The Shockeysville Church and Cemetery have together served as the heart of the Shockeysville community in northern Frederick County since the 19th century. Evidence suggests the church and cemetery were established in the early 1870s on Pack Horse Road, a regionally important migration route dating back to the 18th century. Shockeysville developed into a thriving village centered on the wood products industry, with a post office, a store, and multiple dwellings. A fire destroyed the village in 1904, sparing only the church extant at the time, the cemetery, and a barn. The current church was built in 1912-13, a gable-fronted frame building with exuberant folk graining on the pews and a decorative pressed metal ceiling. The cemetery contains over 160 grave markers and exhibits a diversity of memorial types and materials, including a reddish sandstone fieldstone marker and professionally carved marble and granite monuments.