Clarke County Training School

The 2015 Josephine City Historic District nomination records, among the district's contributing resources, the 1930 former Clarke County Training School, Virginia Department of Historic Resources number 168-5029-0048, which it says was later known as Johnson-Williams High School and was in use as low-income elderly housing when the nomination was written.

The 2000 Millwood Colored School nomination names the W.B.T. Williams Training School in Berryville in a March 1949 school board bond proposal of $180,000, which was to complete a new elementary school in Berryville and to pay for additions to the Boyce High School and to that training school.

The 2015 Josephine City Historic District nomination says the previously all-Black Johnson-Williams High School, at the southeastern edge of the district, became the integrated Johnson-Williams Middle School in 1966.

The 2004 multiple property documentation form for Rosenwald Schools in Virginia lists, in its statewide table of schools sorted by date of construction, a Berryville School in Clarke County under the construction years 1930-31.

The Clarke Courier of April 17, 1930 reported that the contract for the erection of the colored school building had been awarded to Kelley and Kelley, contractors of Bluemont, Va., at $17,350.00, less $407.00 for a one-pipe modulating heating plant instead of the two-pipe system and less fifty cents per cubic yard for excavation made by the patrons of the school. The building was to be of 8-inch cinder block faced with 4-inch brick, with an auditorium and four separate classrooms and two more cut off from the auditorium by folding doors; it would be for the use of the Clarke County Training School, with instruction in vocational agriculture as a feature. The Courier of May 15, 1930 said the School Board of Clarke County had awarded the contract a few weeks earlier, at the same price and deductions.

The Clarke Courier of June 12, 1930 printed E. T. Johnson's account of the cornerstone day. It rained. The parade started ahead of time, led by the Charles Town band and the Odd Fellows of Millwood, with the schools and communities following alphabetically, Berryville, Boyce, Bristoe, Louisville, Millwood, Stone Bridge and White Post. It moved down Liberty Street to Railroad Street, up Main into Church, and out Church into Josephine; the speeches were made between showers; and after three attempts the stone was placed in the north east corner of the Clarke County Training School.

The John F. Slater Fund's Proceedings and Reports for the year ending September 30, 1930 prints a "List of 384 Schools 1929-30," the county training schools on its roll, state by state, in which the figure after each county is the number of years its school had been on the list. Under Virginia it lists Clarke 2, post office Berryville, superintendent A. F. Robinson, principal E. T. Johnson. The report's section on county training schools says the fund had aided in establishing them since the session of 1911-12.