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JHS was originally founded by Cory Jackson, Sr., in 1977 as Jackson Motel Management Company. The roots of hospitality run deep in the Jackson Family. Immediately after the Korean War, Mr. Jackson's father had the vision to develop a new motor hotel along busy highway 78 on the eastern side of Birmingham. The neat white motel soon developed a reputation for cleanliness and service that turned Motel Birmingham into an Alabama landmark. Having worked in all aspects of the family operation, Cory Sr. had his first taste of hotel management at the Motel Birmingham. A mortgage banker by trade, Mr. Jackson would found Jackson Motel Management when the family's mortgage banking business was sold in the late 1970s. Mr. Jackson would go on to develop and manage several Sheraton and Holiday Inn properties in the Birmingham area during the 1970s, including the wildly successful Sheraton Mountain Brook Inn.