Maxwell Elementary School

The Jackson Purchase

by Jordan, Steven, and Sean

• The land is very good for farming.  This graph shows that the Jackson Purchase region has a lot of prime farmland where they grow a lot of crops.
• This is the only region in Kentucky that grows cotton.
• Some of the industries that they have in the Jackson Purchase include clay mining, tourism, and toy and clothing factories.
• It is surrounded by three important rivers.  This is a great resource because there is lots of water and they can transport goods on the rivers.

*Source for graph:  Atlas of Kentucky, by Richard Ulack, Karl Raitz, Gyula Pauer, pg. 159.

II.GEOGRAPHY

• This is also the only regon in Kentucky with natural swamps.
• The Jackson Purchase is surrounded by three rivers:   the Mississippi, the Ohio, and the Tennessee rivers.
• The Jackson Purchase is the lowest land in Kentucky.
• Paducah is the largest city in this region.  It is an important trading center because it is by several major rivers and has a lot of river industry.
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*This picture shows one of the many natural swamps found in the Jackson Purchase region.

*Sources for this web page:  Atlas of Kentucky, by Richard Ulack, Karl Raitz, and Gyula Pauer, University of Kentucky Press, 1998; Kentucky:   The Bluegrass State, by Peggy Roney Walther, Clairmont Press, 1994; The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, Editor-in-Chief, The University Press of Kentucky, 1992; Kentucky Geoquest, four part video series produced by KET; Classroom Notes, Joy Pickett taken from Building a Society:  Kentucky Life From Settlement to Statehood, Kentucky Historical Society, 1992.