Liberty Street, Berryville
A Berryville street where the People's Journal listed H. W. Jackson's Lunch and Ice-Cream in 1924, and where the Clarke County Oil Company was finishing a new office beside the Norfolk and Western tracks in 1925.
What the sources support
The People's Journal of October 1, 1924 carried H. W. Jackson, Lunch and Ice-Cream, Liberty Street, Berryville, among its businesses.
See the source and its limits
The People's Journal of October 1, 1924 carried H. W. Jackson, Lunch and Ice-Cream, Liberty Street, Berryville, among its businesses.
What the source supports
That a lunch and ice-cream business under H. W. Jackson's name was listed on Liberty Street, Berryville, in 1924.
Uncertainty
The wording is a transcription of the People's Journal, which condenses some entries; the newspaper OCR was not re-read for this claim. The printed page was not recorded, and the reading notes list it under businesses without saying whether it was an advertisement. The building is not identified.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The October 1924 listing.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 October 1924, Vol. XXX No. 332
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1924-10-01 (publication)
Locator: Business listing, printed page not recorded
Relevant passageH. W. Jackson -- Lunch and Ice-Cream, Liberty Street, Berryville.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: peoples-journal. 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 Clarke Courier of February 26, 1925 reported that the new office building the Clarke County Oil Company had been erecting was near completion at the corner of Liberty Street along the Norfolk and Western tracks.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of February 26, 1925 reported that the new office building the Clarke County Oil Company had been erecting was near completion at the corner of Liberty Street along the Norfolk and Western tracks.
What the source supports
That a local oil company was finishing an office in 1925 at a corner of Liberty Street beside the Norfolk and Western tracks.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. "at th" is read as "at the". The item names neither the cross street nor the building's address. It does not name the town either, though it speaks of the company's new manager returning to Berryville. Nothing is claimed about the building after 1925.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The February 1925 item on the oil company office.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 26, 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-02-26 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, item headed C. D. Kercheval Returns Here
Relevant passage... general manager of the Clarke County Oil Company. The new office building which the local company has been erecting Is near completion at th [the] corner of Liberty street along the Norfolk and Western tracks.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. 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
See a related record at the Clarke County Historical Association
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