Editing Jackson County, Indiana (section)

==History==
Jackson County was formed in 1816. It was named after General [[Andrew Jackson]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n166 167]}}</ref>

Jackson County was the site of the first recorded [[train robbery]] of a moving train in the United States. On October 6, 1866, the [[Reno Gang]] robbed an [[Ohio and Mississippi Railway]] train, making off with over $10,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=VideoArticle&id=51742 |title=This Day in History 1866: First U.S. Train robbery |access-date=October 6, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419044438/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=VideoArticle&id=51742 |archive-date=April 19, 2009 }}</ref>

Jackson County has the second longest 3-span [[covered bridge]] in the world; [[Medora Covered Bridge|The Medora Covered Bridge]]. After a recent project to completely refurbish the Medora Covered Bridge, the nearby town of Medora now holds an annual event at the bridge. The bridge is open for pedestrian traffic and site-seers. Another long neglected covered bridge, the [[Bells Ford Bridge]], believed to have been the last remaining [[Post Truss]] bridge in the world, succumbed to neglect, collapsing into the [[White River (Indiana)|White River]] on January 2, 2006.