About Jackson County
Jackson County is a county with a population of 48,985. Its county seat is Marianna, but it also includes Alford, Bascom, Campbellton, Cottondale, Graceville, Grand Ridge, Greenwood, Jacob City, Malone, and Sneads. Jackson County was created in 1822 and named for Andrew Jackson, who was not only the general in the War of 1812, but also the first territorial governor of Florida and seventh President of the United States. In 1981, Jackson County challenged George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, for containing procommunist and explicitly sexual material. Jackson County has a total area of 955 square miles, of which 4.08 square miles is water. |