Mount Jackson Historic District

Mount Jackson is a small Shenandoah County town founded in 1826 and named for General Andrew Jackson. It grew as a milling center and later a transportation hub after the Valley Turnpike arrived in the 1830s and the Manassas Gap Railroad reached it in 1858. The historic district holds 128 contributing resources, mostly houses, along with commercial, religious, industrial and school buildings. Early survivors include log dwellings, a few brick Federal-style houses and the small brick Union Church of about 1825, used as a hospital during the Civil War. Most buildings are late-19th and early-20th-century frame houses with Victorian details. Notable landmarks include the 1872 gambrel-roofed Mt. Jackson Mill, three Victorian Gothic brick churches, the ca. 1904 Colonial Revival Peoples Bank, and a 1938 Art Deco theatre. By 1940 the town had much of its present appearance. Despite demolitions near the former depot, the district remains a cohesive record of the town's growth.