Interview with Archie Jackson 2
April 4, 2001

B: This is Mark Barrow, and I am doing an oral history here in Archie Jackson's
 home. It's April 3, a few days after April Fool's Day, at 1:00 p.m. Archie, tell me what is the address of your house. (Is this April 3 or 41h as indicated in
 writing on the tape? RCM)

 J: 6415 S.E. 92nd Terrace.

B: First off, I know you've been interested for a long time in your family history as
 well as local history. Why don't you just give us some background -and I know you have the papers there with you -of the Jackson's and when they came here
 and where.

 J: The Jackson family came here in the 1840's, late 1840's.

B: Did Lawrence's family group move down here or just his family?

 J: He came down here to fann. They were on the move, looking for better things.
 They were in the cattle business.

B: came down to Newnansville first.

 J: With his father. I have a sheet in there that he moved here with his father when
 he was five years old.

B: So he was a youngster. And he was really the one who started the farming and
 the share cropping.

 J: That's correct.

B: the town of Gainesville and the railroad
 through there.

 J: We used to own what was called Lake. In high water times,
 it adjoins or vice versa, and all of Paynes Prairie.

B: Any relation to the old Indian village that was right near
 there on the south rim of the Prairie.

 J: There is a large bluff leading down to that lake,

B: When came through in 1774, he drew a little X where the
 old Indian village was. There were Seminoles there then, but they still use that village to camp. There are two maps of Paynes Prairie. We've got pictures of them at the Matheson, and they are a little different, so it was shown on two different locations. I was always hoping that someday the Florida Museum of

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