Smalley Package Company
A Berryville pallet producer that a 1989 county survey named as one of the town's three major industries. When it began, who owned it, how many it employed and what became of it are all outside the record here.
Smalley Package Company
A Berryville pallet producer named in a county architectural survey as one of the town's three major industries in 1989. Whether the company still operates, when it began, who owns it, and how many it employs are open questions in the corpus.
Kalbian's 1989 county survey lists Smalley Package Company as one of the three major industries located in Berryville — pallets1. A three-item industrial roster is a compact county summary, and being on it in 1989 places Smalley as a significant local employer in the town's late-industrial period.
Kalbian's 1992 survey repeats the 1989 survey's three-industry sentence verbatim, again naming Smalley as a pallet producer1. The 1992 mention is not an independent second observation — it is the same sentence copied forward three years later. Worth naming here because a repeated citation can look like a second attestation when it is not.
Two claims establish what the county surveys said, and — importantly — that the two surveys' Smalley mentions are one observation, not two. Missing: the company's founding date, its ownership, its employee count, its precise Berryville premises, whether it is still operating, and any local business-directory or trade-publication history. The Berryville business directory and the county business licence file are the natural next targets.
Evidence
See the source and its limits
Kalbian's 1989 survey lists Smalley Package Company, producer of pallets, as one of the three major industries located in Berryville.
What the source supports
That a pallet producer of this name was operating in Berryville, as observed in 1989.
Uncertainty
An observation at survey date. It establishes no founding year, ownership, workforce, customers or later status, and "major" is the surveyor's judgement.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The survey's industry sentence.
Clarke County Rural Reconnaissance Survey, DHR CK-015
Maral S. Kalbian · 1989 (publication)
Locator: PDF page 96, narrative theme E, "World War I to the Present 1914-1989", industry
Relevant passageBerryville is the industrial center of Clarke County for products other than agricultural ones. The three major industries located there are: Smalley Package Company, producer of pallets; Doubleday, manufacturer of books; and American Woodmark, manufacturer of cabinets.
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 Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
See the source and its limits
Kalbian's 1992 survey repeats the 1989 survey's three-industry sentence verbatim, naming Smalley Package Company as a producer of pallets; it is not an independent second observation.
What the source supports
That the 1992 report carries the same statement, and that the two reports are one witness on this point.
Uncertainty
A verbatim repeat by the same author. It does not extend the company's attested operation to 1992 as a fresh observation, and this project does not treat it as one.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The repeated sentence.
Reconnaissance Level Survey of 1900-1941 Structures in Clarke County, Virginia, Final Report, DHR CK-009
Maral S. Kalbian · 1992 (publication)
Locator: PDF page 74 (report page 65), narrative theme E, industry. Verbatim repeat of the 1989 survey's sentence.
Relevant passageThe three major industries located there are: Smalley Package Company, producer of pallets; Doubleday, manufacturer of books; and American Woodmark, manufacturer of cabinets.
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: contextualizes. The 1989 original of the same sentence.
Clarke County Rural Reconnaissance Survey, DHR CK-015
Maral S. Kalbian · 1989 (publication)
Locator: PDF page 96, narrative theme E, "World War I to the Present 1914-1989", industry
Relevant passageBerryville is the industrial center of Clarke County for products other than agricultural ones. The three major industries located there are: Smalley Package Company, producer of pallets; Doubleday, manufacturer of books; and American Woodmark, manufacturer of cabinets.
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 Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
What the sources support
Kalbian's 1989 survey lists Smalley Package Company, producer of pallets, as one of the three major industries located in Berryville.
See the source and its limits
Kalbian's 1989 survey lists Smalley Package Company, producer of pallets, as one of the three major industries located in Berryville.
What the source supports
That a pallet producer of this name was operating in Berryville, as observed in 1989.
Uncertainty
An observation at survey date. It establishes no founding year, ownership, workforce, customers or later status, and "major" is the surveyor's judgement.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The survey's industry sentence.
Clarke County Rural Reconnaissance Survey, DHR CK-015
Maral S. Kalbian · 1989 (publication)
Locator: PDF page 96, narrative theme E, "World War I to the Present 1914-1989", industry
Relevant passageBerryville is the industrial center of Clarke County for products other than agricultural ones. The three major industries located there are: Smalley Package Company, producer of pallets; Doubleday, manufacturer of books; and American Woodmark, manufacturer of cabinets.
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 Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
Kalbian's 1992 survey repeats the 1989 survey's three-industry sentence verbatim, naming Smalley Package Company as a producer of pallets; it is not an independent second observation.
See the source and its limits
Kalbian's 1992 survey repeats the 1989 survey's three-industry sentence verbatim, naming Smalley Package Company as a producer of pallets; it is not an independent second observation.
What the source supports
That the 1992 report carries the same statement, and that the two reports are one witness on this point.
Uncertainty
A verbatim repeat by the same author. It does not extend the company's attested operation to 1992 as a fresh observation, and this project does not treat it as one.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The repeated sentence.
Reconnaissance Level Survey of 1900-1941 Structures in Clarke County, Virginia, Final Report, DHR CK-009
Maral S. Kalbian · 1992 (publication)
Locator: PDF page 74 (report page 65), narrative theme E, industry. Verbatim repeat of the 1989 survey's sentence.
Relevant passageThe three major industries located there are: Smalley Package Company, producer of pallets; Doubleday, manufacturer of books; and American Woodmark, manufacturer of cabinets.
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: contextualizes. The 1989 original of the same sentence.
Clarke County Rural Reconnaissance Survey, DHR CK-015
Maral S. Kalbian · 1989 (publication)
Locator: PDF page 96, narrative theme E, "World War I to the Present 1914-1989", industry
Relevant passageBerryville is the industrial center of Clarke County for products other than agricultural ones. The three major industries located there are: Smalley Package Company, producer of pallets; Doubleday, manufacturer of books; and American Woodmark, manufacturer of cabinets.
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 Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
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