Still looking for more? Try one of our destination guides to Jackson.Jackson The capital of Mississippi, Jackson (named after the 7th President of the United States) is history-laced nearly throughout, a place where most mansions are of early 1900s origin or before; where memorials and gardens are beautiful, yet unimposing, and the museums appear frozen in time. Not quite losing in the race toward advancement among southern US capitals but hardly stripped of its agedness and its gritty, weathered lacquer, Jackson is the place for those in search of soul with a side salad of y'all. It's got its colleges and it certainly isn't...more