Jackson County will turn 200 years old Jan. 1, 2016, nearly a year ahead of the state’s bicentennial celebration Dec. 11, 2016.
The world’s first train robbery occurred in Seymour in 1866.
And the Tuskegee Airmen trained — and mutinied — at Freeman Field during World War II.
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