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Andrew Jackson, horse racing & scandal in Natchez country
Column by Stanley Nelson
Beginning in the late 1780s, Andrew Jackson, who later became President of the United States, helped established horse racing and its counterpart, gambling, in Natchez. Around the same time, Jackson courted and married the love of his life, Rachel Donelon.
Longtime Natchez settler George Willey said that in 1788 there was a quarter horse track under-the-hill at Natchez that began at the foot of the bluff and stretched to the river for a quarter mile. Historian Jack Elliott's research shows that the track was located to the north of the buildings on Silver Street along the Mississippi.
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