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==Death and legacy== Jackson died on May 2, 1909, in [[Asheville, North Carolina|Asheville]], [[North Carolina]]. He is interred in his hometown of Minaville, New York.<ref name=vandusen/> The former [[Sheldon Jackson College]] in [[Sitka City and Borough, Alaska|Sitka]], [[Alaska]], was named after him. The [[Sheldon Jackson Museum]], on the Sheldon Jackson College grounds, is the oldest [[concrete]] building in the state, and houses much of Sheldon Jackson's collection as well as other examples of [[Tlingit people|Tlingit]], [[Inuit]], and [[Aleut people|Aleut]] culture. Sheldon Jackson Street is found in the College Village subdivision of [[Anchorage]], a neighborhood next to the [[University of Alaska Anchorage]] campus where the streets are named for colleges and universities (the street forms a loop with [[Emory University|Emory]] Street). In 1874, while in [[Fairplay, Colorado|Fairplay]] in Park County, Colorado, Jackson built the still standing Sheldon Jackson Memorial Chapel, renamed the [[South Park Community Church]], a one-room [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] structure, listed in 1977 on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name=vandusen/>
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