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A Clarke County community named in the 1927 Clarke County School League committee list, with Geo. Carter as its representative. The same name appears elsewhere in the paper as a subscriber address.
A Clarke County community named in the People's Journal's August 1927 School League committee as one of seven communities represented.
The Clarke County School League committee printed in August 1927 lists a named representative for each of seven Clarke County communities: Berryville, Boyce, Louisville, Millwood, Stone Bridge, Webbtown, and Josephine City1. Webbtown's inclusion in the committee documents it as a distinct Clarke community with its own delegate in the county's Black civic body — evidence at the smallest scale for the county's dispersed Black settlement pattern.
One claim establishes Webbtown's School League participation in 1927. The community's own founding, its extent, and its own institutions are outside the corpus's current record; the 1992 county architectural survey and the county GIS layers are the natural next reads.
The Clarke County School League committee printed in August 1927 lists a named representative for each of seven Clarke County communities: Berryville, Boyce, Louisville, Millwood, Stone Bridge, Webbtown and White Post.
That the League organised itself by community with one named person for each, and that Stone Bridge and Webbtown were treated as Clarke County communities with their own representatives.
A committee list. It does not establish that these were the only communities involved, nor anything about the size, boundaries or location of any of them. No coordinates are claimed for Stone Bridge or Webbtown, and neither has been located on any map.
Evidence role: supports. The committee list within the same announcement, community by community.
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1927-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, announcement and committee list
Relevant passageCLARKE COUNTY FALL MEET AT BOYCE, VA. FRIDAY, SEP. 16, 1927. In Mr. R. P. Page's Woods. This Basket Picnic is under the auspices of the Clarke County School League; and the League will spare no pains to make this one of most enjoyable functions of Vacation Season. Contests and Field Sports, Baseball Contest a Specialty. COMMITTEE: Rev. E. T. Johnson, President, Mr. Jacob Jackson, Berryville, Miss Hannah Randolph, Boyce, Mr. Geo. Edwards, Louisville, Mr. DeRoy Layton, Millwood, Mr. Jno. Togging [Toggins], Stone Bridge, Mr. Geo. Carter, Webbtown, Mr. Edward Crittenden, White Post, Mrs. Alma B. Layton, Sec'ty.
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) · 2026-09-08. How this project checks its sources
The Clarke County School League committee printed in August 1927 lists a named representative for each of seven Clarke County communities: Berryville, Boyce, Louisville, Millwood, Stone Bridge, Webbtown and White Post.
The Clarke County School League committee printed in August 1927 lists a named representative for each of seven Clarke County communities: Berryville, Boyce, Louisville, Millwood, Stone Bridge, Webbtown and White Post.
That the League organised itself by community with one named person for each, and that Stone Bridge and Webbtown were treated as Clarke County communities with their own representatives.
A committee list. It does not establish that these were the only communities involved, nor anything about the size, boundaries or location of any of them. No coordinates are claimed for Stone Bridge or Webbtown, and neither has been located on any map.
Evidence role: supports. The committee list within the same announcement, community by community.
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1927-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, announcement and committee list
Relevant passageCLARKE COUNTY FALL MEET AT BOYCE, VA. FRIDAY, SEP. 16, 1927. In Mr. R. P. Page's Woods. This Basket Picnic is under the auspices of the Clarke County School League; and the League will spare no pains to make this one of most enjoyable functions of Vacation Season. Contests and Field Sports, Baseball Contest a Specialty. COMMITTEE: Rev. E. T. Johnson, President, Mr. Jacob Jackson, Berryville, Miss Hannah Randolph, Boyce, Mr. Geo. Edwards, Louisville, Mr. DeRoy Layton, Millwood, Mr. Jno. Togging [Toggins], Stone Bridge, Mr. Geo. Carter, Webbtown, Mr. Edward Crittenden, White Post, Mrs. Alma B. Layton, Sec'ty.
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) · 2026-09-08. How this project checks its sources
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The Clarke Courier called it the County League of Negro schools. The People's Journal called it the Clarke County School League. It had $28 when it started and $1,265.95 eleven months later.
What the evidence says Two independent newspapers. Four identifications, each marked as ours.