Editing Jackson County, West Virginia (section)

===Postwar development===
Many former Virginians from the [[Clinch River]] Valley in southwest Virginia settled in the area by 1877, so the Bruen Lands Feud (also known as the Roane County Land Wars, which began with the death of a War of 1812 veteran circa 1845, leaving heirs in New York State, and was the subject of the 1864 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Harvey v. Tyler)<ref>69 U.S. 328</ref> reached Jackson county and led to several murders.<ref>{{Cite web |title=e-WV {{!}} The Bruen Lands Feud |url=https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/672 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110227152102/http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/672 |archive-date=February 27, 2011}}</ref> The brother of a murdered U.S. Deputy Marshall published an account.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Memoirs of Daniel W. Cunningham: The Criminal History of Roane and Jackson Counties, West Virginia |url=https://sites.rootsweb.com/~varussel/families/cunningham.html}}</ref>

Timbering and oil and gas operations caused Jackson County's population to rise to 19,000 in 1900; it had the 6th largest area of cultivatable land of all West Virginia counties (divided mainly into small farms, hence by 1997 it also had the second largest number of farms in West Virginia).<ref name="wvencyclopedia.org" />
Kaiser Aluminum built a smelting and manufacturing complex beginning in 1954 that became a major employer in Jackson county. It changed hands several times after 1988 and experienced a major strike in the 1990s. The aluminum plant closed in 2015, although the rolling mill (under separate ownership since 2003 and which also changed ownership several times) still operates.<ref name="wvencyclopedia.org" />

The [[Cedar Lakes Conference Center]] was also established circa 1954 and still operates (now through the U.S. Department of Agriculture), as does a Baptist conference center serving approximately 700 churches. The Jackson County Maritime and Industrial Complex encompasses 159 acres, including 25 acres devoted to barge loading and unloading.<ref name="wvencyclopedia.org" />