JACKSON — If you have to ask, “Where the hell is the Oak Lee?” then you haven't been around Jackson very long. But that's OK: There's still plenty of time to become a regular at Jackson's popular Shannon Door Pub family pizza establishment, no matter by what name you know it.
First as the Oak Lee Lodge, and as the Shannon Door for the past 31 years, the popular Irish restaurant has been a local iconic mainstay since 1953.
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