AU 699 TR212 Participants: R. A. McLemore, William D. McCain, Charlotte Capers, Laura Harrell, Elbert Hilliard, Byrle Kynerd, Marc Ledbetter, Houston Jones, Skeets McWilliams
Title: Program script for Sesquicentennial-Jackson, Mississippi, 1972
/ . ?f2, . I 1- /~ I _ i r'1···· SESQUICENTENIAL -- JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI -- 1972 FOOTAGE DIAL VIDEO AUDI~ ~LK TO - ,1~ CICERO QUOTE MUSIC BACKGROUND MARC: 1972 MARKS' THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF JACKSON,
THE CAPITOL OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI~
027 DR. MCLEMORE WE THANK DR. R. A. McLEMORE A~D HIS STAFF AT THE MISS. DEPT. OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORy •••• 0;2 DR. MCCAIN DR. WILLIAM D. McCAIN ••••
0,)6 MISS CAPERS MISS CHARLOTTE CAPERS ••• 0,)9 MS HARRELL (2(..052 <,MS LAURA HARRELL ••• 044 MR. HILLIARD MR. ELBERT HILLIARD ••• i}
050 DR. KYNERD DR. BYRLE KYNERD, DIRECTO~~SSISSIPPI STATE HISTORICAL MUSUEM ••• r=O(t -r-~S\ft R,ESE-A;i.C\r(t,
057 MARC TIt-'\. YOUR HOST, MARC LEDBETTER ••~. \NT~Q!)uc'! N& ' 066 HOUSTON t~ ID£R AUDIO ENGINEER, HOUSTON JONES ••• 79 SKEETS
r-oss IBLE ••••
POCHJ)NTAS PLAGUE THE S'lTE ON WHICH JACKSON IS LOCATED \VAS FOR CENTURIES THE HOME OF UNIDENTIFIED CULTURES OF
PRE-HISTORIC INDIANS. NEARBY, THERE ARE
MOUNDS THAT ARE VISIBLE EVIDENCE OF THE OCOUPATION OF THE LAND BY THE INDIANS •••
AROHEOLOGISTS HAVE UWCOVERED ARTIFAOTS THAT
T'ELL S0)'1ETHINGABOUT HI S WAY OF LIFE.
121 TO LeFLUER'S BLUFF WAS ONE OF THE PROFITABLE POSTS TRADING WITH THE CHOOTAW INDIANS •••
ESTABLISHED ABOUT 1800 BY LOUIS LeFLUER, A
1,)9 to BLACK FRENOH CANADIAN AND FATHER OF GREENWOOD LeFLUEI ..,..-~ ;----
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ARROWS ON MAP MISSISSIPPI BECAME A STATE IN 1817, AND THE LOCATION OF THE CAPITOL WAS SHIFTED FROM •••
NATCHEZ ••
TO \fASHINGTON ••
TO COLUMBIA DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF STATEHOOI 152 TO BLACK DOAK'S DIORAMA THE INDIANS LOVED THIS LAND, BUT THE WHITE W/I.,v-t'e/( MAN ~8%ED IT. THE CHOCTAW INDIANS WERE
PERSUADED BY GEN. ANDREW JACKSON AND GEN.
THOMAS HINDS TO SIGN THE TREATY OF DOAK~
S!:AND ON OCTOBER 1, 1j20... YA-.J$I$
PUSHMATAHA, THE GREAT CHOCTAW CHIEFTAIN, WAS
RELUCTANT TO SIGN THE TREATY OF CESSION AND MADE A PATHETIC SPEECH IN WHICH HE DECLARED:
"WE iHLL NOW CONSI DER THE BOUNDARY AND THE aOUNTRY THE CHOCTAWS ARE TO GIVE TO YOU FOR 11 AND IF WE CAN AGREE UPON THAT, THE TRADE WILL
BE COMPLETED •••THESE BOUNDARIES INCLUDE A
VERY VALUABLE TRACT OF COUNTRY CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING CORN, WHEAT, COTTON AND ALL THE
211 TO BLACK CROPS THE WHITE MAN CULTIVATES. OKLHOt·iAMAP THE AGREEMENT THAT WAS REACHED PROVIDED THE CHOCTAWS WOULD. BE GIVEN LANDS IN INDIAN TERRITORY WEST OF THE MISS. RIVER) ALSO, IT WAS AGREED THAT THE UNITED STATES WOULD FURNISH EACH OF THOSE WHO CHOSE TO GO TO THE
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2;7 HINDS MAP ON FEBRUARY 12, 1821, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI ACTED TO ORGANIZE THIS NEW TERRITORY INTO HINDS COUNTY, AND
DESIGNATED A COMMITTEE COMPOSED OF THOMAS
HINDS, JAMES PATTON AND WILLIAM LATTIMORE, ••
TO LOCATE THE CAPITOL ~ WITHIN 20 MILES OF THE TRUE CENTER OF THE STATE, AND ON
A NAVIGABLE STREIM •••• POSSIBLY"1fHE BIG------BLACK.---- ~ Ne> PI7v5G ~. ~'wr. .•••..,..•....••-- ••'-.•~ .••.•..,.,.~
~i" ~ IN THE LATTER PART OF 1821 THE COMMISSIONERS DID NOT FIND A DESIRABLE LOCATION ON THE ~IS.W_11144.PIil"'-fn BIG BLACK, SO THEY
RETURNED TO LeFLUER'S BLUFF ••••THIS SITE MET
THEIR REQUIREMENTS FOR AN ELEVATED POSITION,
PURE WATER, WHOLESOME AIR, FERTILE SOIL, A NAVIGABLE STREAM AND THE ADVANTAGES OF PUBLIC 274 ROADS •••.•• J«KIIIXX~««I&XXXXXXXX
PUBLIC ROADS! 1972 AND A $600 MILLION DOLLAR 284 BOND ISSUE'??! WOW: vlHAT AN ADVANTAGE THEN! /
••••l"MIi) ••• atiiJl!i~ •• ,~~,~~
._"IJ~,~THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ' ..•• -:';-~.--"-'<" . ~9';,._l£j~~lIS!~
•••• IN--,.... COLUMBIA ON NOV. 5,.. 1821,_ -...... ,:c l\IJJ•••• iiY.,faD! &i'fIf!I.~,_M~~ AGREED LE~'-~I'(.~ B,-u~F .- CHART OF POP. THAT 'i!MlJ!jJ'5~i" BROUGHT THE CAPITOL NEARER - '.~:,i>.·."" _.~·-." ••••w•• •• ...~.. ,. _ .. !t!Ji ,*dJoll'Q:RPO
29; TO T~~~!1l.~~~~~!:
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29; ORIGIANAL ACT ON NOV. 28, 1821, THE LEGISLATURE ADOPTED AN
ACT PROVIDING FOR THE LOCATION OF THE CAPITOL
ON THE LEFLUER'S BLUFF SITE WITH A SUBSEQUENT
AMENDMENT NAMING THE EMBRYONIC CAPITOL OITY
JACKSON ~KSON IN HONOR OF GEN. ANDREW JACKSON WHO
WAS THE IDOL OF THE YOUNG REPUBLIC IN 1821 •••
THE LEGISLATURE ORDERED THE STATE OFFICES
MOVED TO JACKSON BY THE 4TH MONDAY OF
NOVEMBER:, 1822.
;14 VAN DORN MAP ON APRIL 26, 1822, PETER A. VAN DORN PRESENTEr THE FIRST MAP OF JACKSON USING THE" CHEOKER-
BOARD" LAYOUT SUGGESTED BY PRESIDENT
THOMAS JEFFERSON AS AN IDEAL CITY PLAN.
STREETS ORIGIXAL BOUNDARIES WERE THE BLUFFS, OR Sli1ATE STREET ON THE EAST •••• PAUSE HIGH STREET ON THE NORTH •••• P~S'tE WEST STREET ON THE WEST •••• p~..)"tC
AND SOUTH STREET ON THE SOUTH. PA,~'S G
SKYLINE IN THIS TRADITION, THE JACKSON OF TODAY PROUDLY GUARDS ITS TREES AND SMOOTH LAWNS •••
OTHER RESERVATION IN THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
MAP WERE COURT GREEN, COLLEGE GREEN AND
;74 TO BL~CK CAPITOL GREEN--THE ONLY
/ FIRST CAPITOL THIS TWO STORY BRICK BUILDING, ,0 X 40 FEET, WAS ERECTED BY B. M. HINES FOR THE
LEGISLATURE TO MEET IN AT THE FALL SESSION OF 182~••••
PLAQUE SEE THIS PLAQUE MARKING THE SITE OF THE FIRST
CAPITOL ON THE NORTH EAST CORNER OF CAPITOL AND PRESIDENT STREETS ••• ~.
OLD CAP THE FIRST CAPITOL WAS ERECTED AT A COST OF
$"OOO ••••~EMODELING OF THE OLD CAPITOL COST ,98 TO BLACK OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
TRACE ON THE NATCHEZ TRACE WAS A THRIVING COMMUNITY- CLINTON. JACKSON'S GROWTH WAS SO S&OW, WITH ONLY THREE LOTS SOLD BY 1828, PLANS WERE CAREFULLY PERFECTED FOR THE' ATTEMPT TO MOVE
THE CAPITOL TO CLINTON •••••
09 PART OF THE ~LAN WAS TO OFFER FREE USE OF THE BUILDING OF THE MISSISSIPPI ACADE:t-1NOY W KNOWN
AS ~iISSISSIPPI COLLEGE ••••• 'i-·i~.·
ARROWS-MAP IN 1829 THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RECEIVED SEVERAL PROPOSALS FROM OTHER CITIES ••••
VICKSBURG ••••• PORT GIBSON •••NO ACTION TAKEN.
MAP-20,OOO A PROPOSITION THAT THE CAPITOL OITY BE SSLD TO A GROUP OF PRIVATE OITIZENS FOR $20,000 DOLLAR
442 WAS REJEOTED. DUEL SCENE ~JIICL TO MOVE THE STATEHOUSE TO OLINTON WAS LOST BY A TIE VOTE •••JOHN B. PEYTON OF
RAYMOND WAS CHALLENGED TO A DUEL BY JUDGE ICE lm~~ ISSAC OALDWELL, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF opyright ./lU.S.Code). TRUSTEES OF MISS. ACA~EMY. THEY FOUGHT WITH
PIS~OLS AT 20 PACES AT THE RAYMOND ROAD 457 DUELLING GROUND ONE MILE BELOW OLINTON •••••• THERE WAS NO FATALITY •
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457 OLD CAP THE DECADE, 18,0 to 1840, WAS A PERIOD OF
GREAT GROWTH IN MISSISSIPPI •••THE CITY OF
JACKSON ENJOYED A HEALTHY GROWTH DURING THE
PERIOD BOASTING A TOTAL OF 2100 INHABITANTS. THE OLD CAPITOL WAS OCCUPIED IN 185~:;:HE FOLLOWING YEAR, 1840, ANDREW JACKSON ADDRESSEI THE LEGISLATURE HERE ON ITS COMPLETION.
481 MANSION APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS FOR THE CLASSIC
GOVERNOR'S MANSION OF GREEK REVIVAL ARCHITECT- URE WAS MADE IN 18", BUT WAS NOT COMPLETED
UNTIL 1842.
CITY HALL JACKSON'S DIGNIFIED GREEK REVIVAL CITY HALL
WAS BUILT IN 1848--S0 THE PROVISION OF THE
CONSTITUTION OF 18~2 THAT JACKSON WAS TO
REMAIN THE CAPITOL UNTIL 1850 ENCOURAGED PRIVATE CITIZENS TO CONSIDER AN INVESTMENT IN THE CAPITOL CITY A PERMANENT ONE •••••••
507 TRANSPORTATION A SERIOUS DRAWBACK TO THE LOCATION OF JACKSON IN THE EARLY DAYS WAS LACK OF TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. THE PEARL RIVER WAS NAVIGABLE ONLY A PORTION OF THE YEAR •••THEN CAME THE
RAILROAD IN 1857 AND JACKSON BECAME THE
JUNCTION OF TWO THRU RAILROADS •••THE MISS.
CENTRAL •••A ~OUTE FROM NEW ORLEANS TO JACKSON,
'1'ENN.,AND THE SOUTHERN •••VICKSBURG TO MERIDIA
A SIX HOUR ROUNDTRIP TO VICKSBURG $2 EACH WAY.
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555 BIBLE THE METHODISTS WERE THE FIRST RELIGIOUS GROUP TO ORGANIZE AND TO BUILD A CHURCH IN
JACKSON AS EARLY AS 1855~ AND USED THE ONLY AVA~LABLE PLACE FOR PREACHING ••• 555 OUSE OCCUPIED BY THE LEGISLATURE
CONSOL AM INS. IN 1856 WAS HELD TO RAISE FUNDS FOR
T~E BUILDING OF A BAPTIST CHURCH •••$800 DOLL AI ./" WAS RAISED AND THE CHURCH HOUSE ERECTED AT THE
CORNER OF NORTH WEST AND YAZOO STREETS, AND IS ONE OF THE FEW REMAINING STRUCTURES BUILT TAA'\ BEFORE THE CIVIL lvAR ~ STANDS.
i THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ORGANIZED IN THE S~1\TE HOUSE ON SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 185i. ~j:; I
576 SECESSION THE SECESSION CONVENTION MET JANUARY 7, 1861. Qft"Sf5.~ ;82 BELL ;"THE FIRE BELL WAS RUNG TO ANNOUNCE THAT "MISS. HAD BECOME A SOVEREIGN AND INDEPENDENT S~ATE.
FLAG THE. LADIES OF JACKSON BROUGHT INTO THE
CONVENTION THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG, -REPUTEDLY.-",,=-=.,...---- MADE BY MRS. HOMER A. SMITH, AND THAT NIGHT
HENRY MCARTHUR SANG FOR THE FIRST TI~m THE
SONG THAT MADE THE FLAG FAMOUS THROUGHOUT THE
CONFEDERACY. c 'CE AH Th'~ 602 WAR! r' 1~C..6NN 0 No ,1,oN B-=:e~S"'*M~5'E'" r - '''(; f-ht TH'E CIVIL WAR3).DEALTJACKSON A CRUEL BLOW ••••
JACKSON WAS INVADED FOUR DIFFERENT TIMES BY FEDERAL FORCES ••••THE FIRST TIME ON MAY 14,18~, ••••AGAIN ON JULY 9, 1865 ••. GEN. SHERMAN S
.·Uk REPORT TO GEN. us • GRANT, DATED J ULY18,
1865 ~ STATED: II WE HAVE MADE FI NE PROGRESS
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TODAY IN THE WORK OF DESTRUCTION. JACKSON WILL NO LONGER BE A POINT OF DANGER. THE LAN!
IS DEVASTATED FOR THIRTY MILES AROUND." ,.)r, fftv~rt
PEARL X 'NG TR~DITION HAS IT THAT SHERMAN UTTERED HIS
.REMARK: ' WAR IS HELL " IN JACKSON AS WAGON-
LOADS OF SUPPLIES FORCED A CROSSING OF PEARL RIVER.
VON SEUTER PAN IN THE SPRING OF 1865, JACKSON WAS RESTORED
TO ITS PLACE AS A SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. THOUGH RETARDED BY THE RAVAGES OF WAR, AND FACED
WITH THE TASK OF COMPLETELY REBUILDING A CITY} IN SPITE OF / JACKSON CONTINUED TO ~ROW/mNXXXI RECONSTRUCTI( - ~~~ I ------•••THE STRUGGLING CAPITOL SURVIVED THE INFAMOt :::=-- 671 'BLACK & TAN' CONVENTION OF 1868 ~6 DRIVE GOV. BENJAMIN G. HUMPHREYS FROM THE MANSION
IN 1868 •••OH} FOR THE TREAT¥1BNT GERMANY AND JAPAN RECEIVED!
MONUMENT IN 1887 JACKSON SOCIETY SPONSORED THE v .i!JI I BRILLIANT 'GREAT~S '. LIKE MARDI GRAS) 1\ LASTED FOR DAYS •••PROCEEDS PAID FOR OUR MONUME~T TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD AND WAS
UNVEILED JUNE 3, 1891. ~:,
710 NE\'l CAP UNTIL T·HE DECADE, 1900-1910, JACKSON iUS XI%%l LITTLE MORE THAN THE CENTER OF STATE GOV'T.
720 ·THE CHIEF FACTOR IN JACKSON'S POPULATION EXPLOSION - 8,000 to 21,000 - WAS THE ICE -:oay be DISCOVERY OF OUR FOREST RESOURCES BY THE yright ...J. Ced1'l). LUMBER INDUSTRIES OF THE NATION AND THOSE TO
726 INTER IT!
731 1915 PAN BETWEEN 1920 & 1930 JACKSON'-S--NP1JLAT~-- ~ WENT FROM 22,800 to 48,300 ••••
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IN 1930 JACKSON EMERGED AS THE DOMINANT CITY 755 OF MISSISSIPPI XMXXIElXXIl!NX • c' p~ $ cE \I i ' 758 AS TO WN CREEK FL~ODE~ THE IviAJESTICSHOWED THE (')0 ~ SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA •••
BLDGS. JACKSON'S SKYLINE DEVELOPED A NUMBER OF
MULTI-STORY BUILDINGS FOR OOMPANIES SEEKING
A HEADQUARTERS TO SERVE MISSISSIPPI ••••
NEW THEATERS, HOTEL, OFFICE BUILDINGS AND GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS WERE BUILT,.BElO~H~RE WERE TWO FACTORS WHICH KEPT JApKSON GROWING EVEN DURING THE DEPRE~SIPN ••• ( P.,USo!) .
790 OIL RI GS DISCOVEREY OF~THb JACKSON N~TURAL GAS FIELD IN JANUARY, 1931, FEDERAL MAKE-WORK
/ PROGRAMS ••••
790 DOWNTOWN JACKSON; GROWS. WA S ?" t.-~N ~ 827 ~GNITARIES JACKSON IS VISITED BY SGME DIGNITARIES •••~g~ ~ .. 840 DUTCH ANNUALLY THE DUTCH OOMMEMORATE THEIR AIR
FORQE CADETS THAT DIED WHILE TRAINING HERE ••• 845 HEADLINES =JACKSON-ttWAS INVADED_~~AGAIN ON SEVERAL 000ASION1 875 SES QUI. MAG. JACKSON IS DEEPLY INDEBTED TO MRS. LELAND , SPEED FOR HER ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION TO THE
f\'1TICE SESQUIOENTE~IAL CELEBRATION IN THE BRONZE I nav be - Y copyright STATU~ OF GEN. ANDREW JACRSON STANDI NG IN THE '..""/n 217 U.S. Coda). FLOWER GARDEN BY OUR CITY HKLL •••• , 899 SKYLINE LOOK AT JAOKSON IN 1972 ••.•FROM EVERY ANGLE IT IS A BEA~TIFUL OITY DESTINED TO GROW ••y~5E toNG:D. -- JACKSON IS THE CROSSROADS OF THE SOUTH ••• ~A~$~ ____ ~------' ~~~_~ef , ~~u(~~~___~' __ --_ 942 AIRPORT HIGHWAYS OR AIRWAYS.".INDUSTRY.~. EDUOATION ••. •.IE DON'T PUT THE END TO THIS SALUTE 'OAUSE iiE I RE AT THE BEGTNNTNr.."_. '?-..~.•• '~\"I.A\/ (.(r/ . ., .•.••~i"- /