Question: New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern began at what Madison county, Mississippi town?

Context articles: Horseshoe Lake State Park
South Fork of the Forked Deer River
List of New Orleans Pelicans seasons
Madison County Courthouse (Madison, Florida)
Canton, Mississippi
Drainage in New Orleans
Madison Central High School (Mississippi)
Skip Bolen
Gluckstadt, Mississippi
New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern

Horseshoe Lake State Park is an Illinois state park in Madison County, Illinois, United States.
 It is approximately 2960 acre and surrounds a large horseshoe shaped lake called Horseshoe Lake.
 Horseshoe Lake is the second largest natural lake in Illinois taking up approximately 2400 acre of the 2960 acre park.
 The park has connections to Madison County Transit's Schoolhouse Trail, which connects to over 85 mi of bike trail in Madison County, and even a trail which goes all of the way to downtown St. Louis after crossing the Mississippi River on the Chain of Rocks Bridge.
 The park is located in southeastern Granite City, Illinois, just a 10 mi drive northeast of downtown St. Louis.
The South Fork of the Forked Deer River is formed at the confluence of Huggins Creek and Tar Creek in the southern part of Chester County, Tennessee, United States.
 It flows in a generally northern direction and passes just to the east of Henderson.
 It then runs in a northwesterly direction and enters Madison County and passes near Pinson.
 Flowing still generally north it passes through Jackson.
 It continues across Madison County and enters Crockett County, It flows in a northwest direction through the following counties sometimes passing in and out of a county several times.
 Haywood County, Lauderdale County and Dyer County where it joins with the North Fork.
 The Forked Deer then empties into the Obion River which in turn flows into the Mississippi River.
The New Orleans Pelicans are a professional basketball team based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The franchise began play during the 2002–03 NBA season as the New Orleans Hornets following the relocation of the Charlotte Hornets, based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
 After three seasons in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina forced the franchise to temporarily relocate to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where they spent two seasons as the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets.
 The Hornets returned to New Orleans full-time for the 2007–08 season.
 The team changed its name to the New Orleans Pelicans at the conclusion of the 2012–13 season.
The Madison County Courthouse, built in 1913, is an historic courthouse building located in Madison, Florida.
 It is Madison County's fourth courthouse and the third built in Madison.
 The first log building at San Pedro was abandoned along with the town.
 The second courthouse built in 1840 in Madison burned in 1876 and was replaced by an 1880 brick structure which burned in 1912.
 The present building is unusual among Florida courthouses of its vintage in never having been added onto or expanded.
 In 1989, the Madison County Courthouse was listed in "A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture", published by the University of Florida Press.
Canton is a city in Madison County, Mississippi, United States.
 The population was 13,189 at the 2010 census.
 It is the county seat of Madison County, and situated in the northern part of the metropolitan area surrounding the state capital, Jackson.
Drainage in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been a major concern since the founding of the city in the early 18th century, remaining an important factor in the history of New Orleans today.
 The central portion of metropolitan New Orleans (New Orleans/Metairie/Kenner) is fairly unusual in that it is almost completely surrounded by water: Lake Pontchartrain to the north, Lake Borgne to the east, wetlands to the east and west, and the Mississippi River to the south.
 Much of the land area between these bodies of water is at or below sea level, and no longer has a natural outlet for flowing surface water.
 As such, virtually all rainfall occurring within this area must be removed through either evapotranspiration or pumping.
 Thus, flood threats to metropolitan New Orleans include the Mississippi River, Lake Pontchartrain, and natural rainfall.
 Artificial levees have been built to keep out rising river and lake waters but have had the negative effect of keeping rainfall in.
Madison Central High School is a public high school (grades 10-12) located on Highland Colony Parkway in Madison, Mississippi.
 Madison Central is part of the Madison County School District.
 Madison Central has a student body of 1377, and the current principal is Austin Brown.
 It is one of the four largest public high schools in the state.
 In 2002, Madison Central was the only high school in Mississippi to host President George W. Bush.
 The school colors are orange and blue and the school mascot is the jaguar.
 Madison Central is classified as a 6A public high school by the Mississippi High School Activities Association (MHSAA).
Skip Bolen is a Southern photographer of musicians, architecture, lifestyle and the culture of New Orleans.
 Born in Lafayette, Louisiana, he moved to New Orleans where he began his publishing career as a designer and art director.
 After moving to New York City, he began working at "House & Garden," renamed "HG," as Senior Designer in January 1988 with Anna Wintour and Alexander Liberman at Condé Nast Publications.
 Spending evenings in jazz clubs, he began photographing jazz musicians in New York City and often when he regularly returned to New Orleans.
 After three years at Condé Nast Publications in New York City, he returned to New Orleans to pursue his jazz photography full-time.
 In 1998, he moved to Los Angeles where he became art director of House of Blues for seven years while photographing at night and weekends.
 He continued photographing jazz musicians and had his first major solo exhibition at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles on August 9, 2002.
 On July 4, 2006, he returned to New Orleans to pursue photography full-time documenting the recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, documenting the jazz scene, night-time photography and other photographic projects.
Gluckstadt is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Mississippi, United States.
 The community is located along Interstate 55 in south central Madison County, between the cities of Canton and Madison.
 It is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern was a 206 mi gauge railway originally commissioned by the State of Illinois, with both Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln being among its supporters in the 1851 Illinois Legislature.
 It connected Canton, Mississippi, with New Orleans and was completed just prior to the American Civil War, in which it served strategic interests, especially for the Confederacy.
 The New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern was largely in ruins by the end of the War.