J. F. McDonald
Superintendent of the Berryville and Charles Town and Berryville and Summit Point turnpikes in Battletown District for thirteen years and nine months to January 1922, whose tolls of $37,272.37 paid for four concrete bridges and thirteen culverts.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of January 12, 1922 prints figures compiled by J. F. McDonald, superintendent of the Berryville and Charles Town and Berryville and Summit Point turnpike roads in Battletown District, covering the thirteen years and nine months of his incumbency: $37,272.37 collected in tolls, from which, the item says, salaries and upkeep were paid and four concrete bridges and thirteen iron pipe culverts were built.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of January 12, 1922 prints figures compiled by J. F. McDonald, superintendent of the Berryville and Charles Town and Berryville and Summit Point turnpike roads in Battletown District, covering the thirteen years and nine months of his incumbency: $37,272.37 collected in tolls, from which, the item says, salaries and upkeep were paid and four concrete bridges and thirteen iron pipe culverts were built.
What the source supports
That J. F. McDonald had been superintendent of two Battletown District turnpikes for thirteen years and nine months by January 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The figures are his own, as the item says. It does not give the dates of his incumbency.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The January 12, 1922 item.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., January 12, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-01-12 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, item "J. F. McDonald Makes Record With Road"
Relevant passagej. f. McDonald makes RECORD WITH ROAD. In 13 Years He Has Collected ^ $37,000 in Toll and Built 4 Concrete Bridges, 13 Culverts ... the figures compiled by Mr. J. F. McDonald, Superintendent of the Berryville and Charles Town andBerryville and Summit Point turnpike roads in Battletown district. These figures rov [cover] receipts and expenditures for a period of 13. years and nine months , the time of Mr. McDonald’s incumbency. In this length of time there has been collected in tolls the sum of $37,272.37
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