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==History== Prior to the establishment of Jackson, the townsite of Old St. John's was settled approximately 1.5 miles north of the current site of Jackson on June 2, 1856, by a [[Catholicism|Catholic]] colony of sixty Irish immigrants led by Father Trecy. The colony was one of the first towns settled in [[Dakota County, Nebraska|Dakota County]], and the first Catholic parish in Nebraska. When the rising [[Missouri River]] began to threaten the town around 1860, all of the residents of Old St. John's moved south to what is now known as Jackson.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/markers/texts/st_johns_1856.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040702232050/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/markers/texts/st_johns_1856.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=July 2, 2004|title=St. John's, 1856|website=www.nebraskahistory.org|access-date=October 24, 2016}}</ref> Jackson was originally called Franklin, and under the latter name was laid out in about 1860.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=InM_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA106 | title=History of Hamilton and Clay Counties, Nebraska, Volume 1 | publisher=S.J. Clarke Publishing Company | author=Burr, George L. | year=1921 | pages=106}}</ref> When it was discovered there was another post office in the state with the name Franklin, the community was renamed in honor of [[Andrew Jackson]] in order to avoid repetition.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/dakota/jackson/ | title=Jackson, Dakota County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=August 7, 2014}}</ref>
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