John Wesley Jackson Entrepreneur

John Wesley Jackson

Entrepreneur

John Wesley Jackson was one of the first black hotel owners in Alexandria, the Hotel Jackson located on King and Peyton Streets. Jackson founded Mount Jezreel Baptist Church in 1890. In 1917, he purchased a house at 521 North Henry Street. It functioned as a rooming house and a bakery. It was the only place chauffeurs and other service workers could stay, due to segregated hotels.