National Register Listing

Jackson Ward Historic District

a.k.a. Jackson Ward;see also:Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church;

Roughly bounded by 5th, Marshall, and Gilmer Sts., and the Richmond-Petersburg Tpke., Richmond (Independent City), VA
Local significance of the district:
Commerce; Education; Black; Architecture; Politics/government; Social History; Religion

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.