Mount Jackson in Shenandoah County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)
Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church
5983 Main Street
| — | Mt. Jackson Historic District | — |
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1886
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Religion & Religious Structures. A significant historical year for this entry is 1886.
Location. 38° 44.735′ N, 78° 38.568′ W. Marker is in Mount Jackson, Virginia, in Shenandoah County. It is on Main Street (U.S. 11) just north of Orkney Drive (County Road T-1324), on the left when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 5983 Main St, Mount Jackson VA 22842, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Upper South, and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
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Also see . . . National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for the Mount Jackson Historic District. This church building is a contributing structure to the Mount Jackson Historic District. The registration form was prepared by David A. Edwards, Architectural Historian with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, on February 23, 1993. A summary statement of historical significance for the historic district is on page 29:
Mount Jackson Historic District includes most of the historicdwellings, commercial buildings, churches, schools, and industrial buildings that help define the small town of Mount Jackson. Located near the confluence of Mill Creek and the North Fork of the Shenandoah River in southern Shenandoah County, the village began as an eighteenth-century milling center known as Mount Pleasant. In 1826, by act of the Virginia General Assembly, the name of the town was changed to Mount Jackson in honor of General Andrew Jackson. The town soon prospered as a commercial, milling, and transportation center primarily due to the passage of the Valley Turnpike through town in the 1830s and the arrival of the Manassas Gap Railroad in 1859. Serving as the southern terminus of the railroad until 1868, Mount Jackson was also an important Confederate hospital center during the Valley campaigns of the Civil War. A significant rail shipping point for such products as grain, apples, and livestock, Mount Jackson continued to prosper as a transportation center during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The small railraod town also contains a cohesive and architecturally significant collection of buildings that represents various styles from the early nineteenth through the twentieth centuries.
Architectural descriptions for the church are mentioned a couple times in the text, including this paragraph on page 7:
Adjacent to the Union Church cemetery, Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church is a Victorian Gothic structure that was constructed in 1886. Located at 5983 Main Street, i t also has a corner entrance/bell tower with a graceful pointed-arched open belfry topped by a pyramidal steeple. A hip-roofed front projection with buttresses and pointed-arched stained-glass windows is an unusual feature.(Submitted on August 24, 2026, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.)
Credits. This page was last revised on August 24, 2026. It was originally submitted on October 19, 2020, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 288 times since then and 20 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on October 19, 2020, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
