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Mount Jackson is a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,994 at the 2010 census.
History: The town saw significant fighting in the American Civil War, and was occupied by soldiers of both armies at various times. Historic buildings range from the historic nondenominational Union Church (built 1825) and cemetery (which contains the grave of Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Gray and others to modern times), to the site of a former Confederate Hospital north of town (on the historic road to Winchester and later Frederick, Maryland) and Union encampment at Rude's Hill about three miles south of town.

Mount Jackson, in its beginnings, was known as Mount Pleasant. The first inhabitants of the Mount Jackson area were the Shendo Indians, who were massacred by the Catawbas around the latter part of the seventeenth century. In the early eighteenth century, land grants brought by the first permanent white settlers. On January 28, 1826, an act of the General Assembly of Virginia changed the name of the village in honor of General ("Old Hickory") Jackson. During the 1862 Valley Campaign, General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson established headquarters in the Rude House on Rude's Hill south of Mount Jackson and Camp Buchanan at Red Banks. Experience our heritage with walking tours, architectural buildings, heritage, churches, cemeteries, shopping, art gallery, and more. Just one stop along the Wilderness Trail in Shenandoah County! Resources: Virginia is for Lovers

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