Audley Farm
An 822-acre tract in the Battletown district of Clarke County, carried in the county's records as account 2397, tax map 15-A-4, under the legal description “AUDLEY FARM & BUENA VISTA.” Sixteen street addresses on Audley Lane and Nellie Custis Lane belong to the one parcel. Audley holds Virginia Department of Historic Resources file number 21-4 and was documented in the state's 1989 rural survey of the county; no individual listing for it was found in the Virginia Landmarks Register master list read in September 2026. The land's owner of record is a corporation, not a party named Audley Farm.
Audley Farm
An 822-acre tract in the Battletown district, carried in the county records as account 2397, tax map 15-A-4, under the legal description 'AUDLEY FARM & BUENA VISTA.' Sixteen street addresses on Audley Lane and Nellie Custis Lane sit on the property.
Audley Farm is in Clarke County, in the Battletown district. The county's parcel layer carries it as account 2397, tax map 15-A-4, with the legal description 'AUDLEY FARM & BUENA VISTA'1. 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 parcel2. The name the site knows is the working name of the land, not the name on its bill.
The farm's own account reaches back a quarter-millennium. Audley dates itself to a 1749 grant from Lord Thomas Fairfax to Colonel George William Fairfax; Warner Washington bought half the estate in 1764, and it stayed in the Washington family thereafter1. The Virginia Department of Historic Resources carries the property under file number 21‑4, and the 1989 Clarke County Rural Reconnaissance Survey lists Audley among the county's vernacular brick estates2. 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 that establish what the county's records currently show and what the farm's own account and the DHR survey record document about a 1749 grant, a 1764 Washington-family purchase, and a modern corporate ownership structure. The intervening 250 years of chain of title, occupancy, and use 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
Audley Farm is in Clarke County, in the Battletown district. The county's parcel layer carries it as account 2397, tax map 15-A-4, and the county's assessment record gives its legal description as “AUDLEY FARM & BUENA VISTA,” tract 1 of 822.798 acres, addressed along Audley Lane and Nellie Custis Lane.
What the source supports
The farm's location and extent as the county's own records carry them, and the sixteen street addresses the assessment record attaches to the single parcel.
Uncertainty
The 822.798 acres is this one parcel. Seventeen other parcels in the layer carry the same billing name and come to roughly 1,990 further acres, and nothing read says which of them the farm works; the farm's own site gives its extent as 3,000 acres, which is also the figure it gives for the 1749 grant. The parcel layer is a snapshot dated April 16, 2026 and the assessment page gives September 5, 2026 as the date of its own data.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The county's parcel attributes, which place the parcel in Clarke County without relying on the postal address.
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
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-property-systems. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The assessment record's legal description, district, acreage and zoning.
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
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-property-systems. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The sixteen street addresses the county attaches to the one parcel.
Clarke County CAMA property record, account 2397 (Audley Farm & Buena Vista)
Clarke County, Virginia · 2026-09-05 (last update)
Locator: Account Name and Location Address(es) fields, property page for account 2397
Relevant passageAccount Name PROFUNDUS VIRGINIA PROPERTIES INC; Address1 P O BOX 510; City, State Zip BERRYVILLE, VA 22611; Location Address(es) 733 AUDLEY LN; 740 AUDLEY LN; 752 AUDLEY LN; 757 AUDLEY LN; 894 AUDLEY LN; 1170 AUDLEY LN; 1186 AUDLEY LN; 1188 AUDLEY LN; 1674 AUDLEY LN; 1697 AUDLEY LN; 12 NELLIE CUSTIS LN; 148 NELLIE CUSTIS LN; 572 NELLIE CUSTIS LN; 582 NELLIE CUSTIS LN; 701 NELLIE CUSTIS LN; 767 NELLIE CUSTIS LN
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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 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
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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
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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
Audley carries the Virginia Department of Historic Resources file number 21-4 and was documented in the 1989 Clarke County Rural Reconnaissance Survey, which lists it among the county's vernacular brick houses. No individual listing for Audley was located in the Virginia Landmarks Register master list read on September 11, 2026, the edition updated through DHR January 21, 2026 and NPS January 16, 2026.
What the source supports
That Audley holds a state survey file and a DHR resource number, and what one specific document did and did not contain when it was read: the register master list carries more than forty Clarke County entries, Carter Hall and Blandy Experimental Farm among them, and no entry for Audley.
Uncertainty
Both documents were read as the text layer of a scanned PDF rather than as page images, and the survey is a 1989 typescript whose OCR is unreliable on the pages read: its type heading for this group reads VERNACULAR/BRICR, and other property names on the same pages come through broken. What was checked is one roster, on one date. That roster records individual listings on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register and nothing else, so the absence of an Audley entry is not a finding about the property's historic status generally. It says nothing about a DHR easement, and nothing about contributing status inside a listed rural historic district, which the roster records under the district's name rather than the property's; Long Marsh Run (021-0967), Chapel (021-5025) and Bear's Den (021-5010) are listed districts in this county and were not checked. The survey's remark about a family school at Audley is the surveyor citing Pope, not a record the survey read.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The Clarke County section of the register roster, in which Audley does not appear.
Virginia Landmarks Register master list, the edition updated through DHR January 21, 2026 and NPS January 16, 2026
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2026-01-21 (last update)
Locator: CLARKE COUNTY section, running from Greenway Court to Stone's Chapel
Relevant passageCLARKE COUNTY Greenway Court 09-09-1969 10-15-1966 021-0028 ... Carter Hall 06-19-1973 07-24-1973 021-0012 ... Blandy Experimental Farm 09-15-1992 11-12-1992 021-0550 ... Long Marsh Run Rural Historic District 06-19-1996 11-04-1996 021-0967 ... Stone's Chapel 06-20-2019 08-05-2019 021-0229
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-registers. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The survey's numerical index and type list, which carry Audley at 21-4.
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)
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Open sourceSource family: dhr-surveys-kalbian. 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
Audley Farm is in Clarke County, in the Battletown district. The county's parcel layer carries it as account 2397, tax map 15-A-4, and the county's assessment record gives its legal description as “AUDLEY FARM & BUENA VISTA,” tract 1 of 822.798 acres, addressed along Audley Lane and Nellie Custis Lane.
See the source and its limits
Audley Farm is in Clarke County, in the Battletown district. The county's parcel layer carries it as account 2397, tax map 15-A-4, and the county's assessment record gives its legal description as “AUDLEY FARM & BUENA VISTA,” tract 1 of 822.798 acres, addressed along Audley Lane and Nellie Custis Lane.
What the source supports
The farm's location and extent as the county's own records carry them, and the sixteen street addresses the assessment record attaches to the single parcel.
Uncertainty
The 822.798 acres is this one parcel. Seventeen other parcels in the layer carry the same billing name and come to roughly 1,990 further acres, and nothing read says which of them the farm works; the farm's own site gives its extent as 3,000 acres, which is also the figure it gives for the 1749 grant. The parcel layer is a snapshot dated April 16, 2026 and the assessment page gives September 5, 2026 as the date of its own data.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The county's parcel attributes, which place the parcel in Clarke County without relying on the postal address.
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 legal description, district, acreage and zoning.
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
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-property-systems. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The sixteen street addresses the county attaches to the one parcel.
Clarke County CAMA property record, account 2397 (Audley Farm & Buena Vista)
Clarke County, Virginia · 2026-09-05 (last update)
Locator: Account Name and Location Address(es) fields, property page for account 2397
Relevant passageAccount Name PROFUNDUS VIRGINIA PROPERTIES INC; Address1 P O BOX 510; City, State Zip BERRYVILLE, VA 22611; Location Address(es) 733 AUDLEY LN; 740 AUDLEY LN; 752 AUDLEY LN; 757 AUDLEY LN; 894 AUDLEY LN; 1170 AUDLEY LN; 1186 AUDLEY LN; 1188 AUDLEY LN; 1674 AUDLEY LN; 1697 AUDLEY LN; 12 NELLIE CUSTIS LN; 148 NELLIE CUSTIS LN; 572 NELLIE CUSTIS LN; 582 NELLIE CUSTIS LN; 701 NELLIE CUSTIS LN; 767 NELLIE CUSTIS LN
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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 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
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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
Audley carries the Virginia Department of Historic Resources file number 21-4 and was documented in the 1989 Clarke County Rural Reconnaissance Survey, which lists it among the county's vernacular brick houses. No individual listing for Audley was located in the Virginia Landmarks Register master list read on September 11, 2026, the edition updated through DHR January 21, 2026 and NPS January 16, 2026.
See the source and its limits
Audley carries the Virginia Department of Historic Resources file number 21-4 and was documented in the 1989 Clarke County Rural Reconnaissance Survey, which lists it among the county's vernacular brick houses. No individual listing for Audley was located in the Virginia Landmarks Register master list read on September 11, 2026, the edition updated through DHR January 21, 2026 and NPS January 16, 2026.
What the source supports
That Audley holds a state survey file and a DHR resource number, and what one specific document did and did not contain when it was read: the register master list carries more than forty Clarke County entries, Carter Hall and Blandy Experimental Farm among them, and no entry for Audley.
Uncertainty
Both documents were read as the text layer of a scanned PDF rather than as page images, and the survey is a 1989 typescript whose OCR is unreliable on the pages read: its type heading for this group reads VERNACULAR/BRICR, and other property names on the same pages come through broken. What was checked is one roster, on one date. That roster records individual listings on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register and nothing else, so the absence of an Audley entry is not a finding about the property's historic status generally. It says nothing about a DHR easement, and nothing about contributing status inside a listed rural historic district, which the roster records under the district's name rather than the property's; Long Marsh Run (021-0967), Chapel (021-5025) and Bear's Den (021-5010) are listed districts in this county and were not checked. The survey's remark about a family school at Audley is the surveyor citing Pope, not a record the survey read.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The Clarke County section of the register roster, in which Audley does not appear.
Virginia Landmarks Register master list, the edition updated through DHR January 21, 2026 and NPS January 16, 2026
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2026-01-21 (last update)
Locator: CLARKE COUNTY section, running from Greenway Court to Stone's Chapel
Relevant passageCLARKE COUNTY Greenway Court 09-09-1969 10-15-1966 021-0028 ... Carter Hall 06-19-1973 07-24-1973 021-0012 ... Blandy Experimental Farm 09-15-1992 11-12-1992 021-0550 ... Long Marsh Run Rural Historic District 06-19-1996 11-04-1996 021-0967 ... Stone's Chapel 06-20-2019 08-05-2019 021-0229
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-registers. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The survey's numerical index and type list, which carry Audley at 21-4.
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.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
See a related record at the Clarke County Historical Association
Also indexed as: Audley; Audley Farm & Buena Vista.
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