The collections

Records

Cemetery, marriage and death lists, photographs and recordings, recipes, catalog entries, the books read for this site, data downloads and the source register, grouped by what you came to do.

Detail of an 1891 fire-insurance map of Berryville, in blue, showing Main and Church streets, the county courthouse, the jail, a bank and shops. — Berryville's Main and Church streets on the 1891 Sanborn map. Sanborn-Perris Map Co., "Berryville, Clark Co., Va.", June 1891, plate 1. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. (detail)

Find a person

Name-searchable lists. Each is a published compilation or transcription, not the original register.

Green Hill CemeteryThe full burial directory, searchable and readable without JavaScript.8,799 entries
Cemeteries of Clarke CountyEvery grave and burial in the Roystons’ book of the county’s other burial places, from family burial grounds to church cemeteries, searchable by name, year and place.
Marriages, 1836–1886Every entry in Patricia B. Duncan’s transcription of the county’s marriage records, searchable by name, year and place.1,896 entries
Deaths, 1853–1896Every entry in Patricia B. Duncan’s transcription of the county’s death register, with the enslaved people it lists and the births of 1855 and 1856, searchable by name, year, place, cause and enslaver.2,552 entries

Photographs and recordings

Pictures shown only where the individual item is cleared, and recordings linked to their publishers.

Photographs 415 published: 111 photographs, three maps and 301 documents

Each with an inspected file, an item-level rights basis, a credit and alt text.

Browse photographs and documents Video and recordings 11 recordings

Recordings about Clarke County or filmed in it, gathered from their publishers. Every one links out to the original; none is rehosted.

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Cook from Clarke

Recipe cards from a local cookbook and from Clarke cooks.

RecipesRecipes from the 1986 White Post Village Cook Book and from Clarke cooks, searchable by dish, ingredient, category and contributor.346 recipe cards. The recipes download holds 251 of them: the White Post Village Cook Book and recipes contributed to Our Clarke directly.

Research and reuse

Catalog pointers, the books read for this site, downloadable data and the sources behind every statement.

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