly across a 3/4-mile portion of northwest Lake Jackson, isolating part of the lake to the west now known as Little Lake Jackson.
Map of Lake Jackson and Little Lake Jackson bisected by US Highway 27 showing location of temporary fences and migration pathways of turtles and other wildlife.
www.lakejacksonturtles.org   (3752 words)

  
 Lake Jackson, Florida
Lake Jackson is one of Florida's disappearing lakes, lakes with sinkholes that are known to drain periodically.
Lake Jackson, for example, has drained 4 times previously in the 20th century, in 1907, 1933, 1957, 1982 and now in 1999.
Here are pics of ex-Lake Jackson in no particular order; pics include some taken on that fateful day in September 1999 (even though they're mis-dated as 2002), and some taken 3 years later, in September 2002.
aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu /depguys.html   (340 words)

  
 Lakejacksonva.com Welcome
Lake Jackson is a small community located in Northern Virginia's Prince William County, approximately 30 miles from Washington D.C..
This 800 acre community surrounds a 12 mile long lake formed by the damming of a branch of the Occoquan River.
This "unofficial" website is intended to serve as an information source and discussion area for the residents of the Lake Jackson community.
www.lakejacksonva.com   (186 words)

  
 Unofficial Lake Jackson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
JACKSON LAKE, GEORGIA - Lake Jackson is 44 miles SE of Atlanta in a rural area situated within parts of 3 counties.
The lake dam was built in 1910 and electricity was originally generated for Macon, GA.
Relative to others in the state, it is a smaller lake which still generates electricity and provides a location for watersports such as boating, skiing and fishing.
www.jackson-lake.com   (139 words)

  
 Lake Jackson, Texas
Lake Jackson was founded and developed by the Dow Chemical Co. as a housing project for its employees during 1941-1942.
It was named for a small lake in the vicinity of a plantation owned by Major Abner Jackson before the Civil War.
Ruins of eight buildings subject of study at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the Brazosport Archeological Society.
www.lnstar.com /mall/txtrails/lakejackson.htm   (306 words)

  
 Colorado State Parks
Once known primarily for the hunting around its banks, Jackson Lake State Park has become one of Colorado's finest outdoor recreation and water sports sites.
A wide variety of activities such as boating, waterskiing, fishing and swimming can all be enjoyed on the 2,700 surface-acre lake.
Jackson Lake also has 260 campsites and 60 picnic sites for your enjoyment.
parks.state.co.us /?parkID=65&action=park   (586 words)

  
 Stonewall Jackson Lake
Stonewall Jackson Lake is looking for a volunteer or volunteer group to check blue bird boxes in the park.
The lake is located in Lewis County, West Virginia, an area rich in history and Appalachian tradition.
The remaining lands and the lake are leased to, and managed by, the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources as a public hunting and fishing area and Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park, respectively.
www.lrp.usace.army.mil /rec/lakes/stonewal.htm   (483 words)

  
 Click2Houston.com - Health - Vision Loss Doesn't Deter Lake Jackson Man From Hobby
LAKE JACKSON, Texas -- For Eddie Nevill, details are formed through fingertips and perfected by knowledge.
The Lake Jackson resident can't see more than three feet ahead from his left eye.
She spoke on behalf of her son at a recent Lake Jackson City Council meeting, when council members approved, 3-2, a zoning ordinance exemption concerning businesses in homes.
www.click2houston.com /health/5276816/detail.html   (767 words)

  
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The turtles cross the highway between Lake Jackson, a 4,000-acre sinkhole seven miles north of Tallahassee, and Little Lake Jackson, a much smaller lake created when the road was built in the 1950s.
"Lake Jackson was one large body of water, and they built a road through it.
Editor's note: A few days after this story was published in the Tallahassee Democrat, the Leon County Commission voted to try to get money from the state and federal governments to build underground passageways to allow animals to cross U.S. 27 under the highway instead of risking their lives on the road.
www.fsu.edu /~fstime/FS-Times/volume8/nov02web/16nov02.html   (609 words)

  
 Welcome to Capitol News Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lake Jackson, near Tallahassee, used to be one of the nation's premier bass fishing locations.
A nearby lake sits on the other side of US Highway 27.
Aresco is using the data is collecting on the turtles for his work in his doctoral program.
www.flanews.com /archives2000/61200bio.htm   (233 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science -- Conservationists seek to protect Jackson Lake snail
JACKSON, Wyo. – A coalition of scientists and conservationists have petitioned for federal protection of a rare freshwater snail living in Jackson Lake.
The snail is related to other endangered snails, including the Idaho springsnail, the Harney Lake springsnail and the Columbia springsnail, according to a recent study.
"The science clearly shows the Jackson Lake, Harney Lake, Columbia, and Idaho springsnails are all threatened with extinction," said Peter Bowler, a University of California ecologist, who has studied springsnails for over 25 years.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/science/20040730-1430-wst-snailprotection.html   (267 words)

  
 Lake Jackson News
On a low tide, the banks of Sabine Lake's East Pass are usually dark brown, revealing the influence of the convergence of two murky, silt-laden rivers.
LAKE JACKSON, Texas Aug 21, 2005, Drug-maker Merck & Co.'s blistering defeat in the nation's first Vioxx trial was only round one in a series of expected court battles in the coming months, many of them...
On a perfect sunny day, Lake Jackson is a world away from the Sumatran Coast where a terrifying earthquake killed hundreds of people Monday.
www.topix.net /city/lake-jackson-tx   (1061 words)

  
 About FPC:
Since erecting the first church building in the new city of Lake Jackson in 1946, First Presbyterian has grown in leaps and bounds much like the community it serves.
The First Presbyterian Church of Lake Jackson was organized by the Presbytery of Brazos of the Presbyterian Church, U.S., on March 10, 1946.
The new facility which was designed for worship and study was the first building constructed by a worshiping congregation in Lake Jackson.
www.fpc-lj.org /aboutfpc.htm   (411 words)

  
 Jackson Lake State Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Area Attractions Rugged hills and mist-filled valleys provide a colorful backdrop for Jackson Lake State Park.
The Leo Petroglyph State Memorial, three miles north of U.S. 35 on County Road 28 northwest of Coalton, is a 12-acre site featuring well-preserved rock carvings cut into sandstone by prehistoric Indians.
Lake Katharine State Nature Preserve near the town of Jackson contains several fine examples of bigleaf and umbrella magnolias.
www.dnr.state.oh.us /parks/parks/jacksonl.htm   (1103 words)

  
 Lake Jackson/Mid County Lions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Mid County/Lake Jackson Lions was founded in 1977 by civic minded individuals in the mid county area.
We first called ourselves the Lake Jackson Lions because we met at the old restaurant at the dam and because most of us came from the surrounding area, but recently with a high rate of growth in the mid county we have renamed the club to better reflect the area we serve.
The Lake Jackson/Mid County Lions have a small area on the southern side of the intersection of Hoadly and Dumfries Roads.
www.pwcweb.com /mcljlions   (961 words)

  
 Columbia Lakes Resort, Conference Center, and Country Club
Nestled within 2,000 wooded acres in the heart of South Texas, Columbia Lakes is a year-round destination located less than one hour from Houston.
Featured amenities include an 18-hole, 7,000-yard golf course weaving throughout numerous tall Texas oak trees and crystal-clear lakes, an 8-court championship tennis complex, and a 300-acre lake stocked with Trophy Bass for your fishing pleasure.
Columbia Lakes is the perfect setting for your next corporate retreat, conference, or much deserved vacation.
www.columbia-lakes.com   (94 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Lake Jackson, Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Lake Jackson Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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