Stonewall Jackson House - Lexington

The Stonewall Jackson House is located on East Washington Street in Lexington, Virginia.  The Federal-style townhouse was constructed in 1800 with a stone addition in 1848.  In 1859 the house was purchased by Thomas Jackson and his wife, Mary Anna.  He was a professor at VMI and had previously lived in a house on the Washington University campus with his first wife's family.  After her death he remarried and moved here, to the only home he would ever own.  Thomas and Mary Anna lived here from 1859 to 1861, when he joined the Confederate Army at the outbreak of the Civil War.  He would go on to great reknown as a general dury the conflict, being mortally wounded during the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863.  He died on May 23 and his body was interred in the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery.  Mary Anna kept the house as a rental property until 1906 when she sold it to the United Daughters of the Confederacy who turned it into the Jackson Memorial Hospital.  It would remain a hospital until 1954 when it was purchased by the Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Inc. and turned into a museum.  During the years many changes had altered the look of the structure, but in 1979 restorations returned the home to its look during Jackson's time here.  The Stonewall Jackson House still serves as a museum and is part of the VMI museums.  The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and the Virginia Landmarks Register in 2009. 

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