The Mount Jackson Colored Cemetery is the premiere surviving resource associated with the Shenandoah County town of Mount Jackson’s historic African American community. The first mention of the cemetery is an 1874 deed in which Col. Levi Rinker gave trustees Wesley Rankins, Benjamin Rinker, Franklin Hill, and William Lemmons a quarter-acre lot at the north edge of town “for a cemetery or place of burial for Colored persons.” Grave markers range from uninscribed fieldstones to decoratively carved marble tombstones of tabular and modified obelisk form. In the 20th century, the cemetery was under the charge of Mount Jackson’s black Baptist and Methodist congregations, members of which were listed as trustees when a small parcel was added to the cemetery in 1924. Societal and demographic factors led to a decrease in burials in the second half of the 20th century, with the last known interment made in 1972. Efforts to document and preserve the cemetery began around 2000 and continue to the present.