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West Tennessee: Jackson School
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Most of West Tennessee remained Indian land until the Chickasaw Cession of 1818, when the Chickasaw ceded their land between the Tennessee River and the Mississippi River. The portion of the Chickasaw Cession that lies in Kentucky is known today as the Jackson Purchase.
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In 1923 West Tennessee Business College was ... organized in Jackson. It was located in the former Montgomery Ward building at the east corner of College and Liberty Streets. In 1928, the school was moved to the third floor of the Elks Building on Baltimore Street. In 1929, the Jackson School of Business and West Tennessee Business College were merged and became known as West Tennessee Business College. This name was retained because so many of the students attending WTBC were residents of towns outside Jackson and Madison County.
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A focus of the school would be on diverse and new energy sources, he says, such as oil shale, which is present in West Tennessee. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that there are 2.6 trillion barrels of recoverable oil in shale, with 2.1 trillion of it in the U.S.
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