Josephine Street
The street of Josephine City: the historic-district nomination places the community's 31 lots on either side of it, and the index to Kalbian's 1992 survey lists nineteen resources along it.
What the sources support
The National Register nomination for the Josephine City Historic District describes the community's 31 lots, mostly of one acre, as lying 16 on the south side and 15 on the north of what is now Josephine Street, and says the founding deed stipulated a road at least 16 feet wide, taken off the front of every lot.
See the source and its limits
The National Register nomination for the Josephine City Historic District describes the community's 31 lots, mostly of one acre, as lying 16 on the south side and 15 on the north of what is now Josephine Street, and says the founding deed stipulated a road at least 16 feet wide, taken off the front of every lot.
What the source supports
That the Josephine City lots were laid out on both sides of what is now Josephine Street, and that the founding deed required a road through the tract.
Uncertainty
The wording is this project's reading notes on the nomination, which condense it, and the notes do not record the nomination's page for this passage. That the deed's 16-foot road is the present Josephine Street is probable from the arrangement of the lots, but the notes do not say so in terms. The deed itself was not read.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The nomination notes on the lots and the deed's road.
Josephine City Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-5029
Maral S. Kalbian and Margaret T. Peters (Maral S. Kalbian, LLC) · 2014-12-01 (creation)
Locator: The nomination's account of the founding: the lots and the deed's road
Relevant passage31 lots, mostly one acre: 16 on the south side, 15 on the north of what is now Josephine Street. The deed stipulates a road at least 16 feet wide ... the land taken off the front of every lot.
Checked: Original inspected. A digital reproduction was inspected; no original has been handled.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-nominations. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-14. How this project checks its sources
The alphabetical index to Maral S. Kalbian's 1992 reconnaissance survey of Clarke County lists nineteen surveyed resources on Josephine Street, all on the Berryville quadrangle map, with house numbers from 15 to 312 and two printed without a number.
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The alphabetical index to Maral S. Kalbian's 1992 reconnaissance survey of Clarke County lists nineteen surveyed resources on Josephine Street, all on the Berryville quadrangle map, with house numbers from 15 to 312 and two printed without a number.
What the source supports
That the 1992 survey recorded nineteen resources along Josephine Street, most of them under street addresses.
Uncertainty
An index row gives a survey number, an address and a quadrangle map, and nothing about the resource itself; two rows print a question mark in place of a house number. The survey covers structures of 1900 to 1941, but an index row is not evidence of any one building's date. The excerpt shows four of the nineteen rows.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The Josephine Street rows of the survey index.
Reconnaissance Level Survey of 1900-1941 Structures in Clarke County, Virginia, Final Report, DHR CK-009
Maral S. Kalbian · 1992 (publication)
Locator: PDF page 86 (report page 74), Appendix I, Clarke County alphabetical index: four of its nineteen Josephine Street rows, the others omitted
Relevant passage21 157 ? Josephine Street; 21 165 ? Josephine Street; 21 173 105 Josephine Street ... 21 163 312 Josephine Street
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) · 2026-09-14. How this project checks its sources
The 2015 Josephine City Historic District nomination states that the 1882 schoolhouse was moved from its original Josephine Street location to its current one, around 100 feet south, ca. 1930.
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The 2015 Josephine City Historic District nomination states that the 1882 schoolhouse was moved from its original Josephine Street location to its current one, around 100 feet south, ca. 1930.
What the source supports
The nomination's account of the move, with the distance it gives; consistent with the 1930 move already recorded from the school's own register entry.
Uncertainty
This is the nomination author's narrative. "Ca. 1930" is the source's own approximation and is kept; no school-board minute or deed for the move was inspected.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The nomination's statement of the move and its distance, given twice in the document.
Josephine City Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-5029
Maral S. Kalbian and Margaret T. Peters (Maral S. Kalbian, LLC) · 2014-12-01 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 9, Section 7 summary; repeated at PDF page 23, inventory entry for 303 Josephine Street. Same statement at page 23: "The building was constructed in 1882 and was moved from its original location to its current location, around 100 feet south, ca. 1930."
Relevant passageIt was moved from its original location on Josephine Street to its current one, around 100 feet south, ca. 1930.
Checked: Original inspected. A digital reproduction was inspected; no original has been handled.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-nominations. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
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