Audley Farm (business)
The farm business trading as Audley Farm at 752 Audley Lane, Berryville. It describes its current work as thoroughbred breeding and training, registered Black Angus cattle, beef and hay sales, and events at Audley House, and it sells beef at the Clarke County Farmers Market on Saturdays from May through October. Its legal entity is not established here: the land's owner of record is a differently named corporation that bills to the same Berryville post office box the farm publishes as its mailing address.
Audley Farm (business)
The operating business trading as Audley Farm at 752 Audley Lane, Berryville. It describes its current work as thoroughbred breeding and training, registered Black Angus cattle, beef and hay sales, and event hosting. The land it sits on has a corporate owner on the county's records; the farm's own account of the site reaches back to a 1749 Fairfax grant.
Audley Farm is the working business at 752 Audley Lane in Berryville. The business publishes audleyfarm.com and gives that address as its physical location. It describes its current work as thoroughbred breeding and training, registered Black Angus cattle, beef and hay sales, and event hosting1. It publishes two ways for the public to meet it: a stall at the Clarke County Farmers Market on Saturdays from May through October (8:00 a.m. to noon), and the Audley House, offered for gatherings of up to a set capacity2.
The land under the business has a different name in the county's own records. The land's owner of record is a corporation, PROFUNDUS VIRGINIA PROPERTIES INC, billing to P.O. Box 510 in Berryville. No owner named Audley Farm appears in the county's records for this parcel1. Two facts stated together: the working business the site introduces to the public, and the corporate title on the assessment.
The farm's own account of the land reaches back much further. Audley dates itself to a 1749 grant from Lord Thomas Fairfax to Colonel George William Fairfax, says Warner Washington bought half the estate in 1764, and that it stayed in the Washington family for 138 years1. The 1749 date puts Audley among the very earliest permanent European titles in what would become Clarke County — nearly ninety years before the county itself existed.
Four claims establish what the business currently offers, how the public can meet it, who the county records as the underlying landowner, and the farm's own account of a 1749 origin and a Washington-family purchase in 1764. The intervening 260 years of chain of title, use, and ownership are the natural next research target; the LVA deed-book packet named in the September strategy memo would open much of it.
Evidence
See the source and its limits
The business trading as Audley Farm publishes audleyfarm.com and gives 752 Audley Lane, Berryville, as its physical address. It describes its current work as thoroughbred breeding and training, registered Black Angus cattle, beef and hay sales, and events.
What the source supports
What the business says it currently does, and where it says it is. The county's own assessment record classes the parcel as agricultural and zones it agricultural, open space and conservation, which is consistent with a working farm.
Uncertainty
The activities are the business's own description of itself; no inspection, licence, brand registration, race record or sales record was read. The assessment record's agricultural class and zoning are an assessor's classification of land, not a record of any particular enterprise.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The business's own statement of what it does.
Audley Farm website (the farm's own site, read September 11, 2026)
Audley Farm · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: Home page, the summary line under the farm name
Relevant passageOur expertise includes thoroughbred race horses, registered Black Angus cattle, premium beef sales, hay farming and sales, and special events, each founded on the cornerstone of tradition and performance.
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Open sourceSource family: audley-farm-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: contextualizes. The county's agricultural class and zoning for the parcel, which is a classification of land rather than a record of the enterprise.
Clarke County CAMA property record, account 2397 (Audley Farm & Buena Vista)
Clarke County, Virginia · 2026-09-05 (last update)
Locator: Parcel Information and Legal Desc fields, property page for account 2397
Relevant passageTown/District BATTLETOWN; Total Acres 822.8; Legal Desc 1 AUDLEY FARM & BUENA VISTA; Legal Desc 2 TRACT 1 822.798 ACRES; Zoning AGRICULTURAL/OPEN SPACE/CONSERVATION; State Class AGR/UNDEV 100 UP ACR
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-property-systems. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
See the source and its limits
The farm publishes two ways for the public to meet it: a stall at the Clarke County Farmers Market on Saturdays from May through October, 8:00 a.m. to noon, and the Audley House, which it offers for gatherings of up to about fifty people.
What the source supports
The access the business itself publishes.
Uncertainty
This is what the farm advertises, not a schedule anyone has verified, and it is not an open invitation to the property. Audley Farm is private land; nothing published says the farm is open to visitors, and the house is offered by arrangement.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The market schedule and the house's stated capacity, as the farm publishes them.
Audley Farm website (the farm's own site, read September 11, 2026)
Audley Farm · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: Home page, the Our Upcoming Events section
Relevant passageFrom May through October, you'll find Audley Farm at the Clarke County Farmers Market each Saturday from 8:00 AM-12:00 PM.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: audley-farm-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The house's stated availability and capacity, as the farm publishes them.
Audley Farm website (the farm's own site, read September 11, 2026)
Audley Farm · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: Home page, the Our Events section
Relevant passageThe historic Audley House, the former home to George Washington's step-granddaughter, is available for intimate gatherings and special events. ... Our space can comfortably accommodate up to 50 people for four hours.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: audley-farm-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
See the source and its limits
The land's owner of record is a corporation, PROFUNDUS VIRGINIA PROPERTIES INC, billing to P.O. Box 510 in Berryville. No owner named Audley Farm appears in the county's records for this parcel.
What the source supports
That the recorded owner of the land and the name the farm trades under are not the same name, and that the county's billing address for the owner is the same post office box the farm publishes as its mailing address.
Uncertainty
A shared post office box is a correspondence address, not proof that the owner of record and the operating business are one entity or that either controls the other. Nothing read establishes the legal form, registration or officers of the business trading as Audley Farm; the Virginia State Corporation Commission's search site returned only a JavaScript shell to this retrieval and was not read. Owner of record is an ownership fact and does not evidence who farms the land.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The billing name and address carried on the parcel.
Clarke County, Virginia parcel layer Parcels_20260416, parcel ACCT 2397 (tax map 15-A-4)
Clarke County, Virginia · 2026-04-16 (publication)
Locator: Feature attributes for ACCT 2397, Parcels_20260416 layer 0
Relevant passageACCT 2397; TAX_MAP 15-A-4; PROP_ADDR 1186 AUDLEY LN; BILL_NAME1 PROFUNDUS VIRGINIA PROPERTIES INC; BILL_ADDR1 P O BOX 510; ACRES 822.8; DEED_BK_PG DB 2008/28
Checked: Catalog index only. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-property-systems. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The assessment record's only Sales History row, whose grantor is the same corporation.
Clarke County CAMA property record, account 2397 (Audley Farm & Buena Vista)
Clarke County, Virginia · 2026-09-05 (last update)
Locator: Sales History table, the single row, property page for account 2397
Relevant passagePROFUNDUS VIRGINIA PROPERTIES INC | $0 | DEED BOOK-2008-59 | 1
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-property-systems. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
See the source and its limits
The farm's own site dates Audley to a 1749 grant from Lord Thomas Fairfax to Colonel George William Fairfax, says Warner Washington bought half the estate in 1764 and that it stayed in the Washington family for 138 years, and names Eleanor “Nelly” Custis Lewis as its best-known resident. It dates Black Angus cattle at Audley to 1903 under Archibald Cummins and an expansion to 1978 under Hubertus Liebrecht.
What the source supports
What the business publishes as the property's history.
Uncertainty
The business's own account, citing no record for any of it. The county records cited elsewhere in this profile are independent of the business and they corroborate present parcel facts -- the parcel, its acreage, its legal description, its owner of record -- but they reach none of this history: no grant, deed, will, census or newspaper was read against any date or name in it, so the origin account stands uncorroborated by anything inspected here. The 1989 state architectural survey independently names Audley among the county's plantation houses, which is a separate record of the house's age and standing and is not a check on any of these dates.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The published origin account, quoted for the fact that the business states it.
Audley Farm website (the farm's own site, read September 11, 2026)
Audley Farm · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: Home page, the paragraph headed A FARM With A Presidential Connection
Relevant passageAudley was founded in 1749 when Lord Thomas Fairfax granted Colonel George William Fairfax a 3,000-acre estate. In 1764, a cousin of George Washington, Warner Washington, bought half of the estate. From that point on, Audley remained in the Washington family for 138 years.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: audley-farm-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: contextualizes. The 1989 state survey's independent mention of Audley among the county's plantation houses.
Clarke County Rural Reconnaissance Survey, DHR CK-015
Maral S. Kalbian · 1989 (publication)
Locator: Architectural-type list, vernacular brick, and the narrative on family schools
Relevant passageVERNACULAR/BRICR Audley (21-4) ... Carter Hall (21-12) had a school of this type, as did many other plantation houses in the county such as Avenal (21-5), Llewellyn (21-520), The Retreat (21-195), Audley (21-4), Frankford (21-363), Longbranch (21-95) and Clay Hill (21-17). (Pope, pp.21-22)
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-surveys-kalbian. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The cattle dates the claim reports, in the business's own words.
Audley Farm website (the farm's own site, read September 11, 2026)
Audley Farm · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: Home page, the Our Cattle Program section
Relevant passageBlack Angus cattle first arrived at Audley Farm in 1903, introduced by then-owner Archibald Cummins. Decades later, in 1978, new owner Hubertus Liebrecht expanded the operation with the acquisition of Morgan Springs Farm.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: audley-farm-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
What the sources support
The land's owner of record is a corporation, PROFUNDUS VIRGINIA PROPERTIES INC, billing to P.O. Box 510 in Berryville. No owner named Audley Farm appears in the county's records for this parcel.
See the source and its limits
The land's owner of record is a corporation, PROFUNDUS VIRGINIA PROPERTIES INC, billing to P.O. Box 510 in Berryville. No owner named Audley Farm appears in the county's records for this parcel.
What the source supports
That the recorded owner of the land and the name the farm trades under are not the same name, and that the county's billing address for the owner is the same post office box the farm publishes as its mailing address.
Uncertainty
A shared post office box is a correspondence address, not proof that the owner of record and the operating business are one entity or that either controls the other. Nothing read establishes the legal form, registration or officers of the business trading as Audley Farm; the Virginia State Corporation Commission's search site returned only a JavaScript shell to this retrieval and was not read. Owner of record is an ownership fact and does not evidence who farms the land.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The billing name and address carried on the parcel.
Clarke County, Virginia parcel layer Parcels_20260416, parcel ACCT 2397 (tax map 15-A-4)
Clarke County, Virginia · 2026-04-16 (publication)
Locator: Feature attributes for ACCT 2397, Parcels_20260416 layer 0
Relevant passageACCT 2397; TAX_MAP 15-A-4; PROP_ADDR 1186 AUDLEY LN; BILL_NAME1 PROFUNDUS VIRGINIA PROPERTIES INC; BILL_ADDR1 P O BOX 510; ACRES 822.8; DEED_BK_PG DB 2008/28
Checked: Catalog index only. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-property-systems. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The assessment record's only Sales History row, whose grantor is the same corporation.
Clarke County CAMA property record, account 2397 (Audley Farm & Buena Vista)
Clarke County, Virginia · 2026-09-05 (last update)
Locator: Sales History table, the single row, property page for account 2397
Relevant passagePROFUNDUS VIRGINIA PROPERTIES INC | $0 | DEED BOOK-2008-59 | 1
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-property-systems. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
The business trading as Audley Farm publishes audleyfarm.com and gives 752 Audley Lane, Berryville, as its physical address. It describes its current work as thoroughbred breeding and training, registered Black Angus cattle, beef and hay sales, and events.
See the source and its limits
The business trading as Audley Farm publishes audleyfarm.com and gives 752 Audley Lane, Berryville, as its physical address. It describes its current work as thoroughbred breeding and training, registered Black Angus cattle, beef and hay sales, and events.
What the source supports
What the business says it currently does, and where it says it is. The county's own assessment record classes the parcel as agricultural and zones it agricultural, open space and conservation, which is consistent with a working farm.
Uncertainty
The activities are the business's own description of itself; no inspection, licence, brand registration, race record or sales record was read. The assessment record's agricultural class and zoning are an assessor's classification of land, not a record of any particular enterprise.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The business's own statement of what it does.
Audley Farm website (the farm's own site, read September 11, 2026)
Audley Farm · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: Home page, the summary line under the farm name
Relevant passageOur expertise includes thoroughbred race horses, registered Black Angus cattle, premium beef sales, hay farming and sales, and special events, each founded on the cornerstone of tradition and performance.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: audley-farm-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: contextualizes. The county's agricultural class and zoning for the parcel, which is a classification of land rather than a record of the enterprise.
Clarke County CAMA property record, account 2397 (Audley Farm & Buena Vista)
Clarke County, Virginia · 2026-09-05 (last update)
Locator: Parcel Information and Legal Desc fields, property page for account 2397
Relevant passageTown/District BATTLETOWN; Total Acres 822.8; Legal Desc 1 AUDLEY FARM & BUENA VISTA; Legal Desc 2 TRACT 1 822.798 ACRES; Zoning AGRICULTURAL/OPEN SPACE/CONSERVATION; State Class AGR/UNDEV 100 UP ACR
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-property-systems. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
The farm's own site dates Audley to a 1749 grant from Lord Thomas Fairfax to Colonel George William Fairfax, says Warner Washington bought half the estate in 1764 and that it stayed in the Washington family for 138 years, and names Eleanor “Nelly” Custis Lewis as its best-known resident. It dates Black Angus cattle at Audley to 1903 under Archibald Cummins and an expansion to 1978 under Hubertus Liebrecht.
See the source and its limits
The farm's own site dates Audley to a 1749 grant from Lord Thomas Fairfax to Colonel George William Fairfax, says Warner Washington bought half the estate in 1764 and that it stayed in the Washington family for 138 years, and names Eleanor “Nelly” Custis Lewis as its best-known resident. It dates Black Angus cattle at Audley to 1903 under Archibald Cummins and an expansion to 1978 under Hubertus Liebrecht.
What the source supports
What the business publishes as the property's history.
Uncertainty
The business's own account, citing no record for any of it. The county records cited elsewhere in this profile are independent of the business and they corroborate present parcel facts -- the parcel, its acreage, its legal description, its owner of record -- but they reach none of this history: no grant, deed, will, census or newspaper was read against any date or name in it, so the origin account stands uncorroborated by anything inspected here. The 1989 state architectural survey independently names Audley among the county's plantation houses, which is a separate record of the house's age and standing and is not a check on any of these dates.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The published origin account, quoted for the fact that the business states it.
Audley Farm website (the farm's own site, read September 11, 2026)
Audley Farm · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: Home page, the paragraph headed A FARM With A Presidential Connection
Relevant passageAudley was founded in 1749 when Lord Thomas Fairfax granted Colonel George William Fairfax a 3,000-acre estate. In 1764, a cousin of George Washington, Warner Washington, bought half of the estate. From that point on, Audley remained in the Washington family for 138 years.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: audley-farm-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: contextualizes. The 1989 state survey's independent mention of Audley among the county's plantation houses.
Clarke County Rural Reconnaissance Survey, DHR CK-015
Maral S. Kalbian · 1989 (publication)
Locator: Architectural-type list, vernacular brick, and the narrative on family schools
Relevant passageVERNACULAR/BRICR Audley (21-4) ... Carter Hall (21-12) had a school of this type, as did many other plantation houses in the county such as Avenal (21-5), Llewellyn (21-520), The Retreat (21-195), Audley (21-4), Frankford (21-363), Longbranch (21-95) and Clay Hill (21-17). (Pope, pp.21-22)
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-surveys-kalbian. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The cattle dates the claim reports, in the business's own words.
Audley Farm website (the farm's own site, read September 11, 2026)
Audley Farm · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: Home page, the Our Cattle Program section
Relevant passageBlack Angus cattle first arrived at Audley Farm in 1903, introduced by then-owner Archibald Cummins. Decades later, in 1978, new owner Hubertus Liebrecht expanded the operation with the acquisition of Morgan Springs Farm.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: audley-farm-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
The farm publishes two ways for the public to meet it: a stall at the Clarke County Farmers Market on Saturdays from May through October, 8:00 a.m. to noon, and the Audley House, which it offers for gatherings of up to about fifty people.
See the source and its limits
The farm publishes two ways for the public to meet it: a stall at the Clarke County Farmers Market on Saturdays from May through October, 8:00 a.m. to noon, and the Audley House, which it offers for gatherings of up to about fifty people.
What the source supports
The access the business itself publishes.
Uncertainty
This is what the farm advertises, not a schedule anyone has verified, and it is not an open invitation to the property. Audley Farm is private land; nothing published says the farm is open to visitors, and the house is offered by arrangement.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The market schedule and the house's stated capacity, as the farm publishes them.
Audley Farm website (the farm's own site, read September 11, 2026)
Audley Farm · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: Home page, the Our Upcoming Events section
Relevant passageFrom May through October, you'll find Audley Farm at the Clarke County Farmers Market each Saturday from 8:00 AM-12:00 PM.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: audley-farm-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The house's stated availability and capacity, as the farm publishes them.
Audley Farm website (the farm's own site, read September 11, 2026)
Audley Farm · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: Home page, the Our Events section
Relevant passageThe historic Audley House, the former home to George Washington's step-granddaughter, is available for intimate gatherings and special events. ... Our space can comfortably accommodate up to 50 people for four hours.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: audley-farm-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
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