Editing Jackson's Gap, Alabama (section)

==History==
Jackson's Gap was named for a local settler in the early 19th century.<ref>[[Encyclopedia of Alabama]]: [http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-3517 Jackson's Gap], accessed January 2015</ref> The town got its name after a man erected a cabin and traded with the Creeks and local settlers and travelers, possibly in the 1810s or 1820s. Some time after , a fellow named Patterson established a blacksmith shop there, and more settlers began to arrive from Georgia and South Carolina in the 1830s.