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Here you'll find a living history farm on an original (relocated) farmstead and practically everything you wanted to know about cotton and catfish rearing, plus gardens, a farm animal barnyard, and exhibits on typical agrarian town life and blacksmithing. Offers train and carousel rides for $1.
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Marks the site slightly northeast of downtown where the first European settler in the area, a French trader named Louis Lefleur, set up a trading post on the Pearl River that would eventually become the city of Jackson. Aside from historical points of interest, there are also short nature trails, an impoundment for fishing/canoeing, a golf course, and a campground.
Home of fairly renowned Jacksonian writer who described life as she knew it in the early 20th century in her books like One Writer's Beginnings.
The Wild West Rodeo comes to Jackson each year with this exciting event.