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A Federal-period house of about 1810 at 102 W. Main Street: residential at first, later a boarding house and tradesmen's quarters, from 1919 the Sign of the Motor Car Inn, and by one account the Battletown Inn from 1952 until it closed there by June 2015. The building is older than the inn name and outlived its use.
A Federal-period building of about 1810 that has been a residence, a boarding house, an automobile inn, a Rotary charter home, a Southern-cuisine restaurant, and a locked door with a sign in the window.
The Virginia Department of Historic Resources dates the Sarah Stribling house to 18101. The 1987 Berryville Historic District nomination inventories it at 102 West Main Street under the historic name Sarah Stribling House and the then-current name Battletown Inn, and identifies it as Federal in style2. Maral Kalbian of the Clarke County Historical Association is the source of the earliest attribution: the house was built in the first years of the 1800s for one of Benjamin Berry's daughters, who ran it and later boarded lodgers there3.
The building's twentieth-century identity turned over more than once. In 1919 the Elder family bought it and opened The Sign of the Motor Car Inn, listed in the 1920 Automobile Blue Book as a garage and service station as well as an inn — hospitality remade around a technology that had barely existed a generation earlier1. A 2015 Clarke Monthly feature says that the Battletown Inn 'we have known' began in what was then the Virginia Hotel at the southeast corner of Main and Church streets, and that the name moved to 102 West Main when the earlier inn's proprietors bought that property in 19522. The name migrated; the house stayed.
The Rotary Club of Clarke County held its Charter Night at the Battletown Inn on 10 October 1998, with Joseph Kerr securing the inn as the club's meeting place — twenty-six members, one building1. A 2013 Clarke Monthly feature named James Lynch and Ming Chan as co-owners since 2006, with a patio, refreshed rooms, new kitchen equipment, and the second-floor Gray Ghost Tavern serving fried green tomatoes and shrimp and grits2. By 17 June 2015 the paper reported the door locked with a sign promising a reopening that had not occurred; the Bernstein Family Foundation was the owner, making repairs and offering the property for sale3.
Eight claims across two centuries of one house. Sarah Stribling's Federal parlor has held boarders, drivers filling up on their way through the Valley, Rotary charter members raising a glass, and diners eating shrimp and grits at what used to be a corner tavern. What sits at 102 West Main today is the natural next question.
DHR dates the Sarah Stribling house, long associated with the Battletown Inn, to 1810.
The extant house has a date distinct from the settlement's earlier history.
The house is not identified here as the specific tavern in Gold's origin tale.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2024-09-16 (last update)
Locator: Final historical paragraph, Sarah Stribling house
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Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-08. How this project checks its sources
The 1987 Berryville Historic District nomination inventories 102 W. Main Street as the Sarah Stribling House (historic name) and Battletown Inn (present name), a Federal building of ca. 1810 whose original use was residential and whose use in 1987 was commercial, with a one-storey west wing and two-storey rear wings, then undergoing exterior restoration.
The surviving building's survey date, original use, later commercial use and 1987 condition, from the nomination inventory.
"Ca. 1810" is an architectural attribution, not a documented construction year; no deed, tax record or datestone was inspected. The nomination does not name a builder.
Evidence role: supports. The inventory entry's names, uses and date.
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 48, W. Main Street inventory, 102
Relevant passageSarah Stribling House-historic name. Battletown Inn-present name. Commercial-present use. Residential-original use. Federal. ca. 1810.
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Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The wings and the 1987 restoration.
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 48, W. Main Street inventory, 102, continued
Relevant passagestone foundation, two front entrances, interior end chimneys, 9 over 6 and 6 over 6 sash windows, 3-light transom over both entrances; 1-story west wing and 2-story rear wings; one of the oldest buildings in town currently undergoing exterior restoration
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Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. 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
The same feature, attributing the account to Maral Kalbian of the Clarke County Historical Association, says the house was built in the first years of the 1800s for Benjamin Berry's daughter, who ran a boarding house there, that it later housed the Showers family and their cabinetry and tailoring businesses through much of the nineteenth century, and that it "is said" to have been a hospital during the Civil War.
The reported pre-inn life of the house: family home, boarding house, tradesmen's premises.
Attributed local history with no record cited. The hospital line is expressly hearsay in the source and is not asserted; an archive finding-aid entry ("Motor Car Inn (Civil War Hospital)") is a lead, not verification. The daughter is not named in the passage; DHR's historic name supplies Sarah Stribling.
Evidence role: supports. The attributed paragraph.
Wendy Gooditis, Clarke Monthly · 2015-06-17 (publication)
Locator: Paragraph attributed to Maral Kalbian
Relevant passageIt was built in the first years of the 1800s as a house for the daughter of Mr. Berry, who ran a boarding house there. ... it housed the Showers family with their various businesses, including cabinetry and tailoring. It is said to have been a hospital during the Civil War.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. 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
The feature reports that in 1919 the Elder family bought the building and opened "The Sign of the Motor Car Inn", listed in the 1920 Automobile Blue Book as a garage and service station as well as an inn, and that it stayed in business until the Battletown Inn took it over in the early 1950s.
A separate, named business at 102 W. Main between the house's domestic phase and the Battletown Inn.
The Blue Book was not inspected. The takeover date is given loosely ("early 1950s") in this paragraph and as 1952 elsewhere in the same article.
Evidence role: supports. The 1919 opening, the Blue Book listing and the takeover.
Wendy Gooditis, Clarke Monthly · 2015-06-17 (publication)
Locator: Paragraphs on the Sign of the Motor Car Inn
Relevant passageIn 1919 ... the Elder family bought it and opened ... "The Sign of the Motor Car Inn." ... listed in the 1920 version of the Automobile Blue Book, Volume 3, as a garage and service station as well as an inn. ... it remained in business until the Battletown Inn took it over in the early 1950s
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: contextualizes. OCR of a 1925 newspaper page treats The Sign of the Motor Car and the Battletown Inn as two establishments.
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1925 (publication)
Locator: Issue of 4 June 1925, page 4 (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85025371/1925-06-04/ed-1/?sp=4): a social column naming a guest at The Sign of the Motor Car and, separately, guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Pulliam at the Battletown Inn. OCR text only; page image not seen.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-1925. 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
A 2015 Clarke Monthly feature says the Battletown Inn "we have known" began in what was then the Virginia Hotel at the southeast corner of Main and Church streets, and that the name moved to 102 W. Main when the earlier inn's proprietors bought that property in 1952.
The reported origin of the later inn at another site and the reported 1952 move of the name to the Sarah Stribling House.
A local retrospective naming no proprietors and citing no deed. Its "southeast corner of Main and Church" is not reconciled here with the nomination's 5 W. Main or 9-13 W. Main.
Evidence role: supports. The Virginia Hotel origin and the 1952 transfer.
Wendy Gooditis, Clarke Monthly · 2015-06-17 (publication)
Locator: Paragraph on the earlier inn and the name transfer
Relevant passageThe Battletown Inn we have known actually started a couple of blocks down in what was then the Virginia Hotel, on the southeast corner of Main and Church streets. ... The name moved over to the current location when it was bought by the erstwhile Battletown Inn proprietors in 1952.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. 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
The Rotary Club of Clarke County's history says its Charter Night, with 26 members, was held at the Battletown Inn on 10 October 1998, and that Joseph Kerr secured the inn as the club's meeting place.
The inn at 102 W. Main in use as a civic meeting place at the end of the 1990s.
The club's own account; it names neither the inn's owner nor its operator.
Evidence role: supports. The Charter Night sentence and the meeting-place sentence.
Rotary Club of Clarke County
Locator: Section "Clarke County, Virginia"
Relevant passageThe Club's Charter Night, with 26 members, was held at the Battletown Inn on October 10, 1998. ... secured the Battletown Inn as a meeting place
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Open sourceSource family: rotary-clarke-self. 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
A 2013 Clarke Monthly feature names James Lynch and Ming Chan as co-owners of the establishment since 2006, reports renovations (a patio, refreshed rooms and bathrooms, new kitchen equipment, no major structural change), and describes the second-floor Gray Ghost Tavern with a full-service bar, dishes such as fried green tomatoes and shrimp and grits, and live music, at 102 W. Main Street.
The inn as a working restaurant, tavern and lodging in 2013, and who said they ran it.
"Co-owner of the establishment" is the article's phrase and does not establish title to the real estate. The article's "built in 1809" and "restaurant off and on for more than two centuries" are not carried.
Evidence role: supports. The ownership statement and the renovations.
Ethan Vaughn, Clarke Monthly · 2013-04-16 (publication)
Locator: Opening paragraphs
Relevant passageJames Lynch, who, along with Ming Chan, has been a co-owner of the establishment since 2006. ... "We built a patio so people could dine outside, and we renovated all the rooms in the inn and added new equipment in kitchen. We didn't change a lot of structural aspects, though."
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The tavern, the dishes and the address.
Ethan Vaughn, Clarke Monthly · 2013-04-16 (publication)
Locator: Paragraphs on the tavern and the kitchen
Relevant passageThe kitchen can whip up some mean fried green tomatoes, and the shrimp and grits is considered a restaurant highlight. The Gray Ghost meanwhile, offers something that's hard to find in Berryville: a real, full-service bar. ... The Battletown Inn is located at 102, W. Main Street in Berryville.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. 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
By 17 June 2015 Clarke Monthly reported the inn's door locked, with a sign promising a reopening that had not occurred; it described a restaurant with several dining areas, an upstairs bar and private rooms, and a separate building of twelve guest rooms with private baths, nine finished, and named the Bernstein Family Foundation as the owner, making repairs and offering the property for sale.
The closure as reported in June 2015, the property's layout, and its reported owner at that date.
The final day of service is not stated anywhere inspected. No later reopening, successor business or present use has been verified; "currently" means 17 June 2015.
Evidence role: supports. The locked door, the guest-room building and the owner.
Wendy Gooditis, Clarke Monthly · 2015-06-17 (publication)
Locator: Opening paragraph and the paragraph on the property in 2015
Relevant passagefound it locked, with a sign that said it would reopen soon. But thus far, that has not occurred. ... a separate building with 12 guest rooms with private baths, nine of which are finished. ... currently owned by the Bernstein Family Foundation
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. 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
DHR dates the Sarah Stribling house, long associated with the Battletown Inn, to 1810.
DHR dates the Sarah Stribling house, long associated with the Battletown Inn, to 1810.
The extant house has a date distinct from the settlement's earlier history.
The house is not identified here as the specific tavern in Gold's origin tale.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2024-09-16 (last update)
Locator: Final historical paragraph, Sarah Stribling house
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-08. How this project checks its sources
The 1987 Berryville Historic District nomination inventories 102 W. Main Street as the Sarah Stribling House (historic name) and Battletown Inn (present name), a Federal building of ca. 1810 whose original use was residential and whose use in 1987 was commercial, with a one-storey west wing and two-storey rear wings, then undergoing exterior restoration.
The 1987 Berryville Historic District nomination inventories 102 W. Main Street as the Sarah Stribling House (historic name) and Battletown Inn (present name), a Federal building of ca. 1810 whose original use was residential and whose use in 1987 was commercial, with a one-storey west wing and two-storey rear wings, then undergoing exterior restoration.
The surviving building's survey date, original use, later commercial use and 1987 condition, from the nomination inventory.
"Ca. 1810" is an architectural attribution, not a documented construction year; no deed, tax record or datestone was inspected. The nomination does not name a builder.
Evidence role: supports. The inventory entry's names, uses and date.
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 48, W. Main Street inventory, 102
Relevant passageSarah Stribling House-historic name. Battletown Inn-present name. Commercial-present use. Residential-original use. Federal. ca. 1810.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The wings and the 1987 restoration.
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 48, W. Main Street inventory, 102, continued
Relevant passagestone foundation, two front entrances, interior end chimneys, 9 over 6 and 6 over 6 sash windows, 3-light transom over both entrances; 1-story west wing and 2-story rear wings; one of the oldest buildings in town currently undergoing exterior restoration
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. 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
A 2015 Clarke Monthly feature says the Battletown Inn "we have known" began in what was then the Virginia Hotel at the southeast corner of Main and Church streets, and that the name moved to 102 W. Main when the earlier inn's proprietors bought that property in 1952.
A 2015 Clarke Monthly feature says the Battletown Inn "we have known" began in what was then the Virginia Hotel at the southeast corner of Main and Church streets, and that the name moved to 102 W. Main when the earlier inn's proprietors bought that property in 1952.
The reported origin of the later inn at another site and the reported 1952 move of the name to the Sarah Stribling House.
A local retrospective naming no proprietors and citing no deed. Its "southeast corner of Main and Church" is not reconciled here with the nomination's 5 W. Main or 9-13 W. Main.
Evidence role: supports. The Virginia Hotel origin and the 1952 transfer.
Wendy Gooditis, Clarke Monthly · 2015-06-17 (publication)
Locator: Paragraph on the earlier inn and the name transfer
Relevant passageThe Battletown Inn we have known actually started a couple of blocks down in what was then the Virginia Hotel, on the southeast corner of Main and Church streets. ... The name moved over to the current location when it was bought by the erstwhile Battletown Inn proprietors in 1952.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. 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
The same feature, attributing the account to Maral Kalbian of the Clarke County Historical Association, says the house was built in the first years of the 1800s for Benjamin Berry's daughter, who ran a boarding house there, that it later housed the Showers family and their cabinetry and tailoring businesses through much of the nineteenth century, and that it "is said" to have been a hospital during the Civil War.
The same feature, attributing the account to Maral Kalbian of the Clarke County Historical Association, says the house was built in the first years of the 1800s for Benjamin Berry's daughter, who ran a boarding house there, that it later housed the Showers family and their cabinetry and tailoring businesses through much of the nineteenth century, and that it "is said" to have been a hospital during the Civil War.
The reported pre-inn life of the house: family home, boarding house, tradesmen's premises.
Attributed local history with no record cited. The hospital line is expressly hearsay in the source and is not asserted; an archive finding-aid entry ("Motor Car Inn (Civil War Hospital)") is a lead, not verification. The daughter is not named in the passage; DHR's historic name supplies Sarah Stribling.
Evidence role: supports. The attributed paragraph.
Wendy Gooditis, Clarke Monthly · 2015-06-17 (publication)
Locator: Paragraph attributed to Maral Kalbian
Relevant passageIt was built in the first years of the 1800s as a house for the daughter of Mr. Berry, who ran a boarding house there. ... it housed the Showers family with their various businesses, including cabinetry and tailoring. It is said to have been a hospital during the Civil War.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. 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
The feature reports that in 1919 the Elder family bought the building and opened "The Sign of the Motor Car Inn", listed in the 1920 Automobile Blue Book as a garage and service station as well as an inn, and that it stayed in business until the Battletown Inn took it over in the early 1950s.
The feature reports that in 1919 the Elder family bought the building and opened "The Sign of the Motor Car Inn", listed in the 1920 Automobile Blue Book as a garage and service station as well as an inn, and that it stayed in business until the Battletown Inn took it over in the early 1950s.
A separate, named business at 102 W. Main between the house's domestic phase and the Battletown Inn.
The Blue Book was not inspected. The takeover date is given loosely ("early 1950s") in this paragraph and as 1952 elsewhere in the same article.
Evidence role: supports. The 1919 opening, the Blue Book listing and the takeover.
Wendy Gooditis, Clarke Monthly · 2015-06-17 (publication)
Locator: Paragraphs on the Sign of the Motor Car Inn
Relevant passageIn 1919 ... the Elder family bought it and opened ... "The Sign of the Motor Car Inn." ... listed in the 1920 version of the Automobile Blue Book, Volume 3, as a garage and service station as well as an inn. ... it remained in business until the Battletown Inn took it over in the early 1950s
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: contextualizes. OCR of a 1925 newspaper page treats The Sign of the Motor Car and the Battletown Inn as two establishments.
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1925 (publication)
Locator: Issue of 4 June 1925, page 4 (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85025371/1925-06-04/ed-1/?sp=4): a social column naming a guest at The Sign of the Motor Car and, separately, guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Pulliam at the Battletown Inn. OCR text only; page image not seen.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-1925. 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
The Rotary Club of Clarke County's history says its Charter Night, with 26 members, was held at the Battletown Inn on 10 October 1998, and that Joseph Kerr secured the inn as the club's meeting place.
The Rotary Club of Clarke County's history says its Charter Night, with 26 members, was held at the Battletown Inn on 10 October 1998, and that Joseph Kerr secured the inn as the club's meeting place.
The inn at 102 W. Main in use as a civic meeting place at the end of the 1990s.
The club's own account; it names neither the inn's owner nor its operator.
Evidence role: supports. The Charter Night sentence and the meeting-place sentence.
Rotary Club of Clarke County
Locator: Section "Clarke County, Virginia"
Relevant passageThe Club's Charter Night, with 26 members, was held at the Battletown Inn on October 10, 1998. ... secured the Battletown Inn as a meeting place
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: rotary-clarke-self. 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
A 2013 Clarke Monthly feature names James Lynch and Ming Chan as co-owners of the establishment since 2006, reports renovations (a patio, refreshed rooms and bathrooms, new kitchen equipment, no major structural change), and describes the second-floor Gray Ghost Tavern with a full-service bar, dishes such as fried green tomatoes and shrimp and grits, and live music, at 102 W. Main Street.
A 2013 Clarke Monthly feature names James Lynch and Ming Chan as co-owners of the establishment since 2006, reports renovations (a patio, refreshed rooms and bathrooms, new kitchen equipment, no major structural change), and describes the second-floor Gray Ghost Tavern with a full-service bar, dishes such as fried green tomatoes and shrimp and grits, and live music, at 102 W. Main Street.
The inn as a working restaurant, tavern and lodging in 2013, and who said they ran it.
"Co-owner of the establishment" is the article's phrase and does not establish title to the real estate. The article's "built in 1809" and "restaurant off and on for more than two centuries" are not carried.
Evidence role: supports. The ownership statement and the renovations.
Ethan Vaughn, Clarke Monthly · 2013-04-16 (publication)
Locator: Opening paragraphs
Relevant passageJames Lynch, who, along with Ming Chan, has been a co-owner of the establishment since 2006. ... "We built a patio so people could dine outside, and we renovated all the rooms in the inn and added new equipment in kitchen. We didn't change a lot of structural aspects, though."
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The tavern, the dishes and the address.
Ethan Vaughn, Clarke Monthly · 2013-04-16 (publication)
Locator: Paragraphs on the tavern and the kitchen
Relevant passageThe kitchen can whip up some mean fried green tomatoes, and the shrimp and grits is considered a restaurant highlight. The Gray Ghost meanwhile, offers something that's hard to find in Berryville: a real, full-service bar. ... The Battletown Inn is located at 102, W. Main Street in Berryville.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. 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
By 17 June 2015 Clarke Monthly reported the inn's door locked, with a sign promising a reopening that had not occurred; it described a restaurant with several dining areas, an upstairs bar and private rooms, and a separate building of twelve guest rooms with private baths, nine finished, and named the Bernstein Family Foundation as the owner, making repairs and offering the property for sale.
By 17 June 2015 Clarke Monthly reported the inn's door locked, with a sign promising a reopening that had not occurred; it described a restaurant with several dining areas, an upstairs bar and private rooms, and a separate building of twelve guest rooms with private baths, nine finished, and named the Bernstein Family Foundation as the owner, making repairs and offering the property for sale.
The closure as reported in June 2015, the property's layout, and its reported owner at that date.
The final day of service is not stated anywhere inspected. No later reopening, successor business or present use has been verified; "currently" means 17 June 2015.
Evidence role: supports. The locked door, the guest-room building and the owner.
Wendy Gooditis, Clarke Monthly · 2015-06-17 (publication)
Locator: Opening paragraph and the paragraph on the property in 2015
Relevant passagefound it locked, with a sign that said it would reopen soon. But thus far, that has not occurred. ... a separate building with 12 guest rooms with private baths, nine of which are finished. ... currently owned by the Bernstein Family Foundation
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. 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 a related record at the Clarke County Historical Association
Also indexed as: Battletown Inn; Sarah Stribling house; 102 W. Main Street.
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The crossroads settlement that became Berryville was called Battletown. Three accounts explain the name, they do not agree, and the town kept answering to it anyway.
Fact or Fable? Name documented. Origin unconfirmed.
A hospitality name that traveled along West Main Street, and the Federal-period house it settled in for sixty years.
What the evidence says Building documented; name transfer reported; closure reported; earlier site unresolved.