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Jacks Creek

Jacks Creek is a Tennessee historical marker in Chester, Chester County.

Chester Co, in Jacks Creek community at crossroads of State Hwy 22A & Hwy 100, Chester

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The Jacks Creek community was settled in the 1820s in Henderson (now Chester) County. It furnished men to the 13th Infantry, 18th Newsome's and 21st Wilson's Calvary units, C.S.A., and was the site of a skirmish 1 mi. N on Sept. 12, 1863, and an all-day battle by 2,500 troops under Gen. Forrest 1 mi. S on Dec. 23, 1863. It is the former home of J.M. Stone, Gov. of Miss.

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