Stonewall Jackson House
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The Stonewall Jackson House is a 19th century house located at 8 East Washington Street in Lexington, Virginia
Lexington, Virginia
Lexington is an independent city within the confines of Rockbridge County in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The population was 7,042 in 2010. Lexington is about 55 minutes east of the West Virginia border and is about 50 miles north of Roanoke, Virginia. It was first settled in 1777.It is home to...

. Constructed in 1802, by Cornelius Dorman. Dr. Archibald Graham sold it to Jackson on November 4, 1858, for $3000.
It is the only house that General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
Stonewall Jackson
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ever owned. He lived in the brick house with his second wife, Mary Anna Morrison.

In 1907, it housed Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital, until 1954, when it was converted to a museum.

The house is owned and operated as a museum by the Stonewall Jackson Foundation. Guided tours are given daily.

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