Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Mount Jackson, VA

Mount Jackson is an incorporated town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley.

In 1739 Benjamin Allen purchased a 400-acre tract at the confluence of Mill Creek and the North Fork of the Shenandoah River and established a grist mill there by 1746.

The settlement was first known as Mount Pleasant; on January 28, 1826, an act of the Virginia General Assembly renamed it Mount Jackson in honor of General Andrew Jackson.

Mount Jackson prospered on the Valley Turnpike, sitting about halfway between Winchester and Staunton, and grew wealthy as a wagon-road trading center.

The Manassas Gap Railroad reached Mount Jackson in 1859, and the town served as the line's terminus until it was completed through to Harrisonburg in 1868, making Mount Jackson a rail entrepot for grain, apples and livestock.

During the Civil War, Company G of the 33rd Virginia Infantry of the Stonewall Brigade was largely recruited in Mount Jackson, and a Confederate hospital built along the railroad in 1861 could accommodate 500 patients; the Confederate cemetery across the tracks is all that visibly remains of it.

The Union Church, built about 1825 in the center of town, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as is the Mount Jackson Historic District, which encompasses 125 buildings and was listed in 1993.

The Meems Bottom Covered Bridge, one of Virginia's best-known covered bridges, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places at Mount Jackson.

The 2020 census counted 1,961 people in Mount Jackson living in 793 households.

Travelers on Interstate 81 know Mount Jackson by Exit 273 and its water tower painted to look like a basket of apples, a nod to the Shenandoah Valley apple industry.