Editing Jackson, Kentucky (section)

==History==
Upon the creation of Breathitt County in 1839, local landowner Simon Cockrell Sr. donated {{convert|10|acre}} to serve as its seat of government. The community was originally known as '''Breathitt''', '''Breathitt Town''', or '''Breathitt Court House''' after the county, but upon its incorporation as a city by the [[Kentucky Assembly|state legislature]] in 1843,<ref name=sos>Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Jackson, Kentucky". Accessed 1 August 2013.</ref> it was renamed Jackson to honor [[list of U.S. presidents|former president]] [[Andrew Jackson]].<ref name=ren>Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&pg=PA151 p. 151]. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Accessed 1 August 2013.</ref><ref name=kenky>''The Kentucky Encyclopedia'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=8eFSK4o--M0C&pg=PA459 p. 459]. "Jackson". University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1992. Accessed 1 August 2013.</ref>

Local feuds led the national press to publish stories about Jackson and "Bloody Breathitt": state troops were dispatched twice in the 1870s and again in 1903 {{ndash}} after the assassination of U.S. Commissioner James B. Marcum on the courthouse steps<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.breathittcounty.com/Marcum1.html|title=ShotDown|website=breathittcounty.com|access-date=13 April 2017|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512154517/http://www.breathittcounty.com/Marcum1.html}}</ref> {{ndash}} to restore order.<ref name=kenky/>

The [[Kentucky Union Railroad]] reached the city in 1891, and Jackson boomed until the [[Louisville and Nashville Railroad|L&N]] continued the line on to [[Hazard, Kentucky|Hazard]] in 1912. A fire on [[Halloween]], 1913, burned down much of the town.<ref name=kenky/>