Clarke County through time
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The valley belonged to Indigenous peoples for at least twelve thousand years.
Two Clovis points at site 44CK26 place human presence in what is now Clarke County at least 12,000 years ago, and living Native nations remain today, with their own governments. The dated entries below begin centuries later, in the 1680s, because the released event record kept on this site is sparse for everything earlier — a gap in what has been cataloged here, not the length of the valley’s history.
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155 years touched. 81 released events. 1120 released claims with dated content. Range: 1688–2026.
Before Clarke was Clarke. This site's dated record for the colonial-frontier era is very thin. What is known about the northern Shenandoah Valley before European settlement — archaeological evidence, treaty history, and the living Native nations whose ancestral connections reach through the region — lives on the Indigenous Clarke page.
1688 — 2 records
- 1688 A proprietary boundary nobody could locate
- 1688 Hofstra's account says the 1688 charter to Thomas, Lord Culpeper, inherited by the sixth Lord Fairfax, described the Northern Neck proprietary as the land between the Potomac and the Rappahannock exte
1728 — 3 records
- 1728-06-13 The colony grants 26,000 acres near the forks of the Shenandoah
- 1728 Hofstra's account dates a grant of 26,000 acres by Governor William Gooch and the Council to Larkin and Thomas Chew, near the forks of the Shenandoah, to June 13, 1728, with a further 240,000 acres gr
- 1728 Hofstra contrasts the two granting regimes directly: the colony required one family settled per thousand acres and recruited small farmers from Europe and the middle colonies, while Carter, he writes,
1730 — 2 records
- 1730-09-22 Robert Carter grants the proprietary's Valley land to his own family
- 1730 Hofstra's account says that on September 22, 1730 Robert Carter, as Lord Fairfax's agent, granted more than 50,000 acres to his own sons and grandsons, and more than 11,000 acres to his son-in-law Man
1734 — 2 records
- 1734 Fairfax formalizes two settlement policies at once
- 1734 Hofstra's account says Lord Fairfax, arriving in 1734, formalized the dual pattern of settlement Gooch and Carter had set up.
1740 — 2 records
- 1740 The Carter grant is divided among eight heirs
- 1740 Hofstra's account says eight heirs divided Robert Carter's 50,212 acres into eight tracts of between 3,528 and 8,365 acres in 1740, and that Mann Page's tract was sold to Ralph Wormeley in 1748.
1748 — 1 record
- 1748 Mann Page's tract passes to Ralph Wormeley
1750 — 2 records
- 1750 West of the Opequon is taken up; east of it lies deserted
- 1750 Hofstra places the settlement line at the Opequon: when Fairfax opened his Valley land office in the early 1750s, he writes, little limestone land west of the Opequon remained to be settled, but to th
1752 — 1 record
- 1752 Encyclopedia Virginia's entry on George Rogers Clark, by Donald W. Gunter, says he was born on November 19, 1752, near Charlottesville in Albemarle County, grew up on his family's farm in Caroline Cou
1755 — 1 record
- 1755 The 1987 Berryville Historic District nomination states that the crossroads settlement was known before 1798 as Battletown, and that earlier in the eighteenth century the area was an 800-acre estate o
1770 — 3 records
- 1770 The quarter comes to east Frederick
- 1770 Hofstra writes that Robert Carter, John Page, Nathaniel Burwell and Hugh Nelson all operated quarters in the Valley during the 1770s and 1780s, and that through them they introduced to east Frederick
- 1770 Hofstra names five houses built by the men who held east Frederick: Nathaniel Burwell’s Carter Hall, which he calls a direct reference to the country houses of the English aristocracy, Robert Carter B
1772 — 1 record
- 1772 Gold's 1914 history, under the page heading "Berryville Baptist Church," says that in 1772 Daniel and William Fristoe, brothers and Baptist preachers from Stafford County, began preaching in private h
1786 — 1 record
- 1786 Gold's 1914 history says that Rev. James Ireland "became the pastor of the church in 1786, and continued to serve the church until his death in 1806."
1789 — 2 records
- 1789 Old Chapel is reorganized as the Episcopal church
- 1789 Hofstra's account says Old Chapel, reorganized in 1789 as the Episcopal church, came to dominate all religious life east of the Opequon.
1798 — 1 record
- 1798 Berryville is incorporated
1800 — 1 record
- 1800 Graham reports, from Hill's manuscripts, that Morgan in his last illness was asked about a crooked toe and answered that he got it "in a fight I had with Bill Davis, and in kicking him, at Battletown"
1810 — 1 record
- 1810 The Sarah Stribling House is built
1816 — 1 record
- 1816 James Kirke Paulding, writing of an 1816 excursion, recorded that the people west of the Blue Ridge called those east of the mountain Tuckahoes and their country Old Virginia, while calling themselves
1817 — 1 record
- 1817 Paulding prints Tuckahoe and Cohee, and draws the line at the Blue Ridge
1824 — 1 record
- 1824 Oliver Bliss’s tombstone, copied into the record, calls him "Instructor in the Millwood neighborhood," a native of Wilbraham, Massachusetts, graduated Yale College in 1795, and died September 19, 1824
1830 — 1 record
- 1830 Treadwell Smith buys the house and keeps an ordinary
1832 — 2 records
- 1832 John O’Connor served in the War of 1812, 4th Virginia Regiment, as a substitute for his brother Dennis O’Connor; he died at Millwood March 1, 1832.
- 1832 The record’s entry for Mrs. Matthew Page of "Annefield," Anne Randolph Meade, states that after her husband Matthew Page died in 1826 she began final preparations for "liberating her slaves and sendin
1833 — 7 records
- 1833-12-30 A petition to divide Frederick County reaches the House of Delegates
- 1833 The Winchester Virginia Republican of January 11, 1834 reported the Virginia House of Delegates proceedings of Monday, December 30, at which Mr. Gallaher presented a petition for the division of Frede
- 1833 The Virginia Free Press of September 12, 1833 reported a public meeting at Berryville on the previous Saturday on dividing Frederick County, and said the people of the proposed new county were "almost
- 1833 The east Frederick petition, printed in the Virginia Free Press on November 21, 1833, cited the 1833 count by Wilford G. Settle, commissioner of the revenue, of the people taxed in the proposed county
- 1833 The petition objected to paying for a new courthouse in Winchester and a jail to match it, saying the people of the eastern district would bear a large share of the cost without being consulted.
- 1833 The petition of 1833 went to the legislature as a printed pamphlet, "The Memorial and Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the Eastern Part of Frederick County, praying The Formation of a New County," pr
- 1833 Printed remonstrances from the rest of Frederick, signed by hundreds, opposed "the prayer of the petitioners from Berryville and its neighborhood."
1834 — 7 records
- 1834-03-29 The division is argued in print, and the taunts of poverty are attested
- 1834 The Winchester Virginia Republican of March 29, 1834 carried signed pieces arguing the division, printed immediately before an election. One opponent declined to repeat the taunts of poverty thrown ou
- 1834 Gold's 1914 history quotes Bishop Meade as saying that in 1834 "it was found that the Old Chapel was too small and inconvenient for the increasing congregation," that it was determined to build anothe
- 1834 On January 14, 1834 the House of Delegates reversed its committee's finding that the petition for a new county out of eastern Frederick was reasonable, by 76 votes to 53.
- 1834 Before the April 1834 election, the Winchester Virginia Republican of March 29 printed letters on both sides: one closing with a call to choose "internal improvement and the integrity of OLD FREDERICK
- 1834 Frederick re-elected its three sitting delegates in the spring of 1834, all opposed to division; the Genius of Liberty, citing the Winchester Virginian, said the division "merged every other considera
- 1834 The House of Delegates received the 1833 petition on December 11, 1833 and referred it to its committee of propositions; on January 1, 1834 the committee found it "Reasonable."
1835 — 8 records
- 1835 Roberta W. Page, child of Dr. Matthew and Mary C. Page of "Longwood," died of burns September 25, 1835, aged 5, when her skirts caught fire while she was staying at "Prospect Hill."
- 1835 In February 1835 the House of Delegates refused, 61 to 49, to reject the renewed petition for a new county out of eastern Frederick, and a bill was ordered.
- 1835 On February 25, 1835 the House postponed the bill forming a new county out of part of Frederick indefinitely, by 47 votes to 44.
- 1835 In Frederick's election of April 1835, John B. D. Smith won votes "exclusively on account of his exertions against the division of the county," the Winchester Virginian reported in an item the Richmon
- 1835 The second petition, received December 4, 1834, was found "Reasonable" by the committee on January 21, 1835, and a bill was reported on February 12, 1835.
- 1835 A census of the proposed county ordered by the legislature in 1835 and finished on November 30, 1835 counted 3,125 white people, 3,508 enslaved people and 160 free Black people, 6,793 in all. Its take
- 1835 In the session of 1835 and 1836 printed remonstrances opposed "every division of the county, but most earnestly and emphatically" the Battletown division, arguing that the wealth of Frederick lay "in
- 1835 Among the documents printed with the House journal of 1835-36, the commissioner of revolutionary claims reported on his duty "to investigate and adjust the claims against the state of Virginia, for su
1836 — 17 records
- 1836-03-08 Clarke County is formed from Frederick County, with Berryville as its seat
- 1836 Hofstra reads the county's separation as the outcome of a divergence laid down with the earliest settlement of the Valley, writing that it was "not simply an increase in population or just the proximi
- 1836 In January 1836, with a third petition before the legislature, the Virginia Free Press's Richmond correspondent wrote that its fate could not be foreseen, as "the most earnest opposition will again be
- 1836 On March 5, 1836 the House of Delegates took up the bill forming a new county out of Frederick on a tie vote of 49 to 49, with the Speaker voting in favor, and then passed it by 84 votes to 29.
- 1836 The House named the new county Clarke, "in honor of Gen. George R. Clarke," George Rogers Clark; the Virginia Free Press told its readers that "The county including Berryville is to be called Clarke."
- 1836 The Senate passed the bills forming Clarke and Warren counties almost unanimously on Tuesday, March 8, 1836; Fredericksburg's Political Arena wrote that the legislature had "shorn the counties of Fred
- 1836 The act, as the Virginia Free Press printed it on March 24, 1836, made the eastern part of Frederick "one distinct and new county," to "be called and known by the name of Clarke county," and directed
- 1836 The justices of the new county of Clarke first assembled in Berryville on Monday, March 28, 1836; George H. Norris, the oldest in commission, took up the duties of sheriff, John Hay was chosen clerk o
- 1836 Clarke County held its first election on Monday, April 25, 1836; at half past four that afternoon Nathaniel Burwell had 150 votes for the House of Delegates and Col. William Carson 2.
- 1836 The third petition, presented by Mr. Griggs and received December 9, 1835, was found "Reasonable" on January 29, 1836; the same day the committee rejected a remonstrance against the division of Freder
- 1836 On March 12, 1836 the Alexandria Gazette reprinted a Richmond Courier report that the Senate had passed, "by almost unanimous votes," the bill for a new county out of part of Frederick "to be called C
- 1836 The session laws of 1835-36 print the act forming Clarke County as Chapter 19, "Passed March 8, 1836": the eastern part of Frederick "shall form one distinct and new county, and be called and known by
- 1836 The House journal records that when the bill forming a new county out of Frederick was read a third time, "a blank therein was filled," and the bill passed, 84 to 29. It does not say what filled the b
- 1836 Joy MacDonald indexed every free Black person named on Clarke County's personal property tax lists from 1836 to 1862: 704 entries from 26 yearly lists, with 302 names as printed; there is no list for
- 1836 In 1840 Kitty Wilkinson was taxed on 1 horse and a barouche valued at $20, and in 1836 Daniel Wilkerson on a carryall valued at $50 and 1 horse.
- 1836 Mowen Harris is on 21 of the 26 tax lists from 1836 to 1862 under that spelling, and as Mowan in 1848. In 1851 he is 41, a stone mason, taxed on 3 slaves over 16; in 1861 he is taxed on a horse, 2 cat
- 1836 Nine names on Clarke's free Black tax lists were taxed on slaves between 1836 and 1851, among them Thomas Whiting, entered in 1836 with "2 tithables, 4 slaves >12, 1 horse", and Mowen Harris. The Code
1838 — 1 record
- 1838 Some Clarke wills tie freedom to leaving: Ann R. Page's of 1838 has Jack and Billy sent to Liberia; Frederick Clopton's of 1845 frees his slaves and wants them moved to Pennsylvania or another free st
1840 — 10 records
- 1840 Gold's 1914 history says that "About 1840 the old church building was abandoned, a new and handsome brick building was erected in Berryville, and the name changed from 'Buck Marsh,' to 'Berryville',"
- 1840 The Compendium of the Sixth Census, printed in 1841, gives Clarke County 6,353 people, and its twelve slave columns for the county add to 3,325: 1,771 male and 1,554 female. One enslaved woman is coun
- 1840 The Compendium of the Sixth Census gives Clarke County free colored persons in twelve columns that add to 161: 73 male and 88 female.
- 1840 The six largest entries of enslaved people on the 1840 schedule for Clarke County are, as the census writes the heads: Philip Burwill, 90; John E Page Ex, 79; L Lewis, 74; Joseph Tuly, 73; Geo H Burwe
- 1840 On the 1840 schedule for Clarke County, the line of Fairfax Taylor lists 3 free colored persons and 5 slaves, 8 in all, and the line of Jacob Vanmeter 1 free colored person and 1 slave, 2 in all, with
- 1840 On the 1840 census for Clarke County, the households of Sylva Hall and Frank Irwin each list 10 free colored persons and no one else, Thos Gray's 8, John Clifton's and Hannah Robinson's 6 each, John W
- 1840 The tax list of 1840 names James Murray, taxed on 2 horses; Frank Irvin; Silva Hall, with 2 tithables and 2 horses; Hannah Robinson, with 1 horse; John Clifton; John Diggs; Bristo Smith; and John Will
- 1840 The tax list of 1840 counts one free Black person, without a name, on each of the lines of Algernon S Allen, Isaac Irving Hite, John Jolliffe, Richard MS Timberlake and John Wood, and the census of 18
- 1840 Thomas T. Byrd's will of February 16, 1840 frees Gabriel, and gives Ann Preston's children, Thomas Whiting called Tinko and Maria Louisa, to Samuel Wyman Jr. and his wife of Baltimore, to be freed at
- 1840 Other Clarke wills free people by name: Dr. Henry W. Snyder's of 1840 frees a man named James; Catharine Milton's of 1841, John and Robin Lovet; Samuel Bryarly's of 1844, a man named John; Elizabeth C
1841 — 1 record
- 1841 A man entered only as Gabriel, over 16, is on the tax list of 1841, taxed on 1 horse.
1843 — 1 record
- 1843 A few tax-list entries say where a person was: in 1843 a person named only Nanny is entered "at BVille"; in 1851 Nancy Robinson, 65, is entered "with Mrs S R Page"; and in 1850 Washington Newman is on
1848 — 2 records
- 1848 Harriet Evans, "(colored), wife of Randall Evans of Winchester," died November 20, 1848, aged 38.
- 1848 A sketch of a minister in Taylor's Virginia Baptist Ministers, Fourth Series (1913), printed p. 416, says that in 1848 he removed to Berryville, Clarke County, and that "the Berryville Church first li
1849 — 3 records
- 1849 Under the act of January 25, 1806, as the Code of 1849 summarizes it, a slave freed afterward who stayed in Virginia more than twelve months forfeited the freedom and might be sold for the benefit of
- 1849 The Code of 1849 required every commissioner of the revenue to return each year, with his book of personal property, a list of all free negroes in his district over twelve, with their names, sexes, ag
- 1849 The Code of 1849 required every free negro to be registered by the county clerk every five years, with name, age, colour, stature and any mark or scar, and to carry an attested copy; one over twelve f
1850 — 1 record
- 1850 Gwynn Page, son of Dr. Matthew and Mary C. Page of "Longwood," was killed by a horse May 28, 1850, aged 17.
1851 — 1 record
- 1851 The tax lists of 1851, 1860 and 1861 give 103 ages in years and 79 trades. Seventy of the trades are labourer; the others are blacksmith, carpenter and barber (two each), cooper, shoe maker and stone
1852 — 1 record
- 1852 Gold's 1914 history says that Rev. John Monroe, M. D., "succeeded Fristoe," was followed by Rev. Joseph Baker, who "with a short interregnum, remained with the church until 1852," and that Rev. Henry
1853 — 3 records
- 1853 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County death register records that Nancy Edwards, a white girl of 9, daughter of Henry and Mary Ann Edwards, died in the county on December 23, 1853, of "pu
- 1853 Duncan's abstract of the register records that Sarah F. Edwards, a white girl of 6, also a daughter of Henry and Mary Ann Edwards, died in the county on December 30, 1853, of "putria sore throat," as
- 1853 Duncan's abstract of the register records, under the name of Nancy Allen as owner, the death on February 1, 1853, of an enslaved girl of one year and four months, whose name is not given, of typhoid f
1854 — 7 records
- 1854 The Richmond Daily Whig of September 16, 1854 printed an item, credited to the Winchester Virginian, reporting that on the night of Sunday the 3d six men were drowned in the Shenandoah "near Parker's
- 1854 The same item reports that three of the men had been hired by Alfred Castleman from Dr. E. Hoard and Dr. Fisher of Fauquier, and that of the others two belonged respectively to James W. and C. C. Laru
- 1854 The Richmond Daily Dispatch of September 15, 1854 reported that, of six drowned in the Shenandoah on "the 3d inst.", three belonged to James Larue of Clarke County, two to Mrs. Elvira Fisher of Fauqui
- 1854 The same notice says the six "were subsequently recognized", and does not say what that involved.
- 1854 The Whig's "Sunday, the 3d" and the Dispatch's "the 3d inst." in its issue of September 15 together place the drowning on the night of Sunday, September 3, 1854.
- 1854 The Whig's account marks its explanation as a supposition: at the groggery, "it is supposed, they became more or less intoxicated." It does not say who supposed it, and neither account mentions an inq
- 1854 Jennie Carter (colored), nurse for the children of Francis Otway Byrd of "Oakley," was the mother of Nat Carter, "the well-known, faithful and interesting attendant of the Old Chapel grounds for a gre
1856 — 2 records
- 1856 Graham's 1856 life of Daniel Morgan, drawing on the manuscripts of the Rev. William Hill, describes young men of the country between Winchester and the Shenandoah gathering every Saturday afternoon at
- 1856 Writing in 1856, Graham said the place was "called Battletown by everybody in that part of the country, excepting the inhabitants of the village themselves".
1858 — 1 record
- 1858 A sketch in Taylor's Virginia Baptist Ministers, Fifth Series (1915), printed p. 162, says that in 1858, at Berryville, Mr. Shepherd was ordained, the presbytery being "E. Kingsford, H. W. Dcdge [sic]
1859 — 1 record
- 1859 The Clarke County Historical Association's Proceedings (1958), reprinting a 1948 column by Everard Kidder Meade, say the Berryville company was organized in October 1859 as the Clarke Guards, helped g
1861 — 11 records
- 1861 The Richmond Dispatch of November 6, 1861 described prisoners of war as consigned to the care of “Capt. Gibbs, the energetic officer commanding at the military prisons.”
- 1861 A muster-roll card in the compiled service record of Thomas D. Gold, Co. I, 2nd Virginia Infantry, reads "Pvt {Capt. Strother H. Bowen's Company (Clarke Riflemen), 2 Regiment Virginia Infantry.* Age 1
- 1861 A comrade's letter in the Clarke Courier of August 23, 1905, signed "G.", written when two of the company had died "within the last few days," says Jas. H. O'Bannon came to Berryville in 1859 or 1860
- 1861 Isaac Bonham's death notice, which the Clarke Courier reprinted from the Vicksburg Herald in 1883, says he "went out at the age of 16 with the first volunteers," a private in the Clarke Cavalry, 6th V
- 1861 Burwell McGuire, who died near Berryville in January 1912 in the sixty-seventh year of his age, had served in the Clarke Cavalry, "he then being only a youth in his 'teens," the Courier wrote; he had
- 1861 William E. Reed, born in Winchester, spent the greater part of his life in Clarke and became a grain merchant; at his death in April 1924 the Courier wrote that he was "scarcely more than a boy" when
- 1861 A muster-roll card in the compiled service record of William Moore reads "William Moore, Pvt, Co. D, 6 Reg't Virginia Cavalry. Appears on Company Muster Roll of the organization named above, for Nov.
- 1861 A muster-roll card in the compiled service record of Robert O. Allen reads "Robert O. Allen, Pvt, Co. D, 6 Reg't Virginia Cavalry. Appears on Company Muster Roll of the organization named above, for S
- 1861 Samuel Ritter served in Capt. William M. Nelson's Clarke County infantry company and was seriously wounded at the first battle of Manassas, from which he never fully recovered, his 1899 death notice s
- 1861 Thomas Sewell Chamblin, of an old Loudoun County family, enlisted in May 1861 and served in Company H, First Virginia Cavalry, his 1914 death notice says.
- 1861 Thomas S. Chamblin was wounded in the arm on July 21, 1861, was partly crippled for the rest of his life, and served until he was paroled at Winchester on April 29, 1865, his death notice says.
1862 — 9 records
- 1862 The Library of Congress catalog record for The First Minnesota gives its first issue as Vol. 1, no. 1, of March 11, 1862, records that the paper ceased in 1862 and that the March 11 issue also appeare
- 1862 The Library of Congress catalog record for the Berryville Conservator notes that its title "may have been coined by the occupying Union troops," and that it was issued with the First Minnesota of Marc
- 1862 The Richmond Dispatch of January 13, 1862 reported that Captain Gibbs, who had had charge of the prison depots in Richmond, had been promoted to Major in the Provisional Army and was going to Salisbur
- 1862 A 1980 master’s thesis on the Richmond prisons states that early in March 1862 prisoners were moved from the tobacco warehouses of Rocketts into the four-storey building owned by Libby and Sons, and t
- 1862 A second muster-roll card reads "Thomas D. Gold, 6[th?] Sgt, Co. I, 2 Reg't Virginia Infantry. Appears on Company Muster Roll of the organization named above, for Apr 30 to Oct 31, 1862," gives his en
- 1862 A typed abstract card reads "Thos. Gold , Co. I , 2 Reg't., Va. Inf." as appearing on "a REPORT of operations and casualties, of the 2d Reg't. Va. Inf., in the battles of Manassas, Va., Aug. 27 to 30,
- 1862 Meade's column says that on picket near Port Republic on Sunday morning, June 8, 1862, the company's Capt. S. J. C. Moore, warned by Henry Kerfoot of the Clarke Cavalry that Union cavalry was coming,
- 1862 Thomas Wyndham, who joined the Clarke Cavalry in 1862 though only fifteen when the war began, was twice captured and once held five months at Fort Delaware, his 1921 notice says.
- 1862 A muster-roll card in the compiled service record of Edmond Pendleton reads "Edmond Pendleton, 1[st?] Sergt, Co. C, 17 Batt’n Virginia Cavalry. Appears on Company Muster Roll of the organization named
1863 — 5 records
- 1863 Gold's 1914 history of Clarke County, in the roll printed on p. 240, lists: "R. O. Allen, 2nd Lieut., permanently disabled by a wound received at the Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863."
- 1863 A hospital-register card in the compiled service record of Thomas D. Gold, Co. I, 2nd Virginia Infantry, reads "Thomas D. Gold Sgt. Co. I. 2d Regt. Va. Cav. [sic] Capt. O'Bannon" as appearing on "a Re
- 1863 A claim in the same record certifies that "the horse of William Moore Sgt Co (D) 6th Va Cavy was shot in the action of June 9th 1863 near Brandy Station" and was appraised at $375, and carries a recei
- 1863 Gold’s 1914 history of Clarke County, in its account of the fighting on the road from Beverly’s Ford by St. James church to Brandy Station (printed pp. 267-269), says that Lieut. R. O. Allen of the Cl
- 1863 Gold’s account of Brandy Station (printed p. 269) says that "One of the men in the woods with Lieutenant Allen was Nicholas Moore, of the Clarke Cavalry, who received a very severe wound from a pistol
1864 — 15 records
- 1864 Mary F. Lewis's petition, as the Court of Claims summarized it, said she lived near Boyce and that United States forces under Gen. P. H. Sheridan took quartermaster stores and commissary supplies from
- 1864 Her claim listed a saddle and harness horse, a work horse, fourteen hogs, fifteen sheep, 755 bushels of corn in two entries, fifty bushels of wheat, eighty-five turkeys, seventy-five chickens and othe
- 1864 The essay identifies the claimant as Mary Frances (Bell) Lewis of Locust Grove, and the losses it lists match the court's summary of Mary F. Lewis's claim: two horses, 755 bushels of corn, 50 of wheat
- 1864 Gold's 1914 history of Clarke County, in the roll printed on p. 246, lists: "Topper, Pius Francis, wounded in action June 9, 1863, at Brandy Station; killed in action Sept., 1864, near Luray, Va."
- 1864 It says "During the second battle of Manassas he was desperately wounded, and was for a long time unable to perform military duties," and that he stayed with the company until May, 1864, "when he was
- 1864 His notice tells how in 1864 Mrs. Van Meter found Bedell, a Union soldier who had lost a leg after a skirmish on the Opequon, near death in a house near their farm, where a Black man was caring for hi
- 1864 As a reward, the notice says, the general had the War Department release Van Meter from prison, and the Van Meters and the Bedells visited each other for years afterward.
- 1864 John C. Rutherford, color-bearer of Co. F, 52nd Virginia, was captured at Cold Harbor and held at Elmira, New York, until the war ended; his 1923 tribute retells his stories of bunking with a smallpox
- 1864 A. J. Berlin of White Post, of the Nelson Rifles, was taken prisoner at the Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania and held at Elmira, a comrade wrote in 1907, and endured it "in the same quiet, uncomplaining w
- 1864 Charles T. Jones of the Long Marsh district, who died in February 1894 "aged nearly 48 years," had entered the Confederate army in 1864 "when a lad of but 17 years" and was soon wounded; he later sat
- 1864 W. W. Bowles, born near Winchester, joined the Confederate army "during the last year of the civil war" as "a lad of sixteen" and served under Capt. Jack Adams; he later moved to Clarke and died at hi
- 1864 An inspection-report card in the same record carries "Ed. Pendelton [sic], Lieut Co. C 11 Regt Va Cavly" among the absent commissioned officers of Rosser’s Brigade in a report dated at Forestville in
- 1864 A muster-roll card in the same record for Sept and Oct 1864 reads "R. O. Allen, 2 Lieut, Co. D, 6 Reg't Virginia Cavalry" and carries him absent: "Absent sick wounded in action June 9, 1863 Brandy Sta
- 1864 A register card of the Invalid Corps, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, in the same record reads "R. O. Allen, 2 Lt Co D. 6 Regt Cavy Va." and gives his retirement on Nov 15, 1864, at Richmo
- 1864 In the same compiled service record, a requisition for forage for one horse for January 1864, at Harrisonburg, is made out "in the service of Lewis Ashby, Company D, 6th Regiment" of Virginia Cavalry,
1865 — 15 records
- 1865 John W. Munson’s 1906 memoir reproduces a letter from Brevet Brigadier-General C. H. Morgan, chief of staff to Major-General Winfield S. Hancock, to Colonel John S. Mosby, dated April 11, 1865, statin
- 1865 The same memoir reproduces part of a dispatch from Hancock to Major-General Henry Halleck dated April 12, 1865, predicting "it is quite as likely that Mosby will disband as that he will surrender, as
- 1865 Munson reproduces part of Mosby’s reply to Hancock, dated April 15, 1865: that he had "no notice through any other source of the fact concerning the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia," that i
- 1865 Williamson’s 1909 history reproduces, in a footnote, a telegram from Hancock to Halleck dated April 16, 1865: "Arrangements have been made for a meeting at Millwood on Tuesday noon, when I expect to r
- 1865 Munson writes that on April 18, Mosby met a number of his Rangers at Paris, in Fauquier County, and rode with them to Millwood, where he met, by appointment, "General George H. Chapman and his officer
- 1865 Williamson’s 1909 history reproduces, in a footnote, General George H. Chapman’s own report of the first Millwood meeting, filed the same day, April 18, 1865: Mosby "declined to surrender at this time
- 1865 Williamson’s 1909 history reproduces internal instructions from Headquarters Middle Military Division to Brevet Major-General Torbert, dated April 16, 1865, confirming independently of the Hancock-to-
- 1865 Williamson’s 1909 history reproduces a telegram from W. G. Mitchell to Major-General Augur, dated Winchester, April 20, 1865, reporting that Mosby, met in person at Millwood that day, "stated, and it
- 1865 Gold's 1914 history of Clarke County, in the roll printed on p. 241, lists: "Moore, William; Sergeant, promoted to lieutenancy in the Company, died of wounds received in action at Five Forks, Va., Apr
- 1865 It says "He was confined at Point Lookout prison about three months, from which place he was transferred[.] to the military prison at Elmira, N. Y., where he remained until he was exchanged in the spr
- 1865 A parole card reads "Thos D. Gould, [+ mark above the surname] Sgt, Co. I. 2d Regt. Va," as a signature to "a Parole of Prisoners of War sent from Elmira, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1865, to James River for Exch
- 1865 An oath of parole reads "HEAD QUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, OFFICE PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL. WINCHESTER VA. April 21st 1865. I T. D. Gold. of Co. I. 2d Va Inf C. S. Army, do hereby give this my pa
- 1865 The 1920 tribute says Shipe and Abner Jones "were the only ones of Co. I" at Lee's surrender; Meade's 1948 column says "Four survivors surrendered at Appomattox."
- 1865 Released after twelve months, the tribute says, Rutherford made his way home; near Staunton a boatman wanted pay to carry him across a swollen river, so he waded and swam across and walked thirteen mi
- 1865 A parole card filed in the same record reads "W. J. Moore, Pvt Co. K, 6 Regt Va. Cav." and gives his parole on April 20, 1865, at Millwood, Va. The card’s initials and company differ from William Moor
1866 — 4 records
- 1866 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Philip J. Afflick, 29, widowed, a blacksmith born in Frederick County, Virginia, and living in Berryville, married Mar
- 1866 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Walter T. Bennett, 27, single, a clerk born in the city of New York and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Han
- 1866 The 1906 book on the Old Chapel says that, after "the removal of the congregation to Christ Church, Millwood," the history of the "Old Chapel" is "little more than a record of those who, from time to
- 1866 The same obituary says "He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Frank G. Walter (formerly Miss Lucy Neville Gold), of Chicago, Ill., and Miss Mary Washington Gold, who lives at home, and one son," and t
1867 — 4 records
- 1867-11 Josephine sells a shirt to her former enslavers
- 1867 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Roger P. Annan, 22, single, a merchant born in Cumberland, Maryland, and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Ad
- 1867 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that William B. Atkins, 21, single, a shoemaker born in Rappahannock County, Virginia, and living in Clarke County, Virgini
- 1867 Dilmon Estep, captured at Spotsylvania Court House and held to the end of the war, worked as a carpenter around the prison at Fort Delaware; in 1867 he came to Clarke, where he built barns and houses
1868 — 2 records
- 1868 The 2000 Millwood Colored School nomination quotes a Freedmen's Bureau report of 30 April 1868 in which the agent Ripley wrote that schools in the district were still open, the only change being one i
- 1868 The 2000 Millwood Colored School nomination quotes the 1868 report as saying: "Mr. Keys has been relieved by Mrs. Sarah S. Jackson (col'd) who is a very good teacher & will build up a good school."
1869 — 11 records
- 1869 The 2000 Millwood Colored School nomination says the school building of about 1910 was put up adjacent to and in front of an earlier Reconstruction-era school which was demolished in the 1930s, and th
- 1869 The Clarke Courier of October 6, 1869 reported, under the heading "HOMICIDE", that about 11 o'clock on the previous Wednesday night Alec Cary was killed on the turnpike between Millwood and Berryville
- 1869 The same item reports that four people were walking together, Cary and Blakely in company with another man and a girl, and it names only Cary and Blakely.
- 1869 The item summarises what it says was elicited at the inquest: an altercation between the two became a scuffle in which Cary got somewhat the better of Blakely, whereupon Blakely drew a knife, cut Cary
- 1869 The item states that Blakely escaped, and it records no arrest, charge, trial or outcome.
- 1869 The item attributes the quarrel to the girl as something thought rather than established, saying the difficulty "is thought to have been connected with the girl", without saying who thought so.
- 1869 The issue carrying the item is dated Wednesday October 6, 1869, so its phrase "last Wednesday night" places the killing on the night of September 29, 1869.
- 1869 The Clarke Courier of October 27, 1869 reported that the circuit court had adjourned on Saturday the 23d after a session of two weeks, and that its grand jury had found a true bill against Pinkey for
- 1869 The same issue reported that Constable Fryer had gone a few days earlier to Madison county, Pinkey's former residence, to arrest him on a report that he was there; that the report proved false; and th
- 1869 The Courier printed the dead man's given name three ways: "Alec" in its report of October 6, 1869, "Elliott" in its court report of October 27, and "Alec, (or Elliott)" in the NO ARREST item of the sa
- 1869 The 2000 nomination says that in July 1869 The Clarke Courier reported, under the banner "Millwood Is In Possession Of A Sensation," that John Holmes, "a colored veteran who had lost a leg in the war,
1870 — 3 records
- 1870 Twenty-four formerly enslaved people buy the 31 acres that become Josephine City
- 1870-09 Josephine buys Lots 1 and 2 on the plat
- 1870 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 Joseph
1871 — 4 records
- 1871-05 Josephine and Phillip Williams are party to a Lot 1 sale
- 1871 The Clarke Courier itself printed, twice in 1871, that Captain George W. Alexander had commanded at Castle Thunder in Richmond during the war.
- 1871 Randal Evans (Colored) lived in Winchester, where he conducted "a high-class restaurant," and died in Baltimore in 1871.
- 1871 Drawing on the Virginia School Reports for 1871, 1873, 1874 and 1888, the nomination says that only four years after the public school system was established Clarke County supported eighteen schools f
1872 — 1 record
- 1872 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Benjamin F. Alexander, 22, single, a farmer born and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Eliza Willingham on Oc
1873 — 12 records
- 1873 The Clarke Courier of July 10, 1873 reported that part of the Little family was at breakfast at their father's house in Clarke County when two of the six brothers entered the dining room, locked the d
- 1873 The same report said the brothers' mother was wounded in the thigh by a pistol ball, and described the shooting of her as unintentional, she having tried to shield Clinton.
- 1873 The report said Columbus and Gilbert Little took the pistols from Oscar and Lycurgus, who ran toward the barn, and that Gilbert seized a rifle and hit Oscar in the leg, after which both surrendered.
- 1873 The Courier said little was known of the causes because the family at the coroner's inquest was careful to divulge only that which was the immediate cause of his death.
- 1873 The Courier reported that Oscar and Lycurgus Little were confined in the county jail, awaiting trial.
- 1873 The Richmond Enquirer, reprinted by the Courier on July 24, 1873, described Berryville as brought into prominence at this time from being the place of confinement of the Little brothers, charged with
- 1873 The Courier of October 30, 1873 reported that Lycurgus Little was convicted at Berryville, before Judge Robert H. Turner, of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to fourteen years in the peniten
- 1873 The Courier of December 4, 1873 reported that Oscar Little, tried at Winchester after the case was removed from Clarke County, was convicted and given seven years.
- 1873 The sources disagree about when and where the killing happened: one account places it on July 5 and another on July 6, 1873, and the house is put about seven miles from Winchester in one report and at
- 1873 A Baltimore Sun special from Winchester, reprinted in the Alexandria Daily State Journal of July 7, 1873, reported that Oscar Little told Clinton they had nothing against him and did not want him to i
- 1873 The nomination says that in 1873 The Clarke Courier announced the year's teaching appointments, including that of "Nancy Jones, col'd," who would be the Chapel District teacher at the Millwood School.
- 1873 The nomination quotes The Clarke Courier's own comment on the 1873 list in these words: "It will be seen that there are three colored teachers on the list, whose duties are confined to the instruction
1874 — 5 records
- 1874 The National Register nomination for the Josephine City Historic District begins the district's period of significance in 1874, the date of its oldest resource: the marked burial of Mary Slowe in Milt
- 1874 The Josephine City Historic District nomination cites Clarke County Deed Book P, pages 152 to 154, of 1874, for the three-acre purchase of Milton Valley Cemetery, as this project's notes record the ci
- 1874 The Courier of November 12, 1874 reported that the Court of Appeals had reversed the decision below in the case of the Commonwealth against Lycurgus Little.
- 1874 The Court of Appeals opinion in Little v. Commonwealth gives the court's own grounds for the November 1874 reversal: the trial court had excluded a statement Lycurgus Little made to a witness moments
- 1874 The Josephine City Historic District nomination says the cemetery's three acres were bought in 1874 by the president and officers, or trustees, of the Milton Valley Cemetery from A. Moore, Jr., guardi
1875 — 3 records
- 1875 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Robert E. Allder, 21, single, a farmer born in Loudoun County, Virginia, and living in Clarke County, Virginia, marrie
- 1875 The Courier of April 8, 1875 reported that Gilbert Little, called by the prosecution at the second trial, testified that the killing was accidental, and that, having told the coroner's inquest otherwi
- 1875 The Courier of April 15, 1875 reported that the second jury again found murder in the second degree and fixed the term at five years.
1876 — 1 record
- 1876 The Courier of April 6, 1876 reported, under the heading Pardons Refused, that Governor Kemper declined to pardon Lycurgus and Oscar Little after referring the application to Judge Turner, who decline
1877 — 3 records
- 1877 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that James Barber, 21, single, a farm hand born and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Barbara A. Edmonds on Decemb
- 1877 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Julius Karr Bartlett, 36, single, a farmer born in Missouri and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Bettie L. B
- 1877 A notice in the Clarke Courier of September 13, 1877 called the stockholders of the Winchester and Berry's Ferry Turnpike Road to meet at "John Sprint's Hotel, in Millwood," at 12 o'clock on Monday, O
1878 — 2 records
- 1878 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Elijah Addison, 33, single, a farm hand born in Jefferson County, West Virginia, and living in Clarke County, Virginia
- 1878 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Cyrus D. Baughman, 24, single, a miller born in Pennsylvania and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Mary E. Yo
1879 — 3 records
- 1879 The railroad reaches Berryville
- 1879 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that William Baxter, 35, single, a farmer born in Maryland and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Sarah E. Alexande
- 1879 The same Courier notice says that forty-one Black men and women formed the Milton Valley Cemetery Company in 1879, bought three acres "from Mr. Engle," and laid out there "the first burial ground for
1881 — 10 records
- 1881 Winston Hall built, by the Legion's account
- 1881 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Frederick Adams, 26, single, a farm hand born and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Emma Walker on January 6,
- 1881 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that John Banks, 22, single, a farm hand born and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Maria Marston on February 3, 1
- 1881 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Thomas Bayles, 23, single, a farmer born and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Elizabeth Littleton on Februar
- 1881 The Clarke Courier of 2 June 1881 reported that workmen digging the foundation for the Bank of Clarke County's building came upon the bones of some four or five human bodies, within two or three feet
- 1881 The same item reported that no one then living in the town possessed any knowledge of the spot having been used as a burying ground.
- 1881 The same item reported that nails were found with the bones, took this as showing the bodies had been coffined before burial, and on that basis rejected an attribution of the remains to Indigenous bur
- 1881 The same item stated it was probable the remains were those of soldiers of the Revolution, giving as its reason that no one knew when they were placed there.
- 1881 The Clarke Courier tracked the bank building through 1881: in February the directors decided to erect it and appointed a committee, in March work awaited brick, by September it was under roof, and by
- 1881 Hudson dates the discovery to "Monday, May 24, 1881". May 24, 1881 fell on a Tuesday, and the Courier's "on Monday" in its issue of Thursday 2 June points instead to 30 May 1881.
1882 — 5 records
- 1882 The Josephine City School is built with local labor and money
- 1882 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that James W. Bennett, 22, single, a farmer born and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Ella E. Pope on April 27, 1
- 1882 The 1995 National Register nomination for the Josephine City School says the school was built around 1882, was used as an elementary school until 1930, and was then moved a short distance from its ori
- 1882 An advertisement in the Clarke Courier of September 14, 1882, signed "J. W. SPRINT & SON, BOYCE, VA.," offered phosphates "tested by farmers in our immediate vicinity" and said the firm expected to ma
- 1882 Evelyn Williams (Colored), "Mammy Evelyn," is remembered in the record as "the faithful servant and devoted nurse of all the children at ‘The Briars’"; she died November 12, 1882, aged 83.
1883 — 4 records
- 1883 A correspondent signing himself "Tramp", in a letter reprinted by the Clarke Courier on 22 March 1883, wrote that in colonial times the men of the neighborhood met at a spring near the town on Saturda
- 1883 The same 1883 letter names Daniel Morgan in its account of the spring, saying that in these fisticuffs he "was particularly prominent, and was always victorious", and that the fighting there toughened
- 1883 Charles Jackson (Colored), butler for Dr. Robert C. Randolph at "New Market," is called "one of the old faithful servants" in the record; he died in April 1883.
- 1883 Bonham, a native of Berryville, was shot in Vicksburg in August 1883 in an affray between two other men and died the next morning, in the 37th year of his age; the Herald wrote that he had been "inter
1884 — 4 records
- 1884 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Welby H. Baldwin, 23, single, a farmer born in Loudoun County, Virginia, and living in Clarke County, Virginia, marrie
- 1884 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that William Banks, 22, single, a farm hand born and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Betsey Hubbard on August 28
- 1884 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Milton A. Baughman, 27, single, a miller born in York County, Pennsylvania, and living in Clarke County, Virginia, mar
- 1884 The Clarke Courier of September 4, 1884 reported that the survivors of Co. D, the Clarke Cavalry, met under the trees in front of Lieut. R. O. Allen's house and formed the "Association of the survivor
1885 — 5 records
- 1885 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Edward Allen, 32, single, a farm hand born in Amherst County, Virginia, and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married
- 1885 The 2003 Boyce Historic District nomination says the Boyce Colored School was constructed in 1885, reflecting the growing African-American population in the immediate area, and records it at 35 South
- 1885 In June 1885 a committee of the survivors, with A. Moore, Jr. as chairman, appealed in the Courier for help to build a monument to the Clarke men "who were slain in battle, or died from wounds receive
- 1885 A guest at the 1885 reunion wrote to the Courier that it was "possibly just a little grating" to the old infantrymen to be "left out in the cold" while the cavalry raised the monument, but that the ca
- 1885 In June 1885 the survivors brought home the remains of F. P. Topper, "a Pennsylvanian" of the company who had fallen near Luray in 1864; the Clarke Rifles escorted them to Grace Episcopal Church to li
1886 — 10 records
- 1886 Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Silas F. Baughman, 38, widowed, a merchant born in York County, Pennsylvania, and living in Clarke County, Virginia, m
- 1886 The Clarke Courier of March 25, 1886 printed an item headed “An Old Acquaintance” describing an old grey-haired man sitting in “one of our hotels” when a stranger came off a train, stopped, and said h
- 1886 In the Courier’s telling the old man answered that he knew the stranger “like a book,” that the stranger had boarded with him, had left without paying his board and left in the night, and had left his
- 1886 The old man is given as answering: “I am, sir, Captain Jack Warner, and you are Quartermaster Murphy, and you escaped from the prison at Libby while I was commissary of that institution,” and the stra
- 1886 The Courier explained that Murphy belonged to a New York regiment and was captured and sent to Libby, and that prisoners who were practitioners of medicine were allowed to attend the sick in the priso
- 1886 The item says a green sentry would not let the doctors pass and was sharply reprimanded by Captain Gibbs, who told him that men wearing red ribbons on their coat lapel should pass unmolested, and that
- 1886 The item closes: “The meeting described herein is the first since those days when, as captor and captive, they dwelt within the walls of the famous southern prison.”
- 1886 On the page as printed, the item carries no credit line and is followed immediately by an unrelated anecdote, “A Sensible Dog,” set on a New Mexico ranch.
- 1886 Patricia B. Duncan's published abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Thomas H. Sprint, 29, a merchant, the son of John W. and Emily Sprint, married Mamie Humston, 23, the daught
- 1886 In March 1886 the Courier reported that the Legislature had passed bills to incorporate the association and to let the county's Board of Supervisors give it ground in the court-yard square for a monum
1887 — 3 records
- 1887 Dr. Alfred Tucker rents the Hawthorne building for his office and a small hospital
- 1887 In April 1919 the Courier reported that a memorial tablet to Maj. Lloyd W. Williams, given by his family, would be placed in Grace Episcopal Church, and printed its inscription: born June 5, 1887 at N
- 1887 Duncan's abstract of the register records that Silas William Ball, a Black laborer of 22 ("colored male" in the register), son of James and Agnes, born in Clarke County, died in the Chapel District on
1888 — 6 records
- 1888 In the summer of 1888 Representative O'Ferrall presented to the House a petition of Mary F. Lewis, of Clarke County, Virginia, asking that her claim be referred to the Court of Claims; it went to the
- 1888 The House Committee on War Claims sent Mary F. Lewis's claim to the Court of Claims on July 10, 1888, under the act of March 3, 1883.
- 1888 The Mary F. Lewis of Clarke County in the 1899 act and the claimant in Court of Claims Congressional Case No. 5328 are very probably the same person and claim: the name, county and the exact $1,002 ma
- 1888 Barry H. Lewis’s 2026 family essay says Mary Frances filed a petition on September 20, 1888, that compensation of $1,925.00 was paid, and that she used the money to build an addition to the log part o
- 1888 The nomination says that in April 1888 Beverly Randolph and Mary, his wife, conveyed a 1.25-acre school lot to the Chapel District School Board for $162.50, and that Mary had received the property thr
- 1888 At the reunion of August 22, 1888, A. Moore, Jr. read his own narrative of the company's charge at Trevilian Station, which the Courier printed.
1890 — 1 record
- 1890 On November 24, 1890, the Court of Claims found that Mary F. Lewis "was loyal to the Government of the United States throughout said war."
1891 — 2 records
- 1891 On December 7, 1891, the Court of Claims found that stores and supplies had been taken from the claimant's farm in Clarke County in 1864 for the use of the Army, and that their reasonable value was $1
- 1891 A guest who had been to three reunions wrote in 1891 that "Time has left its impress upon many of these old soldiers" and that they would "one by one drop from the ranks," but that once a year the har
1894 — 2 records
- 1894 Jacob Brooks (Colored) drove the carriage for Dr. Robert C. Randolph of "New Market" and later for Mrs. George H. Burwell at "Saratoga," where he died in November 1894.
- 1894 Duncan's abstract of the register records that Robert Elwell, a white boy of two months, son of William and Martha Elwell, died in the Battletown District on July 1, 1894, of cholera infantum; his fat
1896 — 2 records
- 1896 Betsey Brooks (Colored) was "mammy to the children at ‘Saratoga’ for three generations"; she died at "Saratoga" in 1896, aged 90.
- 1896 At the reunion of 1896, the Courier reported, "Thirty-two survivors of the gallant old company" attended, with ex-Confederates of other commands.
1897 — 3 records
- 1897 In a card of thanks in the Clarke Courier of May 19, 1897, B. R. Blackburn thanked "the many friends, white and colored," who had helped during the illness of a daughter, Ellen C. Blackburn, who died
- 1897 Funeral notices in the Clarke Courier from 1897 to 1948 that mention Milton Valley Cemetery commonly name the church and the minister in charge, the Rev. E. T. Johnson among them repeatedly, and sever
- 1897 Gold's 1914 history of Clarke County opens its chapter VIII, headed "Old Chapel and Millwood," by saying that very early in the history of Frederick County provision was made for the building of chape
1899 — 5 records
- 1899 G. L. D. Harris is named as editor and proprietor of the People's Journal of Berryville in its masthead in 1899 and is still named as its editor in 1927.
- 1899 The People's Journal of March 1, 1899 recorded the death of Mrs. Lizzie Carter, whose residence was on Lincoln Ave.
- 1899 The act of March 3, 1899, chapter 426, directed the Secretary of the Treasury to pay "Mary F. Lewis, of Clarke County, one thousand and two dollars," in full and final release of her claim.
- 1899 Samuel Ritter, called one of the oldest citizens of Frederick County, died in September 1899 at 84, the Clarke Courier reported.
- 1899 Thomas H. Shearer, one of the best known business men of Millwood, kept a general merchandise store there and slept in it, and died of typhoid fever in June 1899, about fifty years of age and unmarrie
1900 — 3 records
- 1900 Clara Harris (Colored) was "mammy to the ‘New Market’ children"; she died in 1900, aged 86.
- 1900 The monument to the Confederate dead of Clarke County was unveiled on Saturday, July 21, 1900, the Courier reported.
- 1900 John O. Crown, editor of the Clarke Courier, had been a prisoner at Point Lookout, and after his death his pamphlet "A Chapter of Prison Life in a Northern Prison," dedicated to the J. E. B. Stuart Ca
1901 — 1 record
- 1901 John P. Yowell died at his home a mile south of Boyce in July 1901, aged 65.
1902 — 2 records
- 1902 In a will dated April 30, 1902, B. F. Humston gave "my daughter Mamie R. Sprint" the farm in Clarke County "known as the Bellview farm," which the will says was conveyed to him by Marshall McCormick,
- 1902 Thomas J. Russell, a farmer, died at his home three miles west of Berryville in May 1902, aged 62.
1903 — 2 records
- 1903 The Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project's Roots Run Deep tour says White Post had a second African American school, just south of Mount Olive Baptist Church, which was built about 1903 as a schoo
- 1903 At the twentieth reunion, in 1903, the members stood bareheaded while "the roll of the honored dead was called."
1904 — 2 records
- 1904 The Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Clarke County recorded on October 17, 1904 that the last will and testament of B. F. Humston, deceased, was produced and admitted to record.
- 1904 The inventory and appraisement of B. F. Humston's personal estate, dated October 31, 1904, lists under "Bellview Place" 534 bushels of wheat at $1.12, $598.08; hay, $58.50; 16 bushels of clover seed a
1905 — 3 records
- 1905 Upton Boyce's orchards at Tuleyries reach eighty-three acres
- 1905 The letter, dated August 21, 1905 and signed "G.", ends: "To us, 'Kate' Shepherd and 'Jim' O'Bannon can never die while memory lasts."
- 1905 In August 1905 only sixteen of the survivors were present, and six members had died since the reunion of the year before, the Courier reported.
1909 — 9 records
- 1909-11-03 A depot promised, not yet started
- 1909 On the June 1909 Sanborn plate 2, Main Street map number 347 was labeled `Hardw` (2 stories, yellow/frame) with `Tin Shop` (1 story, green/specials); on the March 1921 plate 2, W. Main Street map numb
- 1909 On the June 1909 Sanborn plate 2, Main Street map number 346 was labeled `Hardw` and `Gro.` (2 stories, yellow/frame); on the March 1921 plate 2, W. Main Street map number 346 was labeled `Auto Displa
- 1909 On the June 1909 Sanborn plate 2, Main Street map number 344 was labeled `Clo.` (2 stories, yellow/frame); on the March 1921 plate 2, W. Main Street map number 344 was labeled `Clo. & Jewl'y` and `Pho
- 1909 On the June 1909 Sanborn plate 2, Main Street map number 343 was labeled `D.` and `Off.` (2 stories; red/brick and yellow/frame components); on the March 1921 plate 2, W. Main Street map number 343 wa
- 1909 Both inspected Sanborn plate 2s label Main Street map number 342 `Drugs`: June 1909 records it as 2 stories and red/brick, and March 1921 records it as 2 stories and red/brick.
- 1909 The 2000 Millwood Colored School nomination quotes the Greenway Magisterial District School Board minutes of 1909, in which Graham Blandy offered $1,500 for the construction of a new Negro School Buil
- 1909 The Clarke Courier of June 30, 1909 announced that Black residents of the section would hold "a big gathering" on Thursday, July 8, to unveil a monument costing about $200 "to the memory of the origin
- 1909 The nomination says the marble obelisk at the center of the cemetery was dedicated in 1909 and contains the names of all 41 original stockholders, with the inscription "In memory of the original stock
1910 — 20 records
- 1910 The passenger depot is built
- 1910-01-05 The board approves the depot
- 1910-03-02 Work starts on the passenger depot
- 1910-08-10 The agent expects to move in
- 1910 The People's Journal reported that George Cooper was killed by a freight train while attempting to jump off at the Josephine City crossing, and was buried in Milton Valley Cemetery; the report's own d
- 1910 The People's Journal's standing church directory lists an A.M.E. Church with Rev. Geo. Lee as pastor in June 1910, when the entry reads A.M.E. Church, Berryville; with Rev. A. J. Nixon in January 1912
- 1910 The People's Journal's standing church directory lists the "Gallean Fishermen" (the Galilean Fishermen) as meeting on the first and third Thursday of each month, in June 1910 and again in January 1912
- 1910 The People's Journal of June 1, 1910, in its obituary of Mrs. Sarah E. Mills, reported that she was a member of the "Gallean Fishermen Society" (the Galilean Fishermen), which "turned out in full Rega
- 1910 The People's Journal of June 1, 1910 printed a resolution of respect on the death of Sarah E. Mills by order of "Gideon's Tab. No. 14," signed by Cora B. Jones as ex-Scribe.
- 1910 The People's Journal of June 1, 1910 printed a resolution on the death of Sarah E. Mills from "Rose of Sharn" (Rose of Sharon) Juvenile Tab. No. 61 of Berryville, signed by Phillip Page as R. W R. and
- 1910 The People's Journal of June 1, 1910 carried an advertisement for the Milton Valley Cemetery Company saying the company had erected a monument "in honor to the Stockholders and their beloved dead," wi
- 1910 The People's Journal of June 1, 1910 carried a signed advertisement for Mrs. Mary L. Harris, dressmaking, Berryville: "I want to cut, fit and make all suits in the latest style; and guarantee satisfac
- 1910 The People's Journal of June 1, 1910 named Mrs. L. E. Carr's First-Class Restaurant on Church Street, with meals at all hours.
- 1910 The People's Journal of June 1, 1910 carried an item for Mr. Ben Jefferson's "New Store!", saying he was "back at his old stand, the Brandy place".
- 1910 The People's Journal of June 1, 1910 reported that Miss Fanny Massy had built a small shoe-shop and a dwelling house on her Academy lot, and that both were rented out.
- 1910 The 2000 National Register nomination for the Millwood Colored School describes it as a relatively unaltered frame schoolhouse constructed around 1910 to serve the local African-American community, an
- 1910 The Milton Valley Cemetery advertisement in the People's Journal of June 1, 1910 offered sites for burials "at reasonable terms," said the company had erected "a beautiful" monument "in honor to the S
- 1910 The People's Journal of June 1, 1910 printed among its personals: "The Milton Valley Cemetery ought to have their flower strewing when flowers are plentiful."
- 1910 The same issue printed resolutions on the death of Sarah E. Mills by order of "Gideon's Tab. No. 14," which remembered her as "a member of the sick committee," and of "Rose of Sharn" (Rose of Sharon)
- 1910 The People's Journal of June 1, 1910 reported the death of Mrs. Sarah E. Mills, about 63, with a funeral at the Free Baptist Church, Rev. B. F. Thomas officiating; it said she was a member of the "Gal
1911 — 1 record
- 1911 The People's Journal of January 1, 1912 reported that the Independent Club, of Millwood and Berryville, held a social in the Fishermen's Hall on December 28, 1911, and called it one of the most enjoya
1912 — 1 record
- 1912 The People's Journal of January 1, 1912 carried a dressmaking advertisement for Mrs. L. Harris: "Special attention given to children."
1913 — 4 records
- 1913 The People's Journal reported a marriage at a building it called the Old School Church in Josephine City on 26 April 1913.
- 1913 The People's Journal of May 1, 1913 reported A.M.E. conference appointments that sent Rev. A. J. Nixon, who had held Berryville together with Howardsville, Va. and Duffields, W.Va., to Boone Mill, and
- 1913 The People's Journal of May 1, 1913 printed an obituary of Mrs. Malinda Burns recording that she had joined Galilean Fishermen Tabernacle No. 14 in 1896.
- 1913 The People's Journal of May 1, 1913 printed the program for the dedication of Zion Baptist Church's new chapel and its May Fair, which included a Missionary Society devotional, "How Shall Africa be sa
1914 — 4 records
- 1914 The Battletown name is traced to tavern fighting
- 1914 The People's Journal's church directory of February 1, 1914 lists the Primitive Baptist congregation in Josephine City on the fourth Sunday, with Brother Robert Williams.
- 1914 An unnumbered plate between printed pp. 268 and 269 of Gold’s 1914 history of Clarke County is a full-length photograph captioned "R. O. ALLEN LIEUTENANT, 'CLARKE CAVALRY' (COMPANY D, SIXTH VIRGINIA C
- 1914 Thomas S. Chamblin was for many years president of the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society of Winchester, and died on April 28, 1914, at his home, "The Highlands," near White Post, in his seventy-f
1915 — 2 records
- 1915 The Winchester Evening Star of December 6, 1915 prints on page 1, in a Special to The Star dated Berryville, Dec. 6 and headed "THOMAS D. GOLD PASSES AWAY AT HOME IN CLARKE," that "Hon. Thomas Daniel
- 1915 It says "The funeral of Mr. Gold took place this afternoon from the Baptist Church ,and the services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Julian Broaddus. Burial was in Green Hill Cemetery."
1917 — 4 records
- 1917 The Clarke Courier of October 10, 1917 reported that John W. Sprint, "one of the highly esteemed citizens of Boyce," had died at his home there; that he was born in Winchester on June 26, 1829 and mov
- 1917 The Clarke Courier of April 25, 1917 reported that Helan Fields, an old and well-known Black woman who had lived nearly all her life in the community, had died at the home of her son, Dr. William H. F
- 1917 The Virginia War History Commission's 1927 history of Clarke County says "Mr. J. W. Lloyd had five sons in service": Charles, Grover, Linton, Thomas and Howard. The Courier wrote in January 1919 that
- 1917 The Clarke Courier of July 4, 1917, under the headline "Local Boy Now in France," printed a photograph of Capt. Lloyd W. Williams from the Marine Corps Publicity Bureau and reported that Captain Lloyd
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- 1918 A Clarke Courier editorial of November 5, 1942, headed "Armistice Day," recalled that on November 11, 1918 the county "rang its church bells, blew its whistles and celebrated generally the ending of t
- 1918 The Clarke Courier of June 27, 1918 reported that the ladies of the Berryville Baptist Church presented it with a service flag of eight stars, for Collins Dakeman, Harry Simonds, Robert Mesmer, Walter
- 1918 The Methodist church at Berryville kept Sunday, June 30, 1918 as Soldiers' Day, "In honor of our own 13 soldier boys especially," the Courier notice said.
- 1918 On a Sunday in July 1918 more than four hundred people gathered in Grace Episcopal Church in memory of Capt. Lloyd W. Williams, U.S. Marine Corps, "the first son of Clarke county to make the supreme s
- 1918 The rector's address in July 1918, as the Courier reported it, gave Williams's last words as "Don't bother about me; take care of my men"; the inscription on his tablet, as the Courier printed it in 1
- 1918 Rev. Malcolm S. Taylor, who came from Woodstock to Grace Church in May 1918, left for chaplain's training at Camp Zachary Taylor in August, the Courier reported; in February 1919 it reported him back
- 1918 At home, the Commission's history says, Grace Church held a weekly procession of children through Berryville "with flags, music and singing"; the Millwood church bought $1,000 of Liberty Bonds and sen
- 1918 At the 34th reunion, in August 1918, four members answered the roll: J. S. Ware, Nicholas Moore, Jos. N. Wheat and A. Moore, Jr.
- 1918 In December 1918 the Courier reported that Thomas Griffith Lloyd and Charles Lemly Lloyd had both been wounded in France in October; a few weeks later it reported that telegraphed news of Thomas's dea
- 1918 The Clarke Courier of June 27, 1918 reported that Lloyd William Williams of Berryville, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin H. Williams, had been promoted from captain to major in the United States Marine C
- 1918 The Clarke Courier of July 4, 1918 reported that his wife, Mrs. Selina Williams, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin H. Williams, had received a telegram from the War Department that Capt. Lloyd W.
- 1918 The Clarke Courier of July 18, 1918 announced memorial services at Grace Episcopal Church on Sunday, July 21, for Capt. Lloyd Williams, U. S. M. C., "who died of wounds received in France on June 17."
- 1918 At the memorial service at Grace Church in July 1918, the Clarke Courier of July 25, 1918 reported, the rector, Rev. Malcolm S. Taylor, said that Capt. Lloyd W. Williams had been slightly wounded on J
- 1918 The Clarke Courier of November 28, 1918, retelling the account of a lieutenant of his company, reported that on June 6 Capt. Lloyd W. Williams went alone into a wheat field to carry first aid to his w
- 1918 The Clarke Courier of July 10, 1919 reprinted a United Press account that traced the reply "Retreat, Hell No!", attributed for months to Gen. Omar Bundy, to Capt. Lloyd Williams of the 51st Company, 5
- 1918 The Clarke Courier of November 6, 1919, quoting an article by Alexander Woollcott (the paper prints "Woolcott") in the Home Sector, says the story that General Bundy had answered a French order to ret
- 1918 The list of Clarke soldiers' war honors that the Clarke Courier printed on April 26, 1923, compiled from the first volume of the Virginia War History, gives Lloyd William Williams, captain of the 51st
- 1918 The list of Clarke soldiers' war honors that the Clarke Courier printed on April 26, 1923 gives John R. Castleman of Berryville, first lieutenant and air service pilot, a distinguished service cross a
- 1918 Reporting the death of Robert E. Russell, son of Mrs. Mary A. Russell and the late Jesse Russell, the Clarke Courier of November 28, 1918 called him "the second son of Clarke county who has met death
- 1918 The same list of war honors in the Clarke Courier of April 26, 1923 also gives John R. Castleman a silver star citation at Cunel, France, the "same day" as his distinguished service cross, "for gallan
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- 1919 The Sign of the Motor Car Inn opens in the house
- 1919 Cummins buys the building and opens a clinic
- 1919 The Clarke Courier of June 12, 1919 reported that the Patriotic Committee had fixed July 4 as the day to honor the county's returning soldiers, with a parade at 11 o'clock, "a big old-time Virginia di
- 1919 The Clarke Courier of July 3, 1919 printed the final plan for the July 4 welcome home: a parade at 11 o'clock forming near the N. & W. depot, business houses closed during the parade, and a basket pic
- 1919 The Clarke Courier of July 10, 1919 reported that between 5,000 and 6,000 people filled Berryville on July 4 to honor the county's World War veterans, and that a vehicle draped in white carried a flag
- 1919 The Clarke Courier of November 6, 1919 printed a notice that the Lloyd Williams Post No. 41, American Legion, would hold a meeting at Winston Hall on Tuesday, November 11, at 7:30 p.m., and asked vete
- 1919 A Boyce letter in the Courier of February 13, 1919 said Capt. J. M. Robeson, once rector at White Post, Millwood and Boyce and now chaplain of the Second Division, had been wounded in France, and that
- 1919 In July 1919 Mrs. Henry B. Gilpin of "Scaleby," whose sons Lieut. Kenneth N. Gilpin of the Naval Flying Corps and Capt. Donald Gilpin of the artillery had served in France, gave Christ Church, Millwoo
- 1919 In August 1919 the Courier described their wounds: Charles, wounded three times, had re-enlisted in the military police; Thomas Griffith, hit in the hip by a machine-gun bullet at Verdun and then by s
- 1919 Howard B. Lloyd landed in New York in March 1919 and was home in April; on a Berryville street he told a group of men that "The past ten months are the worst I have ever been through," and urged them
- 1919 Charles Lemly Lloyd, "the last of the five soldier sons" to come home, returned in November 1919; badly gassed and wounded in the Argonne with the 318th Regiment, 80th Division, he had swallowed his t
- 1919 The Clarke Courier of September 18, 1919 printed a letter of August 14, 1919 from Father John J. Brady, a Navy chaplain, to Mrs. Lloyd W. Williams, which says: "I did not have the honor of burying Cap
- 1919 The Clarke Courier of September 25, 1919 reported that Maj. Henry W. Carpenter, Sergeant Moses O'Brien and Corporal Robert Fuller, for about 15 veterans of Berryville and vicinity, had applied for the
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- 1920 Post 41 meets at Winston Hall
- 1920 The Census Bureau counted 7,167 people in Clarke County, Virginia, on April 1, 1930, and 7,165 on January 1, 1920 -- a difference of 2 persons, which is 0.03 per cent of the 1920 count (7,167 - 7,165
- 1920 Of the 1,147 children aged 7 to 13 in Clarke County in 1930, 1,019 were returned as attending school -- 88.8 per cent, the figure the census itself printed. Among 16- and 17-year-olds the figure was 5
- 1920 The census returned 269 of Clarke County's 5,661 residents aged 10 and over as illiterate in 1930, a rate of 4.8 per cent. The same table gives the county's 1920 rate as 9.7 per cent.
- 1920 Clarke County returned 27 foreign-born white residents in 1930 and 40 in 1920, out of county populations of 7,167 and 7,165.
- 1920 The Clarke Courier of November 4, 1920 printed Gov. Westmoreland Davis's proclamation designating Thursday, November 11, 1920 a public holiday throughout Virginia, "to be known as Armistice Day."
- 1920 A tribute in the Clarke Courier of February 12, 1920, signed "B." of the J. E. B. Stuart Camp, says John R. Shipe, who died on January 26, 1920, had been a boatman on the Shenandoah before he voluntee
- 1920 In March 1920 the Methodist church announced a service to furl "the National and Service flags which were hung in the church auditorium at the outbreak of the World War," with a sermon on "The Patriot
- 1920 Two years after Belleau Wood, in June 1920, members of the Lloyd Williams Post, American Legion, named for Williams, heard a sermon by Rev. Malcolm S. Taylor in Grace Church and hung a wreath on his t
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- 1921 The statement of ownership printed in the People's Journal in August 1921, as required by the Act of 24 August 1912, declares G. L. D. Harris to be editor, publisher and owner, and states that the own
- 1921 The People's Journal of August 1, 1921 announced that Berryville Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 213 and Eastern Star Courts of Calanthe No. 239 would hold their second annual picnic in Bell's Grove, a q
- 1921 The People's Journal named a barber shop of J. L. Davis, Berryville, in August 1921; of Jack L. Davis, Berryville, in November 1924; and of J. L. Davis again in April 1925.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 4, 1921 prints a list of the members of the five local Farmers' Unions in Clarke County, counting members paid up to January 1, 1921, and lists Baker Chamblin as vice pres
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 9, 1921 reports that the Berryville Local of the Farmers' Union decided to collect delinquent dues and asked farmers who had not paid to send them to Treasurer W. T. Chambli
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of February 17, 1921 names S. S. Thomas among the directors of the new Berryville Basket Co., and its issue of August 18, 1921 lists him among the members of the Berryville Local of
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 31, 1921, reporting the election judges and clerks the Clarke County Electoral Board named for the ensuing year, lists Baker Tapscott as a judge for the Mt. Airy precinct a
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of February 10, 1921, reporting testimony taken in Clarke County in the Harrison-Paul election contest, says that Earnest Dearmont, of White Post, stated he voted for Paul. Its issu
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 31, 1921 reports that the Clarke County Electoral Board appointed George E. Morgan registrar for the court house precinct in place of N. F. Smith, resigned, and lists Geo.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 31, 1921, reporting the appointments of the Clarke County Electoral Board, lists Jos. W. Lloyd as registrar for Morgan's Mill.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of February 10, 1921, reporting testimony taken in Clarke County in the Harrison-Paul election contest, says that in Russells precinct Page Rutherford, the registrar, made the women
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 31, 1921, reporting the appointments of the Clarke County Electoral Board, lists R. H. Ritter as registrar for Millwood.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of November 17, 1921 prints the financial statement of Clarke County for the year ending September 1, 1921, which lists L K. Briggs, Assessor of Lands, with an expenditure printed a
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of May 19, 1921 suggests that Street Superintendent Dan Hickerson have the weeds cut along the Church Street pavement, and its issue of September 8, 1921 names Police Chief Dan Hick
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 31, 1921 lists George C. Thomas as a judge of election for the Court House precinct and also its commissioner. Its issue of January 12, 1922 reports that George C. Thomas,
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of May 5, 1921 reports that Miss Mae Traister, assistant postmaster of Berryville, was taken ill with appendicitis, and its issue of June 9, 1921 reports that she had returned to he
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of January 27, 1921 reports that the Auxiliary of the Lloyd Williams Post, American Legion, met at the residence of Mrs. Sarah Elder and elected her commander. Its issue of June 2,
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of January 27, 1921 reports that the Auxiliary of the Lloyd Williams Post, American Legion, elected Mrs. J. M. H. Clagett vice commander, and its issue of January 12, 1922 names Mrs
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of January 27, 1921 reports that the Auxiliary of the Lloyd Williams Post, American Legion, met at the residence of Mrs. Sarah Elder and elected Miss Elizabeth Moore its secretary.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 16, 1921, reporting the annual convention of The King's Daughters of Clarke County at Minnie Wood Chapel, says the annual reports of the president, of the secretary, Mrs. Ra
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 16, 1921 reports that the Clarke County Community League, meeting at the Boyce Community Building, re-elected Rev. B. D. Chambers chairman and elected Mr. Holly Pifer secret
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of February 17, 1921, reporting the organization of the Berryville Basket Co. by a group of business men of the community, names C. H. Phillips among the men who would constitute it
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 17, 1921 reports that Charles W. Marks bought a lot on Liberty Street from E. G. Coiner, on which he would build a home. Its issue of June 23, 1921, reporting that the film
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 17, 1921 reports that Holmes Hibbard, local superintendent of the Northern Virginia Power Company, bought a lot from M. W. Jones on the Charles Town pike to build a new hom
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of January 13, 1921 reports that Norval L. Carter, proprietor of the Berryville Garage, bought the People's Garage from the receiver, Charles Feltner, and would operate it as the Ce
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of May 19, 1921 reports that T. Eddy Brown sold his combination store and house on Church Street to D. D. Brown for $6,000, and its issue of June 2, 1921 reports that D. D. Brown wa
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of October 20, 1921 prints a letter from Millwood, signed "Anonymous," correcting an earlier report: Miss Elizabeth Houghton had charge of the higher grades of the Millwood school,
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921, reporting that Berryville High School would open on September 14, lists Miss Lucy Parke Shepherd as fifth-grade teacher in the faculty employed up to that time.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of October 6, 1921 reports that an action brought by A. C. Arnett to have the Board of Review reopen the assessment of his land was temporarily dropped in Clarke County Circuit Cour
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of May 26, 1921 reports that Lieut. John R. Castleman, Jr., of Clarke County, son of the late John R. Castleman of Mosby's Rangers, had made the highest average record over four yea
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of January 6, 1921 reports that J. T. Murphy, perhaps the oldest member of the Berryville Methodist Church, South, died near Aldie the Thursday before from paralysis. It says he was
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of January 13, 1921 prints a tribute to the late Joseph C. Jones of Millwood, who died January 4 at the home of A. B. Bevan. It reports that he was 47, a son of the late Rev. Joseph
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of January 27, 1921 reports the death of Mrs. Agnes B. Page, wife of R. Powel Page of "Saratoga," on Saturday, January 22. It says she was the youngest child of George H. Burwell an
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of January 27, 1921, in the obituary of Mrs. Agnes B. Page, wife of R. Powel Page of "Saratoga," names Miss Mary F. Page, of Clarke County, among her five surviving children.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of February 10, 1921 reports that John Hummer, a well-known farmer of the Briggs neighborhood, born in Clarke County, died the Monday before after a long illness with lung trouble,
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of February 10, 1921 reports that the wife of Isaac Bowman, for years one of the leading business men of Berryville, died on a Monday morning after a stroke of paralysis suffered th
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of February 17, 1921 reports that Miss Harriet Washington, a daughter of the late Dr. Henry Washington, for years a prominent physician of Clarke County, and a great-granddaughter o
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of February 24, 1921 reports word of the death at Lynchburg of Thomas T. Garthright, who from 1870 to 1880 ran the harness and saddle business at the carriage works of George C. Tho
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 3, 1921 reports that Mrs. Elizabeth Simons Hart, wife of William E. Hart, died on the Sunday before of surgical pneumonia following an operation at the Winchester Memorial
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 3, 1921, in the obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Simons Hart, says she was the daughter of Elijah Simons of Berryville and names him among her survivors.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 3, 1921 reports that Mrs. Annie E. Robey, wife of John Robey, died on the Tuesday morning before after a long illness with cancer of the liver. It says she was 80 years old
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 3, 1921 reports that Mrs. Mary E. Allen, widow of the late William Temple Allen of Clarke County, died suddenly of heart trouble in Washington on the Sunday before, at 94.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 3, 1921 reports that Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Stolle, wife of L. V. Stolle, died suddenly on the Thursday night before of a ruptured artery of the brain, aged 68. It says she w
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 3, 1921, in the obituary of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Stolle, names Mrs. Thomas Howell of Berryville among her six surviving children.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 10, 1921 reports that Mrs. P. L. Hannum died the Thursday before at the home of her son, Howard C. Hannum, with whom she lived. It says she was born near Berry's Ferry, joi
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 10, 1921 reports that William A. Locke, son of James Locke of near Wadesville and a member of the Locke family of Clarke County, died on the Sunday night before at the gove
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 17, 1921 reports that Newton H. Carpenter, one of "Ashby's brave men" and for years after the war a prominent farmer of Clarke County, died the Thursday before of a complic
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of April 7, 1921 reports that Mrs. Martha Harper, of Washington and Gettysburg, a leader in Eastern Star circles in Washington for whom the Martha Lodge was named, died on the Tuesd
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of April 7, 1921 reports that William Alexander Renner, son of I. H. and Rosa Hummer Renner, died at "Springfield Farm" on March 29 after an illness of three days, aged 19, and was
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of April 7, 1921, in the obituary of William Alexander Renner, names Mrs. Turner Huff, of Clarke, among his four surviving sisters.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of April 14, 1921 reports that Miss Susan Lanham, aged 67, died at her home near Mt. Weather on the Saturday before and was buried in the family lot at Providence Chapel. It says sh
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of April 28, 1921 prints a tribute reporting that Eddy Hugh Garvin, husband of Mary E. Garvin (née Conrad) and father of Mrs. John C. Stuart, died at his son-in-law's home in Washin
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of May 5, 1921 reports that John Dixon, a retired farmer of Clarke County, died the Monday before after a stroke of paralysis a week earlier, on the farm of Benj. Vorous. It says he
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of May 12, 1921 reports that Charles H. Smallwood, road commissioner for Chapel District, died on the Saturday night before at his home near Boyce after a long illness with tubercul
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of May 12, 1921 reports that Miss Betty Morgan, daughter of the late John Morgan, who owned the Hook farm years before, died May 2 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John A. T. Grigsby aft
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of May 26, 1921 reports that Miss Rose Elzey McCormick, daughter of Mrs. Nannie K. McCormick and the late Thomas McCormick, died the Saturday afternoon before at her home, "Frankfor
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of May 26, 1921 announces that a memorial tablet to Robert Russell, killed in France in the World War and the gift of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Lloyd Williams Post, would be unve
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 9, 1921 reports that Fenton P. Whiting, a native of Clarke County, died in Roanoke on the Monday morning before after a long illness from paralysis, and was buried in Green
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 9, 1921, in the obituary of Fenton P. Whiting, says his wife, Maude Lewis, was a sister of Commonwealth's Attorney William Travers Lewis, of R. J. Lewis and C. C. Lewis, and
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 23, 1921 reports that John C. Lee, a leading farmer and stockman and a candidate for the House of Delegates, was instantly killed the Friday before when a northbound Norfolk
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 30, 1921 reports that Capt. Joseph H. Hardesty, former Confederate soldier, retired farmer and stock dealer, died the Thursday night before, aged 88. It says he was born in
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 30, 1921 reports that Charles W. Fritts, a successful farmer and business man of Greenway District, died of heart trouble the Thursday afternoon before, a week after the dea
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of July 21, 1921 reports that Miss Nannie McGuire, one of the most beloved women of Clarke County, had been ill for months and was in critical condition. Its issue of July 28, 1921
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of October 13, 1921 reports that Dr. Edward McGuire, a native of Clarke County and son of the late Dr. Wm. D. McGuire, died at his home in Richmond the Thursday evening before and w
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 11, 1921 reports that Mrs. Laura Shopland, widow of Henry Shopland, a farmer of Clarke County, died the morning before after a long illness. It says she was a daughter of
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 18, 1921 reports that William Nelson Clarke Willson, a merchant and grain dealer at Berryville shortly after the Civil War and a nephew of the late Joseph T. Griffith, die
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921 reports that Mrs. Mary V. Brown, mother of R. C. Brown and D. D. Brown of Berryville, died at her home at Millwood the Monday before after a long illness with Bri
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921, in the obituary of Mrs. Mary V. Brown of Millwood, names R. C. Brown of Berryville among her surviving children.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921, in the obituary of Mrs. Mary V. Brown of Millwood, names H. E. Brown of Millwood among her surviving children.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921, in the obituary of Mrs. Mary V. Brown of Millwood, names Mrs. Florence Hummer of Millwood among her surviving children.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921 reports that Miss Mary Josephine Crown, sister of the late John O. Crown, for nearly half a century editor of the Courier, and aunt of Miss Sarah B. Crown and Joh
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921, in the obituary of Miss Mary Josephine Crown, names her as an aunt of Miss Sarah B. Crown of Berryville.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of September 8, 1921 reports from Millwood the deaths of Mrs. Maria P. Whiting and her brother, the Rev. William Nelson Meade, grandchildren of the late Bishop Meade, at "Edgewood,"
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of September 8, 1921 reports that the Rev. William Nelson Meade, rector of the Episcopal Church at Tappahannock, died of heart trouble at "Edgewood" on the Friday evening of his sis
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of October 27, 1921 reports that Mrs. Mary Herlin Jones, wife of Mayor D. H. Jones and one of the leading members of the Berryville Baptist Church, died the Saturday night before af
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of November 17, 1921 reports that Samuel K. Harris, a native of Baltimore County, Maryland, who had made his home in Berryville for the past 15 years, died of paralysis the Saturday
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of December 1, 1921 reports that W. A. Bradford had returned from New York after the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Louisa B. Ross, wife of Lieut. Gordon Ross of the National Naval Res
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of January 13, 1921 reports that Custis Lewin and Miss Edith Hummer, of Millwood, were married on December 23 at the parsonage by Rev. F. M. Richardson, pastor of the Methodist Chur
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of January 13, 1921 reports that Custis Lewin and Miss Edith Hummer, of Millwood, were married on December 23 at the Methodist parsonage in Winchester, and would make their home nea
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of January 13, 1921 reprints from Richmond that Miss Maude Kennerly of White Post, daughter of the late Frank Kennerly and Mrs. Nannie L. Kennerly of Clarke County, and Thomas E. Bl
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of February 24, 1921 reports that Miss Alice N. Grant of Martinsburg became the bride of Walter Hardesty of Berryville at the parsonage of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of February 24, 1921 reports that Miss Alice N. Grant of Martinsburg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Grant, became the bride of Walter Hardesty of Berryville at the Methodist parson
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 10, 1921 reports that George L. Ziler of Cumberland, Maryland, and Miss Edna E. Shewbridge of Berryville were married by Rev. W. H. Ballengee at the Methodist parsonage on
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 10, 1921 reports that Miss Edna E. Shewbridge of Berryville and George L. Ziler of Cumberland were married by Rev. W. H. Ballengee at the Methodist parsonage on February 19
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of March 31, 1921 reports that Mr. and Mrs. William T. Ramey announced the marriage of their daughter, Miss Fleda May Ramey, to LeRoy McNamara, a Jefferson County farmer, in Washing
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of April 7, 1921 reports that Miss Josephine Holladay was married to Raleigh Colston Carter, one of the leading farmers of Clarke County, on the Tuesday afternoon before at "Pond Qu
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of July 14, 1921 reports from Boyce that Miss Margaretta Colston Carper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Carper, became the bride of Capt. Charles Campbell MacLeod of Lynchburg in Em
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of July 14, 1921 reports that Miss Margaretta Colston Carper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Carper, became the bride of Capt. Charles Campbell MacLeod of Lynchburg in Emmanuel Chap
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of July 21, 1921 reports that Maurice F. Wisecarver of Berryville, a clothing merchant, and Miss Camille Capper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Bruce Capper of Winchester, were married
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921 reports from Millwood that Miss Lucy Meredith Ginn became the bride of Dr. Verne R. Mason, until recently a resident physician of Johns Hopkins Hospital, at noon
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921 reports that Miss Lucy Meredith Ginn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ginn, formerly of Clarke County and then of Chester, Pennsylvania, became the bride of Dr. V
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921 reports that after the wedding of Lucy Meredith Ginn and Dr. Verne R. Mason, the guests were entertained at a luncheon given by Mr. and Mrs. Treadwell Gibson, unc
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921 reports that Miss Gretta Bee Wyndham, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Wyndham of Berryville, became the bride of Charles Leroy Isenberg of McConnellstown, P
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of October 20, 1921 reports that Miss Nancy Goodwin Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin H. Williams of "Airlee" near Berryville, and Tom Lewis Peyton of Washington were marri
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of October 20, 1921 reports that Miss Nancy Goodwin Williams and Tom Lewis Peyton of Washington were married at Grace Episcopal Church, Berryville. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of November 10, 1921 reports that cards had been issued for the marriage of Charles J. Enders, son of Capt. and Mrs. John H. Enders, and Miss Willie Belle Colston, daughter of Mr. a
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of December 1, 1921 reports that Joseph Edward Ritter of Boyce and Miss Irene Pine, daughter of Thomas Pine of Millwood, were married the afternoon before at the Methodist parsonage
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of December 1, 1921 reports that Miss Irene Pine, daughter of Thomas Pine of Millwood, and Joseph Edward Ritter of Boyce were married the afternoon before at the Methodist parsonage
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of December 1, 1921, reporting the marriage of Joseph Edward Ritter and Miss Irene Pine, names the bride as the daughter of Thomas Pine of Millwood.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of February 3, 1921, in its Minnie Wood letter, reports that Mrs. J. M. Rutherford, Miss Madeline Hook of Martinsburg and Miss Eva Lee of Boyce were guests at the home of Mr. and Mr
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of February 10, 1921, reporting the death in New York of the patent attorney William B. Crisp, says he married Miss Mary N. Vandeventer, daughter of Mrs. James Vandeventer of Berryv
- 1921 The Clarke Courier's Minnie Wood letter of February 17, 1921 reports that Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Dofflemyer of White Post visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Dofflemyer. Its letter of May 12, 1921 repo
- 1921 The Clarke Courier's Minnie Wood letter of April 7, 1921 reports that Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Dofflemyer and family spent Easter with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pyles of Boyce. Its let
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of May 5, 1921 reports that during the previous Friday's hailstorm lightning struck the northwest corner of the home of J. W. Barringer on East Main Street, about five feet from Mrs
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of May 5, 1921, reprinting a report from The State of Columbia, South Carolina, of the marriage of Miss Catherine Monteith to E. M. Briggs, proprietor of Briggs' cafe, says the groo
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of May 19, 1921 reports among its local items that Miss Rose Moreland purchased the old Moreland home on Rice Street when it was sold at public auction.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of May 19, 1921 reports that Miss Alice Lee Hansucker of Shepherdstown, niece of Mrs. Frank Galloway of Castleman's Ferry, and Leonard H. Bell of Berryville were quietly married at
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 2, 1921 reports that D. D. Brown, who had recently bought the T. Eddy Brown building on Church Street, would put a glass front in it for his grocery store and butcher shop.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 2, 1921 reports a visit from Kidder Meade, a New York newspaperman, who was at the home of his father, Key Meade, near Boyce, recuperating from a breakdown suffered in the B
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 9, 1921, in the obituary of Fenton P. Whiting, says he married Miss Maude Lewis in 1891, a sister of Commonwealth's Attorney William Travers Lewis, of R. J. Lewis and C. C.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 9, 1921 reports the marriage of Miss Bertha T. Hefner of Washington to Charles A. Blake, formerly of Berryville, on June 1, and says the groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 30, 1921, in local items on new building in Berryville, reports that the foundation for the new house of Mr. and Mrs. James Feltner on South Church Street was completed.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 18, 1921 reports among its personal items that J. Allen Wheat of Charlottesville was visiting his mother, Mrs. Florence Wheat, near Berryville.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921, reporting the marriage of Miss Gretta Bee Wyndham of Berryville and Charles Leroy Isenberg at Robertsville, Ohio, says the couple were accompanied to Robertsvill
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921 reports among its personal items that John Coleman and Miss Helen Semerean of Eccles, West Virginia, who had been visiting his brother W. G. Coleman of Berryville
- 1921 The Clarke Courier's Minnie Wood letter of September 15, 1921 reports that Miss Estelle Rutherford of White Post was visiting relatives in the section for several days. Its letter of December 15, 1921
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of November 17, 1921 reports that C. H. Young, the local butcher, had become a firm believer in inoculating hogs against cholera: when cholera reached the hogs on the Young Bros. fa
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of November 17, 1921 reports that Charles A. Lanham of Boyce claimed the championship for killing rabbits that year: 73 on the opening day of the season and 115 so far, his first da
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of November 24, 1921 reports that J. C. Erb, who lived north of Berryville, came to the Courier office and advertised the posting of his land, saying the carelessness of some hunter
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of November 24, 1921, reporting the Virginia Game and Fisheries Commission's figures for game killed in Clarke, names L. J. Foley of Berryville among the huntsmen who supplied the i
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of November 24, 1921, reporting the Virginia Game and Fisheries Commission's figures for game killed in Clarke, names H. W. Kerfoot of Berryville among the huntsmen who supplied the
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of November 24, 1921, reporting the Virginia Game and Fisheries Commission's figures for game killed in Clarke, names W. A. Dearmont of White Post among the huntsmen who supplied th
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of November 24, 1921, reporting the Virginia Game and Fisheries Commission's figures for game killed in Clarke, names W. O. Wisecarver of Berryville among the huntsmen who supplied
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of December 1, 1921, reprinting from the Charles Town Spirit the obituary of Jacob H. Dutterer, a farmer and fruit grower of Jefferson County, West Virginia, names among his survivi
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of December 22, 1921 reports the wedding at "Delbrook," Riverton, of Miss Jean McNeill Carson, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Carson, and Percy Charrington Randolph, so
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 2, 1921 names Malvin Longerbeam among the seven graduates of Berryville High School at the close of the 1920-21 session, and reports that he delivered the "Key Oration," pre
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 2, 1921 names Miss Alice Mesmer among the seven graduates of Berryville High School and reports that she delivered the "Class Will" at the closing exercises.
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 2, 1921 names Miss Louise Ramsburg among the seven graduates of Berryville High School and reports that she gave the "Presentations," presenting each member of the class wit
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 2, 1921 names Miss Marion Levi among the seven graduates of Berryville High School, reports that a fraction of a point separated her from the second-ranked graduate for firs
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 2, 1921 names Miss Ruth Dean among the seven graduates of Berryville High School and reports that she was chosen to make the class "Prophecy."
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 9, 1921, reporting the closing exercises of the Boyce Agricultural High School, says the three graduates, R. Bruce Golightly and Misses Catherine M. Denny and Nellie K. Jone
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of June 9, 1921, reporting the closing exercises of the Boyce Agricultural High School, says the three graduates, R. Bruce Golightly and Misses Catherine M. Denny and Nellie K. Jone
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of April 21, 1921 reports that Ernest Falbush, recently indicted by the grand jury on charges of violating the prohibition laws, pleaded guilty before Judge Whiting of the Clarke Ci
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of April 28, 1921 reports that Russell Coffman, the nine-year-old son of George Coffman, who lived in the old Osborne property on the Shenandoah River, broke his arm while at play a
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of July 7, 1921, in its Minnie Wood letter, reports that little Billy Gaunt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Gaunt, was very badly scalded on Tuesday morning when he fell back into a buc
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of December 1, 1921 reports that a special grand jury of the Clarke Circuit Court indicted Brookus Lee on a charge of breaking into the store of Spates and Feagans at Briggs and tak
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of December 1, 1921 reports that a special grand jury of the Clarke Circuit Court indicted Granville Kirby and Lester D. Ritter for violating the prohibition act by making liquor, a
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of February 17, 1921 reported that the Berryville Basket Co., Inc., recently chartered by the State Corporation Commission to make all kinds of fruit containers, had begun putting u
- 1921 The same report names Harry C. Warden, a director of the Bank of Clarke County and president of the Hyde County Land and Lumber Co., as head of the company; E. G. Coiner, proprietor of Coiner's Depart
- 1921 The same report says the company would supply fruit growers in that section of Virginia and West Virginia, making baskets for peaches, cherries, huckleberries and raspberries and barrels for apples, a
- 1921 The same report says that, apart from the apple industry, about 60,000 baskets of berries and cherries had been shipped from along the Norfolk and Western within 40 miles of Berryville the year before
- 1921 In July 1921 the Courier reported the plans for Williams's funeral at Berryville: his body was to lie in state in Grace Episcopal Church until the funeral, with a guard of honor from the Lloyd William
- 1921 The Clarke Courier of July 14, 1921 reported that the body of Maj. Lloyd W. Williams, which had reached New York from France after three years, would arrive at Berryville that Thursday morning, with f
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- 1922 The Clarke Courier of January 19, 1922 reports that the Wadesville Farmers' Union, the sixth local of the Farmers' Union in Clarke County, was organized and elected A. S. Robinson its vice president.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of January 19, 1922 reports that the Wadesville Farmers' Union, the sixth local of the Farmers' Union in Clarke County, was organized and elected C. E. Murphy its secretary-treasure
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 13, 1922 reports that twelve farmers were named to act as an Advisory Council for County Agricultural Agent Robert B. Crawford, and lists Jos. Shenk among them.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 2, 1922 prints a notice of the public sale of an Overland automobile in front of the Court House at Berryville on February 4, signed J. M. Litton, Deputy Sheriff of Clar
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of January 12, 1922 prints figures compiled by J. F. McDonald, superintendent of the Berryville and Charles Town and Berryville and Summit Point turnpike roads in Battletown Distric
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of January 12, 1922 reports the officers elected by the Woman's Auxiliary of the Lloyd Williams Post, American Legion, for 1922, naming Miss Fannie Fenton treasurer.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 27, 1922 reports that the Woman's Club of Clarke County, meeting at the Parish House on April 13 with nineteen members present, elected Mrs. W. M. S. Hammond president for
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 16, 1922 reports that at the regular monthly meeting of the Clarke County Community League, held at Boyce on February 13, Miss Bettie Bradford presided in the absence of
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, reporting the August meeting of the Clarke County Community League at the Parish Hall in Boyce, lists Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Butler as chairman of the recreation com
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of September 28, 1922 reports that at the first meeting for stock subscriptions of the new Building and Loan Association for Clarke County, Hon. A. Moore, Jr., retired president of
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 23, 1922, in its tribute to the lawyer Conrad Kownslar, quotes D. L. Fries, proprietor of The Battletown Inn, recalling that he laid a case before Mr. Kownslar and was advi
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 1 and June 8, 1922 prints a notice that the Berryville Supply Company would have specials for Friday and Saturday, signed J. H. Goss, Proprietor.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 29, 1922 reports that the Clarke County Creamery would take a holiday on the Fourth of July so that its manager, Pete Rutherford, could spend the day with the Woodmen at the
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of October 19, 1922 reports that R. L. Aylor, the new owner of the Clarke Milling Co., had bought the house of B. J. Longerbeam on South Church Street and was remodeling it.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of September 28, 1922 prints the notice of B. O'F. Randolph's public sale of registered cattle and hogs at "The Moorings," Millwood, with F. B. Neville as auctioneer, and its issue
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 16, 1922 reports that Rev. W. H. Ballengee, pastor of the Methodist Church, South, at Berryville, would ask to be placed on the retired list at the next conference on accou
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 16, 1922 prints the resolution of the Fourth Quarterly Conference of the Berryville Charge, M. E. Church, South, thanking the Rev. W. H. Ballengee for his services, signed
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of May 18, 1922, in its Millwood news, reports that Mother's Day special services were held under the auspices of the Order of Fraternal Americans in their hall by their chaplain, R
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 1, 1922, reporting the Blue Ridge Hunt Club's horse show and races at Carter Hall, says E. B. Jacobs' entries took three silver cups in the jumping events, and its issue of
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of May 4, 1922, writing of foreigners in Peking, recalls the Boxer uprising, when "another Berryville boy," Passed Assistant Surgeon Thomas M. Lippitt, U. S. N., was wounded badly i
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of January 5, 1922 lists Wilbur Price among the Berryville Local's delegates to the county convention of the Farmers' Union. Its issue of March 9, 1922 reports that the plan for the
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of January 19, 1922 reports from Millwood that Col. J. Douglas Bruce, for many years a citizen of the Boyce neighborhood, died early on the Tuesday morning before at the home of Mrs
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of January 19, 1922 reports from Millwood that Col. J. Douglas Bruce died at the home of Mrs. Henry Jenkins, where he had lived for more than a year.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of January 12, 1922 reports that Miss Letha Swisher, one of Berryville's telephone operators, would go to Richmond for an operation at St. Luke's Hospital. Its issue of February 2,
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 2, 1922 reports from Millwood that George C. Neville, aged 62, a son of the late A. V. Neville of Millwood, died on Wednesday morning, January 25, at the Springfield Sta
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 2, 1922 reports that Mrs. Jane L. Hardesty, mother of W. M. Hardesty and one of the oldest residents of Clarke County, died at her home on Treadwell Street of the infirm
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 2, 1922 reports that Miss Helen Helm Dortch, daughter of Mrs. Hattie Williams Dortch of "Mt. Hebron" Farm, Clarke County, and a descendant of Col. Leroy Peachy, was inst
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 2, 1922, reporting the death of Miss Helen Helm Dortch in the "Knickerbocker Theatre" collapse, names her as the daughter of Mrs. Hattie Williams Dortch of "Mt. Hebron"
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 2, 1922 reports word of the death of Joseph H. Stickles, a former citizen of Clarke County, on January 3 at the home of his son, H. B. Stickles, at Texas, Maryland, aged
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 9, 1922 reports that Private Linton Earl Lloyd, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. W. Lloyd of near Berry's Ferry and one of five Lloyd brothers who went to France, was d
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 16, 1922 reports that Albert Polhamus, one of the oldest citizens of Berryville, died the Monday morning before at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. H. Bayliss, aged 81, a
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 23, 1922 reports that Mr. and Mrs. George C. Ricamore, formerly of Berryville, marked their golden wedding anniversary on Valentine's Day at the home of their daughter a
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 23, 1922 reports that Mrs. J. Edward Barnett, wife of J. Edward Barnett, chairman of the Clarke County Board of Supervisors, died suddenly the Friday evening before afte
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 23, 1922 reports from White Post that William F. Powers, a well-known miller of Clarke County, died of valvular heart trouble at his home at Ashby Station on February 14
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 2, 1922 reports that Miss Cora Shackleford, daughter of the late John H. Shackleford and Mary Lancaster Shackleford of Berryville, died the Tuesday night before of pneumoni
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of July 20, 1922 reports that Peter Fuqua, one of Gen. Pickett's men in the charge at Gettysburg, died the Saturday before at the Frederick County home of his daughter and son-in-la
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922 reports that Wm. F. Pyle, aged 81, a farmer who had lived near Boyce all his life, died at the home of his son, Milton S. Pyle, near Boyce, and lists Milton S.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 2, 1922 reports that Mrs. Martha Smallwood, mother of Lewis Smallwood of Berryville, died at her home in Loudoun County, aged 93, and that her body would be brought to Berr
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 2, 1922 reports that relatives in Clarke County had word of the death of Samuel Bonham a few days before at Sherman, Texas, of pneumonia, aged 90. It says he was a son of t
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 16, 1922 reports that Logan T. Lloyd, son of Letcher Lloyd of Clarke County, who suffered a fractured skull when thrown from his motorcycle to the hard turnpike, died at th
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 16, 1922, in the obituary of Logan T. Lloyd, names him as the son of Letcher Lloyd of Clarke County.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 16, 1922 reports that Mrs. Vienna Osburn, wife of Decatur Osburn, a retired farmer of Clarke County, and sister of Dr. A. P. Osborne, died of pneumonia at her home east of
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 16, 1922, in the obituary of Mrs. Vienna Osburn, names Mason Osburn of Clarke County among her stepchildren.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 23, 1922 reports that Hon. Conrad Kownslar, a lawyer and one of the foremost citizens of Clarke County, died the Saturday night before at his home on South Church Street, a
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 23, 1922 reports from Boyce that E. Stover Cooper died of pneumonia the Tuesday afternoon before, aged 74, after several weeks' illness, and was to be buried in Green Hill
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 23, 1922 reports word of the death at Martinsburg the Tuesday night before of Mrs. Jos. N. Payne, sister of Mrs. John M. Fishpaw and a former resident of Clarke County, who
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 30, 1922 reports the sudden death during the night before of William J. Starkey, a retired farmer and miller, at his home on the J. H. Bell place on the river pike. It says
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 6, 1922 reprints from the Shepherdstown Register the death of L. Kirk Hardesty, a livestock dealer in Jefferson and Berkeley counties, on the Sunday morning before at the h
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 6, 1922 reports that Miss Virginia Washington, the last of the Washington family in Clarke County and a great-granddaughter of Warner Washington, died the Monday morning be
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 13, 1922 reports that Joseph O. Wilson, a former business man of Winchester, died the Sunday morning before at the home of his sister, Mrs. Harry C. Warner, after an illnes
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 13, 1922 reports that Morgan Van Deventer, a son of the late Cornelius Van Deventer of Clarke County, a grandson of the late Benj. Morgan of the county, and a brother of Ca
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 13, 1922 prints a contributed notice that Wayeman Gaunt, seventeen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Gaunt, died April 6, 1922, at the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospit
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that Mrs. Eliza Philipine Myerly, wife of J. G. Myerly of near Poolesville, Maryland, died at her home on the Saturday before, and that she was born in Cla
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that Mrs. Jennie Eleyette, widow of the late John Elleyette, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Mary Lanham, at Boyce on Thursday night, March 23, of pneu
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports from Briggs that Miss Margaret Elizabeth Vorous, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vorous, died the Thursday night before after a long illness, having been a
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 27, 1922 prints a notice that Irene Ruth Peyton, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Peyton, died at her home at Boyce on Friday, April 14, 1922, aged three months and
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 27, 1922 names Irene Ruth Peyton, who died at her home at Boyce, as the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Peyton.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 27, 1922 lists Mary P. Whiting among the Boyce and Millwood contributors to Near East Relief. Its issue of September 21, 1922 reports that Miss Mary P. Whiting, whom the he
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 27, 1922 reports that Mrs. Catherine Lloyd, mother-in-law of Sheriff W. W. Smallwood, died at the home of her son, Thomas Lloyd, on April 14 of the infirmities of old age,
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 27, 1922 reports that Mrs. Charles Kenneth Brown, wife of Prof. Brown, principal of the Fishersville High School and former principal of Berryville High School, died the we
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 27, 1922 reports that Mrs. Hattie Helvestine Crampton, wife of William O. Crampton, died at her home on the Sunday afternoon before after an illness of over a year. The hea
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of May 18, 1922 reports that Mrs. Lucy E. Royston, wife of Thomas A. Royston, died on May 3 at her daughter's home in Winchester after a long illness, and was buried at Green Hill C
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 1, 1922 reprints from the Richmond News-Leader of May 30 that Dr. Hugh McGuire Taylor, 66, one of the best-known physicians and surgeons of Richmond, died that morning at hi
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 24, 1922 reports that Harry Pearrell, a fruit man employed by Harry Warden, died suddenly at his home on East Main Street the Monday before of a ruptured blood vessel, aft
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 31, 1922 reports that Mrs. Henrietta R. Ogden, widow of the late Randolph K. Ogden, for years a leading citizen of Berryville, died at her home the Thursday before after a
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 31, 1922, in the obituary of Mrs. Henrietta R. Ogden, names Miss Minnie Ogden of Berryville among her three children.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 31, 1922 reports that Mrs. Nina R. Long, wife of James F. Long, who tenanted the Ralph Grigsby farm, died in the Winchester Hospital the Thursday before of hemorrhages aft
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of September 14, 1922 reports that Mrs. Amelia Hough Carroll, widow of John Carroll, who ran "Montana Hall," the home of the late W. G. Conrad, died at her son's home in Montana and
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of September 14, 1922, in the obituary of Mrs. Amelia Hough Carroll, names Grover Carroll of Millwood among her five sons.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of October 12, 1922 reports telegrams announcing the death at his home in Augusta, Georgia, that Tuesday morning, of Col. Rice Smith, a retired official of the Virginia-Carolina Che
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of October 19, 1922 reports from Boyce that Mrs. Martha A. Sillman died September 30 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Susie Cadwallader, at Boyce. It says she married John A. Sillm
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of October 19, 1922 reports that Mrs. Martha A. Sillman died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Susie Cadwallader, at Boyce.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of November 3, 1922 reports that Fred L. Crown, a son of John O. Crown of Berryville and a brother of Miss Sarah B. Crown and of the Courier's editor, died suddenly at his home in M
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of November 9, 1922 reports that Mrs. Florence Jones Tilford, widow of John B. Tilford, one of the original Standard Oil magnates, and mother of Frank V. Tilford, died at Blue Ridge
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922 reports that Charles Lewis Willingham, a lifelong resident of Clarke County, died at the home of his son, Wm. W. Willingham, near Berryville, on November 5, age
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922 reports that Charles Lewis Willingham died at the home of his son, Wm. W. Willingham, near Berryville, and names him first among three sons.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922, in the obituary of Charles Lewis Willingham, names Mrs. Kate Cornwell of White Post among his two daughters.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922, in the obituary of Charles Lewis Willingham, names his one sister, Mrs. Jennie Cooper of Boyce.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922 reports that Wm. F. Pyle, aged 81, died on a Monday morning at the home of his son, Milton S. Pyle, near Boyce. It says he was a farmer who had lived near Boyce
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922, in the obituary of Wm. F. Pyle, names Mrs. John Ritter of Boyce among his surviving children.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922, in the obituary of Wm. F. Pyle, names his one surviving brother, Robert Pyle of Boyce.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922, in the obituary of Wm. F. Pyle, names his one surviving sister, Mrs. Robert Goodrick of Boyce.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922 reports that Norman B. Wynkoop, a farmer, died early on the Saturday morning before at his home near Berryville, aged 47, and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of December 7, 1922 reports that M. W. Jones died at his home in Berryville on the Sunday evening before. It says Matthew Williamson Jones was born September 24, 1848, near Rippon,
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of December 7, 1922, in the obituary of M. W. Jones, names Mrs. George Britton of Berryville as his only sister.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of January 5, 1922 reports that Mrs. Grace Eaton, daughter of Mrs. Wm. Shackleford of Berryville, was married to Wm. Legg of Washington in that city on Christmas Day, and that the c
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 9, 1922 reports from Boyce that Miss Audrey Zombro, aged 16, and John Lanham, aged 20, both of Berryville, surprised their friends by going to Charles Town on Wednesday,
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 9, 1922 reports that John Lanham, aged 20, and Miss Audrey Zombro, aged 16, both of Berryville, were married at Charles Town on February 1, and that the groom is the onl
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 9, 1922 reports that Mrs. Mary Elliotte, widow of Charles Elliotte, and John Gore of White Post were quietly married at Hagerstown the Saturday before by Rev. T. J. Coff
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 9, 1922 reports that Mrs. Mary Elliotte and John Gore of White Post were quietly married at Hagerstown the Saturday before.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 9, 1922 reports that Mrs. Wm. Mallory of Berryville, sister of the bride, witnessed the marriage of Mrs. Mary Elliotte and John Gore at Hagerstown.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 23, 1922 names Miss Mable Barnett of Berryville among the survivors of her mother, Mrs. J. Edward Barnett. Its issue of May 4, 1922 reports that Miss Mable Barnett, daug
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 23, 1922 reports that Judge William M. Struder of Millwood, for years a justice of the peace of Chapel District, became a bridegroom the Saturday afternoon before, marry
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 2, 1922 reports that Miss Stella Augusta Trenary and Carl L. Wellinger of Martinsburg were quietly married the Friday afternoon before at the home of the bride's uncle and
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 2, 1922 reports that Miss Stella Augusta Trenary and Carl L. Wellinger were married at the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kercheval, and that she is the dau
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 30, 1922 reports that Mrs. Jaquelin Smith Powers of Berryville announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Sophie Gieski Powers, to John Davidson Rhodes of Taplin, West
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 30, 1922 announces the engagement of Miss Sophie Gieski Powers to John Davidson Rhodes of Taplin, West Virginia. Its issue of April 27, 1922 reports their marriage at the b
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that Miss Virginia Gaunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gaunt of Clarke County, became the bride of Cornelius H. Webster of Cumberland, Maryland, at the Ba
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that Miss Virginia Gaunt became the bride of Cornelius H. Webster of Cumberland, Maryland, at the Baptist Church on Easter Monday, and that he was in the w
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that Miss Virginia Gaunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gaunt of Clarke County, became the bride of Cornelius H. Webster at the Baptist Church on Easter Mo
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922, reporting the wedding at Glenarm, Maryland, of Miss Ira E. Painter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose C. Painter, formerly of Boyce, to George W. Joy of Baltimore,
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 27, 1922 announces the wedding of Miss Rosa Woolfolk, daughter of Mrs. Eliza Turpin and granddaughter of the late Capt. William N. Nelson, to Richard P. Whiting, quietly pe
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of May 4, 1922 reports that Miss Mettie Levi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Levi and one of the telephone operators of the Berryville exchange, was married to J. Perry Smith at the
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 1, 1922 reports from Briggs that Miss Naomi Willingham, daughter of the late D. W. Willingham, was married at noon that day to Arthur Ashwood, son of S. M. Ashwood, at the h
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 1, 1922 reports that Miss Naomi Willingham, daughter of the late D. W. Willingham of Clarke County, married Arthur Ashwood at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Royston near Bri
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 1, 1922 reports from Briggs that Naomi Willingham and Arthur Ashwood were married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Royston, near Briggs, in the parlor of the Royston home.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 1, 1922, reporting the wedding of Naomi Willingham and Arthur Ashwood at the Royston home near Briggs, names Miss Dorothy Murphy of Berryville as maid of honor.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 8, 1922 reports that Miss Mary Denny, daughter of Mrs. Marietta Denny and the late James Richard Denny, and Winter Bushong Sowers, son of Clayton K. Sowers, an orchardist, w
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 15, 1922 reports from Millwood that Miss Evelyn Turpin, granddaughter of the late Capt. William N. Nelson, was married the afternoon before at Christ Episcopal Church to Sum
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 15, 1922 reports that Miss Evelyn Turpin was married to Sumner F. Dudley Walters of Montclair, New Jersey, at Christ Church, Millwood, the afternoon before. Patricia B. Dunc
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 22, 1922 reports that Miss Ellen McGill Baker, daughter of Henry William Baker, president of the First National Bank of Berryville, became the bride of Alfred Moss Kerfoot,
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of October 19, 1922 announces the marriage of Miss Willa Hough, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Hough of Findlay, Ohio, and Broaddus Morris, son of F. H. Morris of Berryville, quietl
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of October 26, 1922 reports word from Washington of the marriage of Mrs. Sylvia DeBeck Lewis, who made her summer home in Berryville, to Richard Isreal of Washington. It says she ow
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of November 30, 1922 reports that William Johnson and Miss Elsie Marie Jenkins, both of Clarke County, were married at the Methodist parsonage by Rev. L. L. Lowance on Wednesday, No
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of November 30, 1922 reports that William Johnson and Miss Elsie Marie Jenkins, both of Clarke County, were married at the Methodist parsonage by Rev. L. L. Lowance on November 2, 1
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 9, 1922, in its White Post news, reports that Miss Louisa Glass of Berryville was visiting her cousin at White Post.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier's Minnie Wood letter of June 15, 1922 reports that Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rutherford of White Post visited the home of John Rutherford. Its letter of August 31, 1922 reports that Miss E
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 27, 1922 reports that Miss Katerine Pulliam, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Pulliam of Berryville, a trained nurse, was at the Willard Hotel with a patient critically ill w
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of May 11, 1922 reports that a fire of unknown origin razed the Gardner building at White Post, occupied by its owner Mrs. C. M. Gardner as a residence and by W. M. Snell as a gener
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of May 11, 1922, reporting the fire that destroyed the Gardner building at White Post, says the Boyce fire engine saved the house and outbuildings of Mrs. Turner Ashby, who lived ne
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 29, 1922 prints a letter to the editor, headed as a call for a Carnegie hero medal, about James Frank Moore, known as "Jim," an old Confederate soldier who came into the cou
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 24, 1922, reporting the Pierce family reunion at "Fountain Head," the old home of A. Newton Pierce, says that J. Vance Pierce of Winchester, a great-uncle, and Mrs. Lydia
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 31, 1922 reports among its personal items that Mr. and Mrs. Turner Huff and Miss Edith Lloyd of Berryville were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Amos Huff near Upperville and attendi
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of May 18, 1922 names Miss Elizabeth Fishpaw among the eight young women to receive diplomas from Berryville High School on May 31, and its report of June 8, 1922 names her among th
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of May 18, 1922 names Miss Gertrude Rush among the eight young women to receive diplomas from Berryville High School, and its report of June 8, 1922 names her among the graduates.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of May 18, 1922 names Miss Grace Young among the eight young women to receive diplomas from Berryville High School, and its report of June 8, 1922 says she was chosen to deliver the
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 1, 1922 names A. Rice Green among the five graduates of the Boyce Agricultural High School, and its issue of June 15, 1922 reports that Rice Green graduated and received the
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 1, 1922 names C. Chamblin Funkhouser among the five graduates of the Boyce Agricultural High School, calls him the star athlete of Clarke County, says he would deliver the s
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 1, 1922 names F. Margaret Rodgers among the five graduates of the Boyce Agricultural High School who would receive diplomas at the exercises of June 5. Its report of June 15
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 1, 1922 names Kathryn M. Sprint among the five graduates of the Boyce Agricultural High School, and its issue of June 15, 1922 reports that Katheryn Sprint graduated and rec
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 15, 1922, reporting the closing exercises of the Boyce High School, names Albert Clark among the pupils awarded athletic medals for the highest number of points won in their
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of June 15, 1922, reporting the closing exercises at Boyce, names Anna Hemsley among the pupils awarded athletic medals for the highest number of points in their class at the Berryv
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, which it says drew between eight and nine thousand people, lists Miss Adah Levi in the Woman's Department as
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, reports that Miss Catherine Funkhouser of White Post captured the prize for the best baby beef in the Boys'
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, lists Harry Vernon Pifer first, and Regina Pifer second, in a Poland China pig class of the Boys' and Girls'
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, lists Kenneth Simpson first in a second Poland China pig class of the Boys' and Girls' Department.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, lists Robert Hardesty first in the Hampshire pig class of the Boys' and Girls' Department.
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, which it says drew between eight and nine thousand people, lists Mrs. Fleeta McNamara in the Woman's Departm
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, which it says drew between eight and nine thousand people, lists Mrs. Frank Hart in the Woman's Department a
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, which it says drew between eight and nine thousand people, lists Mrs. Harry Pearrell in the Woman's Departme
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, which it says drew between eight and nine thousand people, lists Mrs. Howard Locke in the Woman's Department
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, which it says drew between eight and nine thousand people, lists Mrs. Lora Stimson in the Woman's Department
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, which it says drew between eight and nine thousand people, lists Mrs. M. W. Jones in the Woman's Department
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, which it says drew between eight and nine thousand people, lists Mrs. R. H. McAtee in the Woman's Department
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, which it says drew between eight and nine thousand people, lists Mrs. John Shewbridge in the Woman's Departm
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, which it says drew between eight and nine thousand people, lists Mrs. T. M. Hooker in the Woman's Department
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, which it says drew between eight and nine thousand people, lists Mrs. Will Moore in the Woman's Department a
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of February 16, 1922 reports that Justice Longerbeam of the Boyce neighborhood was found guilty on a charge of seduction by a jury in the Clarke Circuit Court and given two years in
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of March 9, 1922 reports that Sarah Phillips, wife of Walker Phillips and daughter of Edward Jenkins, was seriously injured about the head when thrown from a buggy on Monday after t
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that Miss Fannie Kennerly of White Post was knocked down and run over on Sunday night by a car driven by Walker Grubbs as people left Meade Memorial Church
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that as people left Meade Memorial Church at White Post on a Sunday night, Walker Grubbs started his car and was blinded by the lights of another car, and
- 1922 The Clarke Courier of May 4, 1922 reports that Mrs. William A. Owens, mother of Claud Owens, was badly injured when she fell in the yard, that her hip was injured and Dr. J. E. Harris feared it was fr
- 1922 The Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project's Sugar Hill page says the Sugar Hill name was used in a 1922 deed from the Trustees of Boyce School District to the County School Board which mentioned a
- 1922 Linton Earl Lloyd, the youngest, who served with Co. D, 101st Infantry, 26th Division, drowned in February 1922 at 24 in a small reservoir not far from his father's home; he and his four brothers were
- 1922 The letter in the Clarke Courier of June 29, 1922 that calls for a Carnegie hero medal for James Frank Moore is signed with the initials "W. A. B.", and closes with the line "Here lies one who loved h
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- 1923 The Clarke Courier of February 22, 1923 prints a notice on dog license tags signed "B. F, Lippitt, Game Warden," and its issue of January 17, 1924, reporting the death at Luray of Brig. Gen. Robert F.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of July 19, 1923 lists Miss Cassie Pidgeon under Berryville High School among the teacher appointments already made for the county's schools, and its issue of September 4, 1924, rep
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of July 19, 1923 lists Miss Edith Estep, printed "M'o Edith Estep," under Berryville High School among the teacher appointments already made for the county's schools, and its issue
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of November 22, 1923 names Mr. H. C. Barthel president of the community league newly organized at the Gaylord School, and its issue of March 27, 1924 reports that at the Gaylord Com
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of January 25, 1923 prints the annual report of J. Ed. Ogden, printed "J. EM. Ogden," Corporation Treasurer of Berryville, for September 1, 1921 to September 1, 1922, as submitted t
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of January 25, 1923 reports that Commonwealth's Attorney Joseph F. Moore was kept at home for three days by the flu, and its issue of May 1, 1924 reports that a new private secretar
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of July 19, 1923 lists Miss Lille Garver under Boyce High School among the teacher appointments already made for the county's schools, and its issue of September 11, 1924 lists Miss
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of May 3, 1923, reporting that Boyce students won the literary contests against the Berryville pupils, names Miss Lola Funkhouser and Clay Carr of Boyce as the debaters who took the
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of February 8, 1923, reporting that women voters of Clarke County organized the Berryville Branch of the Virginia League of Woman Voters, names Mrs. Frank B. Whiting chairman of its
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of January 11, 1923 prints a notice of a public sale at auction on that day, signed "Coleman Dunn, Auctioneer," and its issue of March 15, 1923 prints a notice of a cleanup sale nam
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of January 18, 1923, reporting the annual election of officers of the Clarke County Farmers' Union, names Clifton Price, of the Berryville Local, among the union's vice-presidents,
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of February 1, 1923 reports that "The Prisoner of Zenda," a picture of ten reels, was shown in the "New Theatre" without a stop by use of two machines that the owner, John H. Huyett
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of April 26, 1923 prints a notice from the Circuit Court of Clarke County in which Lucy A. Allen, Deputy Clerk of the court, certifies that the bond required of the special commissi
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of May 10, 1923 reports that the Woman's Club of Clarke County, at its annual meeting on April 26, elected Miss Kate Powers president, and its issue of August 16, 1923, printing the
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of May 10, 1923 reports that the Woman's Club of Clarke County elected Miss Emma Jones vice president, and its issue of December 6, 1923, under the headline "Berryville Woman," repo
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923 reports that the Democratic Executive Committee declared Frank McCormick, the present incumbent, the unopposed nominee for the Board of Supervisors from Battletown
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923 reports that at its meeting of June 23, 1923 the Democratic Executive Committee elected Henry Rutherford, from Longmarsh District, to fill the vacancy of the late J
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of August 9, 1923 describes Mr. William H. Mesmer as chairman of the Clarke County Electoral Board and a well known retired farmer.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of August 16, 1923 reports that Mrs. Jessie T. Scott had been secured as the county worker, to begin her duties on August 15 with infant welfare work until the public schools opened
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of August 16, 1923, printing the program of the Woman's Club of Clarke County for 1923-24, lists Miss Alice C. Ferguson on the program committee.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of August 16, 1923, printing the program of the Woman's Club of Clarke County for 1923-24, lists Miss Annie T. Ferguson on the social committee.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of October 11, 1923 reports that the Golden Rule Circle of the King's Daughters, meeting in the American Legion rooms, elected Miss Ollie Thomas vice-president for the coming year.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of October 11, 1923 reports that the Golden Rule Circle of the King's Daughters, meeting in the American Legion rooms, elected Miss Mamie White treasurer for the coming year.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of October 11, 1923 reports that the Golden Rule Circle of the King's Daughters elected Miss Agnes Tapscott one of its delegates to the state convention to be held in Staunton from
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 6, 1923, reporting that Treadwell Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, had been duly instituted, lists Miss Nettie Owens as the chapter's chaplain.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 6, 1923 reports that Lloyd Williams Post, No. 41, American Legion, named Mr. Ernest Locke treasurer for the year.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 13, 1923 reports that the Community League of the Old Chapel School, organized on the evening of November 28, elected Miss Mamie Spates vice president.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 13, 1923 reports that Battletown Lodge No. 98, I. O. O. F., meeting in Masonic Hall on its regular election night, elected John W. Riely treasurer for the ensuing term.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of July 19, 1923, in a list of teacher appointments already made for the county's schools, lists Miss Bessie Thornton under Riverside.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of July 19, 1923, in a list of teacher appointments already made for the county's schools, lists Miss Clara Rush under Riverside.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of July 19, 1923, in a list of teacher appointments already made for the county's schools, lists Miss Josephine Stipe under Oak Grove.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of July 19, 1923, in a list of teacher appointments already made for the county's schools, lists Miss Elsie Kelley under Pine Grove.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of July 19, 1923, in a list of teacher appointments already made for the county's schools, lists Miss Elva Kelley under Providence Chapel.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of July 19, 1923, in a list of teacher appointments already made for the county's schools, lists Miss Mary Wharton under Mt. Carmel.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of July 19, 1923, in a list of teacher appointments already made for the county's schools, lists Mr. Emmett Day under Shenandoah.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of July 19, 1923, in a list of teacher appointments already made for the county's schools, lists Lawrence Phillipps first under "Millwood Col."
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 15, 1923, reporting the attendance of Clarke schools for February, names Miss Carolyn Kackley as teacher of Hawthorne, at 84 per cent, and its issue of July 19, 1923 lists
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of February 15, 1923, giving the attendance of the county schools by school and teacher, names Mrs. Miller and Miss Mattie Marlowe as the teachers of Riverside, with an attendance o
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 15, 1923, reporting the attendance of Clarke schools for February, names Miss Helen Jobe as teacher of Marvin, at 74.5 per cent.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 15, 1923, reporting the attendance of Clarke schools for February, names Miss Della McAboy, printed "McAb0y," as teacher of Pierce, at 73.9 per cent.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 29, 1923, in an item from Briggs dated March 26, reports that Principal Bruce Golightly, of the Old Chapel School, wanted his pupils to know something of the lives and work
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 21, 1923, reporting on the progress of the Berryville schools, says the present staff of teachers will be kept, with the exception of Miss Ella Gray, who does not intend to
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 8, 1923, reporting that post office robbers at Berryville were foiled by Deputy Sheriff C. M. Feltner, says Mr. Feltner called Miss Bertie Lesser, the telephone operator, w
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of October 11, 1923, printing the notice of Democratic candidates unopposed in the November 6 election, lists Ernest L. Alger as the candidate for overseer of the poor of Clarke Cou
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923 prints a notice from Holmes E. McAboy of Wadesville announcing himself a candidate for overseer of the poor in Long Marsh District in the Democratic primary of Augu
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923 reports that the Democratic Executive Committee declared its nominees for the primary of August 7, listing John F. Stinson for justice of the peace in Chapel Distri
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of July 5, 1923 reports that Miss Mary Elisabeth Pidgeon, of Wadesville, who is connected with the extension department of the University of Virginia, will be one of the principal s
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of April 26, 1923 prints a list, compiled from the first volume of the Virginia War History, of Clarke soldiers awarded honors in the World War, naming William Graham Reynolds of Be
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of April 26, 1923, printing a list of Clarke soldiers awarded medals in the World War from the first volume of the Virginia War History, notes that the volume does not give the name
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of May 24, 1923 reports that Mrs. Frank Walter, daughter of the late Thomas D. Gold, was visiting "Ellwood," the home of her sister Miss Mary Washington Gold, and its issue of June
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 7, 1923 reports that the state road between Old Chapel and Boyce would soon be completed, and that John Yowell of Boyce was superintending its construction.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of January 18, 1923 reports that E. R. Curtis of Wadesville, formerly a civil engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, died the Saturday before, about 65, and names Albert Curti
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of January 18, 1923 reports the death of E. R. Curtis of Wadesville, and names Miss Beatrice Curtis of Wadesville among his four surviving children.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 20, 1923 reports the death of William Andrew Johnston, for many years one of the best-known residents of the Wickliffe section of Clarke County, and names Mrs. G. L. Car
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of January 25, 1923 reports the sudden death from heart failure on Friday, January 19, of Maggie Higgins Smith, who for over thirty-one years had served the Gilpin family, first as
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of January 25, 1923 reports the death of Charles Shumate, a farmer of the Berry's Ferry neighborhood, and names Thomas Shumate of near White Post as one of his two surviving brother
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of February 22, 1923, reporting the death of George H. Wright on February 9 at his home near Wadesville, on the Frederick County side of the Opequon, names Miss Johnetta Wright, at
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of February 22, 1923 reports the death of Samuel J. Wiley, a former resident of Clarke County, at his home at Red Bud, Frederick County, and names Mrs. E. O. Carroll of Clarke among
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of February 22, 1923 reports the death of Samuel J. Wiley, a former resident of Clarke County, and names S. C. Wiley of Millwood among his five surviving sons.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of February 22, 1923, in the obituary of Decatur Osburn, names Mrs. Maurice Castleman of Berryville among his three surviving daughters.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 1, 1923, in its account of the life of John C. Rutherford, names Miss Mary Rutherford of near Berryville among his surviving children.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 1, 1923, in its account of the life of John C. Rutherford, names Miss Minnie Rutherford of near Berryville among his surviving children.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 15, 1923, in the obituary of Isaac Bowman, a Confederate artilleryman, says Mr. Bowman married twice, and that by his second wife, Miss Ellen Jones, he had one son, Berkley
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 15, 1923 reports that Miss Clara Tavenner, sister of Frank Tavenner of the Bethel neighborhood, died at the Winchester Memorial Hospital.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 15, 1923, in the obituary of Miss Grace Lupton, names Miss Jessie Lupton of Berryville among her four surviving sisters.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 15, 1923, in the obituary of Miss Grace Lupton, names her one brother, Thomas Lupton of Berryville.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 15, 1923 reports that John Wells of Petersburg, a brother of Mrs. Floyd Dorsey of Berryville, died at his home there, aged 20.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 29, 1923, in the obituary of Fred N. Ryan, names Miss Katie Ryan of Clarke among his seven surviving sisters.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 29, 1923, in the obituary of Fred N. Ryan, names Mrs. John A. T. Grigsby first among his seven surviving sisters, with Miss Katie Ryan "of Clarke."
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of April 5, 1923 reports from Boyce that Delany C. Hoff, eleven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Hoff, died at his parents' home near Boyce on Monday night, March 25, and was burie
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of April 5, 1923 reports from Boyce that Delany C. Hoff, eleven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Hoff, died at his parents' home near Boyce on the night of March 25, and that his m
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of April 5, 1923 reports the death of Isham Keith Briggs, former sheriff and chief land assessor of Clarke County, at the home of his son in South Boston. It says that in his later
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of April 19, 1923 reprints from the Winchester Star that Miss Virginia C. Kitchen of White Post died suddenly of heart trouble in the office of Dr. Charles O. Dearmont, and names J.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of April 19, 1923 reports the death of Isaac Myers, a native of Clarke County and a farmer of Jefferson County, and names Mrs. J. H. Myers of Clarke among his surviving sisters-in-l
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of May 17, 1923 reports the death on April 23 of Mrs. George H. Carter at her home in Front Royal, eldest daughter of the late Charles M. Castleman of "North Hill," and names her su
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of May 31, 1923 reports that Thomas Hugh Burwell, of the old Virginia family of that name and one of its best-known members in Clarke County, died on a Thursday evening at his home,
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of May 31, 1923, in the obituary of Thomas Hugh Burwell, names Mrs. E. B. Jacobs of Boyce as one of his two daughters.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of May 31, 1923, in the obituary of Thomas Hugh Burwell, names Mrs. Lewis Meade of "The Vineyard," Clarke County, as one of his two daughters.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of May 31, 1923, in the obituary of Thomas Hugh Burwell, names Miss Mary Willing Burwell of Clarke County as one of his sisters.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923 reports news received at Boyce of the death by drowning of Earnest Hillyard of Washington, son of Mrs. Mary Ann Hillyard, formerly of Boyce, while bathing near Wash
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923, reporting the drowning of Earnest Hillyard, names John W. Hillyard of Boyce among his brothers.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923, reporting the drowning of Earnest Hillyard, names Mrs. Joseph Heflin of near Berryville as one of his two sisters.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of July 5, 1923 reports that Dr. Lawson B. Moore, son of the late Judge and Mrs. S. J. C. Moore of Berryville, died at his home at Charlottesville, and names Miss Jane C. Moore of B
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of July 12, 1923 reports the death of John Thomas Huff at his home in Berryville, and names Mrs. Elizabeth Wright of Boyce as one of his two surviving sisters.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of August 2, 1923 reprints from the Spirit of Jefferson the death of John W. Boyd at his home at Rocks Ferry, Jefferson County, on July 20, and names Mrs. Walter Bell among his chil
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of August 2, 1923 reprints from the Spirit of Jefferson the death of John W. Boyd of Rocks Ferry, Jefferson County, and names Mrs. William Licklider among his eighteen children, las
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of August 16, 1923 reports the death of Thomas Poston, aged 49, who spent his boyhood in Clarke, and names Luther Poston of Clarke County as his one brother.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of August 16, 1923 reports that Mrs. Martin Mallory died at the home of her husband's parents in Berryville on August 11, aged 28, and says her husband, a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of August 23, 1923 reports that Mrs. Catherine Anne Spiker Baker, widow of Martin Baker, died at 98 at the home of her daughter, Miss Annie Baker, in Boyce, and names Miss Annie Bak
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of August 23, 1923 reports the death of Mrs. Catherine Anne Spiker Baker, widow of Martin Baker, at 98, and names her son George Baker, a farmer near Boyce, among her four surviving
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of August 30, 1923 reports the death of Charles F. Brown, who came to Clarke from Westmoreland County, and names his two surviving children, Miss Elizabeth Brown of Berryville and A
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of September 6, 1923 reports that Hugh Armel, 23, son of John Armel, a farmer of the White Post neighborhood, was crushed to death the Thursday morning before at the Berryville bask
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of September 6, 1923 names Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory, as the son of John Armel, a prominent farmer of the White Post neighborhood, and says the funeral was
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of September 6, 1923 names Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory, as the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Armel of White Post.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of September 6, 1923 names Thomas Armel of Boyce among the three brothers of Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of September 6, 1923 names Floyd Armel of White Post among the three brothers of Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of September 6, 1923 says Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory, was survived by a wife, who was a Miss Butler, daughter of J. W. Butler of White Post.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of September 20, 1923 reports the death of Mrs. Mary Carter Shreve O'Fallon, widow of Benjamin O'Fallon, at "Red Gate," her home near Millwood, and names Miss Ethel Carter O'Fallon
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of September 20, 1923, in the obituary of Mrs. Mary Carter Shreve O'Fallon of "Red Gate," names Mrs. Jas. H. Nolan of Berryville among her children.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of September 20, 1923, in the obituary of Mrs. Mary Carter Shreve O'Fallon of "Red Gate," names Mrs. Wm. F. Randolph of "Athlone," Millwood, first among her three stepchildren.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of September 27, 1923 reports that Charles Randolph Rosenberry, one-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rosenberry, died at his home near Briggs on Tuesday, September 18.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of September 27, 1923 reports that Charles Randolph Rosenberry, one-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rosenberry, died at his home near Briggs on Tuesday, September 18.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of October 25, 1923 reports that Sam Rust, brother of Robert Rust of Clarke, died at his home in Loudoun County and was buried in Leesburg.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of November 1, 1923 reports the death of J. W. Parker, a well-known blacksmith, at his home on North Church Street, and names George Parker of Boyce first among his five surviving c
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of November 22, 1923 reports that Downey Boyd, fifteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Boyd of Clarke County, died in the Memorial Hospital at Winchester after an operation fo
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of November 22, 1923 reports that Downey Boyd, fifteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Boyd of Clarke County, died after an operation for appendicitis, and that his parents li
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of November 22, 1923, in the obituary of Downey Boyd, names his one brother, Henry Boyd of Clarke County.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of November 22, 1923, in the obituary of Downey Boyd, names Mrs. Viola Orndoff of Clarke County among his three sisters.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of November 22, 1923, in the obituary of Downey Boyd, names Miss Violet Boyd, who lived with her parents, among his three sisters.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 6, 1923 reports that Mrs. Rosa Lee Bayliss, 35, wife of Edgar Bayliss of Berryville and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Johnson, died at the Winchester Memorial Hospi
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 6, 1923 reports that Mrs. Rosa Lee Bayliss, 35, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Johnson of Clarke County, died at the Winchester Memorial Hospital after an operation
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 6, 1923 reports that Mrs. Rosa Lee Bayliss, 35, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Johnson of Clarke County, died at the Winchester Memorial Hospital after an operation
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 6, 1923 reports that William Martin Bayliss, brother of Joseph Bayliss of Berryville, died at his home at Winchester on November 25, and was of an old Frederick County f
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 13, 1923 reports that James F. Smith, father of Mrs. Annie Shiley of White Post, died at his home near Stephens City on December 2, and names her first among his five da
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 20, 1923 reports that Miss Mary Billmyre, daughter of John Billmyre of Gaylord, died at the Home for Incurables in Richmond, aged 43, and that her father survived her an
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of May 10, 1923 reports that Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wright of West Main Street were receiving congratulations on the arrival of a daughter on Sunday, May 6. Its issue of September 13,
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 14, 1923 reports that Miss Mary M. Shepherd became the bride of Earl Ray Smallwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Smallwood of Boyce, at the residence of Rev. Julius D. Russell
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 14, 1923 reports that Miss Mary M. Shepherd became the bride of Earl Ray Smallwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Smallwood of Boyce.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 14, 1923 reports that Miss Mary Magdalene Shepherd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Shepherd of the Morgan's Mill neighborhood, became the bride of Earl Ray Smallwood at Mill
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 14, 1923 reports that Miss Mary Magdalene Shepherd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Shepherd of the Morgan's Mill neighborhood, became the bride of Earl Ray Smallwood.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923, reporting the wedding of Miss Virginia Chrismore of Winchester and Ernest Locke of Berryville at the bride's home on June 21, names B. W. Vorous among those attend
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923, reporting the wedding of Miss Virginia Chrismore and Ernest Locke of Berryville on June 21, names Chas. Galloway among those attending the ceremony from Berryville
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923, reporting the wedding of Miss Virginia Chrismore and Ernest Locke of Berryville on June 21, names Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Wisecarver among those attending the ceremony
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923, reporting the wedding of Miss Virginia Chrismore and Ernest Locke of Berryville on June 21, names Thos. Elsea among those attending the ceremony from Berryville.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of August 23, 1923 reports that Harry J. Symons and Miss Sarah U. Starkey, both of Charles Town, were married at the parsonage of the Methodist Church at Frederick, and that the bri
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of October 18, 1923 reports that Miss Evelyn E. Wisecarver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Wisecarver of Winchester, and Cassell C. Kercheval, son of J. W. Kercheval of Berryville
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of November 15, 1923 reports that Mrs. Maria Peters and Thomas A. Jones were married at the Presbyterian manse in Hagerstown on November 10, and names Bernard Jones of Berryville am
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 6, 1923 reports that Miss Cornelia Ware and John Anker, both of Washington, were married at the home of the bride's cousin at White Plains, New York, on November 27, and
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 13, 1923 reports that Lennis Brown of Milldale and Miss Effie Butler of White Post were married at the Methodist parsonage on Saturday, December 8, by Rev. L. L. Lowance
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 13, 1923 reports that Lennis Brown of Milldale and Miss Effie Butler of White Post were married at the Methodist parsonage on December 8 by Rev. L. L. Lowance. Patricia
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 13, 1923, reporting the marriage of Lennis Brown and Miss Effie Butler of White Post, says the bride is a sister of Mrs. Alma R. Owens of Berryville.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of January 25, 1923, on the death of Maggie Higgins Smith, who served the Gilpin family for over thirty-one years, says she was nurse to the three children, Donald N. Gilpin of Balt
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of February 1, 1923 reports that Capt. and Mrs. Jacob Warden celebrated their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary at "Claremont," north of Berryville, with only the family present: Mr.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 15, 1923, reporting that James Hay Jr., son of former Congressman James Hay and an author, was seriously ill, says his grandfather lived near White Post on the farm then ow
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 22, 1923, reporting the celebration of the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Withers at "Soldier's Retreat," their home in the northern part of Clarke,
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 22, 1923, reporting the celebration of the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Withers at "Soldier's Retreat," their home in the northern part of Clarke,
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 22, 1923, reporting the celebration of the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Withers at "Soldier's Retreat," their home in the northern part of Clarke,
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 22, 1923, reporting the celebration of the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Withers at "Soldier's Retreat," their home in the northern part of Clarke,
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 22, 1923, reporting the celebration of the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Withers at "Soldier's Retreat," their home in the northern part of Clarke,
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 22, 1923, reporting the celebration of the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Withers at "Soldier's Retreat," their home in the northern part of Clarke,
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of March 22, 1923, reporting the celebration of the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Withers at "Soldier's Retreat," their home in the northern part of Clarke,
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of April 12, 1923, in a report on a Mr. Spealman's search for a pistol taken from his family in the Civil War, quotes what Mr. Spealman told Roy Whitaker, son of T. W. Whitaker of B
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of August 16, 1923 reports that the silver cup offered in the Corinthian class at the Berryville Horse Show by Mrs. Carter Mullikin Lockwood, in honor of her father Charles Mullikin
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of November 1, 1923 reports a dance given by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Gilpin of "Kentmere" at "Scaleby Manor," the home of Mr. Gilpin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brooke Gilpin of B
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of November 8, 1923, in Jefferson County news credited to the Farmers Advocate, reports that Mrs. Nannie Levi of Clarke County took up her duties as housekeeper at the Charles Town
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of November 15, 1923 reports among its personal items that J. R. Strode of Boyce was a visitor to Berryville on Monday.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of November 29, 1923 reports among its personal items that Charles A. Moore of Boyce was a visitor to Berryville that week.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 20, 1923 reports that P. C. Randolph of Millwood, one of the county's most successful poultrymen, had been making experiments with Wyandottes in comparison with White Le
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of May 17, 1923 reports that Herman Bell, son of Minnie Bell, would graduate from Johns Hopkins University the next month and visit his people in Berryville before taking up new dut
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of April 26, 1923 reports that Frank M. Galloway of La Plata, Argentina, mechanical engineering superintendent of Armour's packing plant in South America, left on April 16 to visit
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of May 10, 1923 reports that Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wright of West Main Street were receiving the congratulations of their friends on the arrival of a daughter on Sunday, May 6.
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923 reports that congratulations were being extended to Mr. and Mrs. George Reynolds Green of White Post on the arrival of a baby girl on Sunday, and that he told frien
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923 reports that congratulations were being extended to Mr. and Mrs. George Reynolds Green of White Post on the arrival of a baby girl on Sunday, and that mother and ba
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of December 13, 1923 reports that Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Marlowe of Alexandria announced the birth of a son, Charles William, on December 10, and that Mrs. Marlowe is the daughter of Mr
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of September 6, 1923, reporting Hugh Armel's death at the basket factory, says the big logs were unloaded from the freight cars by a huge crane whose engine Taylor Knight operated,
- 1923 The Clarke Courier of February 8, 1923 reported that Edward Jones, 26, who had served in the World War and been gassed at the front, died in Detroit after the grip, followed by tuberculosis in lungs w
1924 — 10 records
- 1924 Between 1924 and 1926 the People's Journal reported three named residents improving houses in Josephine City: Edie Jenkins adding two rooms, Kate Legions improving her residence, and Lizzie Carter hav
- 1924 The Clarke Courier reported on 18 June 1925 that a County League of Negro schools had been organised on 11 July 1924, beginning with $28 to its credit.
- 1924 The People's Journal of October 1, 1924 lists Bristow Baptist Church among the evening programs of an Annual Fair and Rally at Sylvania Baptist Church, Rippon, W. Va., with a Louisville Public School
- 1924 The People's Journal of April 1, 1924 reported that Mr. Stephen L. Green, on Quality Hill, had built another room to his house.
- 1924 The People's Journal of April 1, 1924 carried an item on a Knights of Pythias annual celebration at Zion Baptist Church, accompanied by the Court of Calanthe and visiting lodges, which the reading not
- 1924 The People's Journal reported in October 1924 that the Free Baptist Association had held its 44th session at Berryville, with delegates from "as far South as 250 miles," and in August 1927 carried a n
- 1924 The People's Journal of October 1, 1924 lists the Millwood Glee Club among the evening programs of an Annual Fair and Rally at Sylvania Baptist Church, Rippon, W. Va.
- 1924 The People's Journal of October 1, 1924 carried H. W. Jackson, Lunch and Ice-Cream, Liberty Street, Berryville, among its businesses.
- 1924 The Clarke Courier of December 4, 1924, reporting the death of George William Lightfoot, said he had been for a number of years principal of the local Black public school and that "his name also appea
- 1924 One of Reed's last requests, the Courier reported, was that his Confederate badge of honor and the medal the Sunday school of Marvin Chapel gave him after thirty years as its superintendent be pinned
1925 — 81 records
- 1925-06-04 The Sign of the Motor Car and the Battletown Inn are separate establishments
- 1925 Mrs. Josephine Johnson advertised a lunch room in Josephine City selling ice cream and daily fresh pies and bread, in March 1925 and again in August 1927.
- 1925 A resolution of respect printed in February 1925 for a deceased retired teacher is signed by three people under the heading Retired Teachers, and G. L. D. Harris is one of the three signatories.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier announced on 30 April 1925 that W. D. Gresham, supervisor of Negro education of Virginia, would speak at the Court House in Berryville on 4 May 1925 under the auspices of the Clarke
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 school session, printed July 9, 1925, names Millwood Colored school with J. P. Rier as principal, followed by Louise Bannister and Cla
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 school session, printed July 9, 1925, names White Post Colored school with Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson as its teachers.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 school session, printed July 9, 1925, names Louisville colored school with Emma E. Alexander as its teacher.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 school session, printed July 9, 1925, names Bristol colored school with George W. Carter as its teacher.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 school session, printed July 9, 1925, names D. G. Cooley as principal of Berryville High School and Frances Wolfe as assistant princip
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of January 22, 1925 reported that the Junior League of Berryville High School had voluntarily contributed $10 to the work of Shenandoah Valley, Inc., after hearing D. G. Cooley repo
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 school session, printed July 9, 1925 under a headline announcing a new Boyce principal, names Winter Royston as principal of Boyce Hig
- 1925 The People's Journal of April 1, 1925 named Ivanhoe A.M.E. Church and Taylors' Chapel together, with Rev. W. J. White as pastor, in a notice of Easter events that included an "Easter Tom Thumb Wedding
- 1925 The People's Journal of June 1, 1925 reported that Rev. Mrs. Fry of Washington, D.C., preached for the Missionary Society of Zion Baptist on Sunday, May 24, 1925.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of June 18, 1925 reported that Henry G. Shirley, chairman of the Virginia State Highway Commission, had written to Joseph F. Moore, attorney for the Corporation of Berryville, that
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of February 5, 1925 reported that a new sign, illuminated by electric lights and displayed by Lloyd Williams Post of the American Legion, hung on Church Street at the entrance to th
- 1925 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
- 1925 The People's Journal of January 1, 1925 reported that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taylor's house on North Buckmarsh Street was completed.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of January 22, 1925 quoted the Winchester Star as saying that "ever since the establishment of Winchester Memorial Hospital" the people of Clarke County had taken a deep interest in
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Mr. D. G. Cooley as principal of Berryville High School, and the Courier of September 17, 1925 re
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of January 22, 1925 reports that on the birthday of Robert E. Lee, when members of the Woman's Auxiliary of Lloyd Williams Post No. 41, American Legion, presented a history of the 2
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Frances Wolfe as assistant principal of Berryville High School, and the Courier of September
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Mrs. Louise Kerfoot as one of the two high school teachers at Berryville High School, and the Cou
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Willie M. Snouffer as one of the two high school teachers at Berryville High School, and the
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Ella Holland as the seventh-grade teacher at Berryville High School, and the Courier of Sept
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Mrs. Mary D. Sowers as the sixth-grade teacher at Berryville High School, and the Courier of Sept
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Beatrice Kackley as the fifth-grade teacher at Berryville High School, and the Courier of Se
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Mrs. Wilbur Price as the teacher of the combined fourth and fifth grades at Berryville High Schoo
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Agnes Fenton as the fourth-grade teacher at Berryville High School, and the Courier of Septe
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Mrs. Ella Hughes as the first-grade teacher at Berryville High School, and the Courier of Septemb
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of April 30, 1925, under the headline "Miss Pierce Wed Wednesday," reports that Miss Virginia Pierce, a teacher in Berryville High School and daughter of Mr. F. H. Pierce, chairman
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of February 12, 1925, under the headline "January Honor Roll, Boyce High School," reports that the honor roll of the Boyce Agricultural High School for January had been announced by
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925 under a headline announcing a new Boyce principal, names Mr. Winter Royston as principal of Boyce High S
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Mr. E. W. Roller as the agriculture teacher at Boyce High School.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Ruth Royston as one of the two high school teachers at Boyce High School.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Bettie Teel Miller as one of the two high school teachers at Boyce High School.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Katharine Jones as the home economics teacher at Boyce High School.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Grace Johnston as the seventh-grade teacher at Boyce High School.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Audrey Fritts as the teacher of the fifth and sixth grades at Boyce High School.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Ruth Berlin as the teacher of the third and fourth grades at Boyce High School.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Mary Thompson as the teacher of the first and second grades at Boyce High School.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of October 8, 1925 reports that a teachers' institute for Clarke and Frederick counties met at Berryville in the auditorium of the high school, with Prof. D. G. Cooley, president of
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of October 15, 1925, reporting that the local arrangements at each place would be under the direction of the principal of each school there, printed a schedule of moving pictures on
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, says the appointments were announced by Dr. C. O. Dearmont, chairman of the School Board, as listed by
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of February 26, 1925 printed a statement telephoned by Mr. Leslie D. Kline, superintendent of schools for the division of Clarke and Frederick Counties, saying that he had learned f
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of January 22, 1925 announced a mass meeting at the Court House in Berryville on Friday night, January 30, in the interest of the Clarke County Training School, at which Supervisor
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of May 7, 1925, under a headline saying that the county's Black residents wanted a school, reports that between three and four hundred of them met at the Court House on a Monday nig
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of March 19, 1925, under the headline "Many Present at Presentation," names Mr. Holmes Hardesty, of the board, after Dr. C. O. Dearmont, of the County school board, among those on t
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names J. P. Rier as principal of the Millwood colored school, and the Courier of October 15, 1925, repo
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Clarissa Layton as a teacher at the Millwood colored school, after its principal, J. P. Rier, and
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Matilda Herbert, with Alma Layton, as a teacher at the Boyce colored school.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names George W. Carter as the teacher of the Bristol colored school.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Mrs. C. Agnes Miller as the teacher of the Providence Chapel school, and the Courier of October 1
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Edna Grim as the teacher of the Bethel school.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Eunice Carper as the teacher of the Kinderhook school.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Gladys Jenkins as one of the two teachers of the Millwood school, which the list gives apart
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Gladys Rowland, with Miss Mary Lee Meade, as a teacher at the Riverside school.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Mary Lee Meade, with Miss Gladys Rowland, as a teacher at the Riverside school.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Ida Payne as the teacher of the Marvin Chapel school.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Lola Jenkins as the teacher of the Oak Grove school.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Nellie Mae Evans as the teacher of the Hawthorne school.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Mrs. Walter Foley as the teacher of the Glendale school.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Mrs. C. C. Elsea as the teacher of the Pine Grove school.
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of April 2, 1925 reports wedding licenses issued the week before by the County Clerk, Mr. Eugene Glover, and its issue of January 8, 1925 prints a chancery notice from the Clerk's O
- 1925 A chancery notice from the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Clarke County, printed in the Clarke Courier of January 8, 1925 in a suit to construe the will of Daniel Carter, names among the parti
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of October 15, 1925 prints a notice headed "Sheriff's Sale," signed W. W. Smallwood, Sheriff of Clarke County, offering a Ford automobile at public auction at the Boyce Garage on Oc
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of January 22, 1925, under the headline "Treasurer Gives Dog Tax Figures," reports that County Treasurer W. A. Bradford settled the dog license account for 1924 with the Board of Su
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of December 17, 1925 names Hon. W. A. Bradford, Treasurer of Clarke County, among those who enjoyed a three-act comedy shown at the Parish Hall, Boyce, by friends and members of the
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of November 5, 1925 prints a notice, signed for the Local Board of Equalization of Assessments by C. T. Hardesty, Chairman, that the board would meet at the office of the Commission
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of September 10, 1925 prints a notice, signed Dan T. Shepherd, Game Warden, that strayed horses found on the Winchester-Berryville Pike near the Opequon would be sold at noon in fro
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of February 5, 1925 reports that Robert B. Crawford, former county agent of Clarke and Warren, had accepted a similar position in Prince Edward County, to begin about February 15, a
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of October 8, 1925 reprints from the Harrisonburg News-Record a report that Capt. John H. Enders, funeral director of Berryville and chief of the Berryville Fire Company, attending
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of February 5, 1925 reports that Miss Rose MacDonald, judge of the juvenile and domestic relations court of Clarke County, said eleven cases of violation of the compulsory school at
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of July 9, 1925 announces a meeting of the Woman's Democratic Club of Clarke County that afternoon at the home of its chairman, Miss Rose MacDonald, at whose call the members would
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of February 5, 1925 reports that a decision of Magistrate John T. Crow, in a suit over repairs to an automobile after an accident, was appealed to the County Court, where a jury ann
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of February 5, 1925 reports that Judge Frank B. Whiting pointed out that it was unlawful to sell any kind of drinks without a permit from the Circuit Court when a complaint was made
- 1925 An article in the Clarke Courier of September 17, 1925 on $55,000 in bonds that the town council favored says that a copy of the order entered by the Hon F. B. Whiting, Judge of the Circuit Court of C
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of June 4, 1925 reports a meeting of the Clarke County Democratic Executive Committee at the office of its chairman, Hon. W. T. Lewis, and prints the committee's resolution, signed
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of April 2, 1925 reports a mass meeting headed by Mr. Joseph Denny, of White Post, member of the County Democratic Committee, at which Hon. W. T. Lewis, chairman of the Democratic C
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of August 27, 1925 reports that Mr. Denny, a member of the Democratic Executive Committee, presided on Saturday at the convention at the Court House in the absence of the chairman,
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of April 11, 1929 reported that the partnership of Sprint and Petely, apple exporters, formed in 1925 by Ashby Sprint and George Peteley, had been formally dissolved, and that Mr. S
- 1925 The Clarke Courier of November 12, 1925 reported that the parade postponed from the Fall Festival was held on the night of Armistice Day, led by former Post Commander J. F. Spates of the American Legi
1926 — 4 records
- 1926 Graham Blandy's will leaves 712 acres to the University of Virginia as the Blandy Experimental Farm
- 1926 The People's Journal of July 1, 1926 printed a notice from the Cemetery Board of Milton Valley Cemetery saying that under a law in effect since 1922 every lot holder was taxed $1.00 a year, signed by
- 1926 The People's Journal of July 1, 1926 carried a Berryville item reporting that the Frosty Feet Redsocks had defeated the Morgan Grove team.
- 1926 The People's Journal of July 1, 1926 printed an appeal headed "Cemetery Walk," asking help for a "very much needed Walk in the Cemetery" and announcing an entertainment at Fishermen Hall, Berryville,
1927 — 4 records
- 1927 Blandy's first full season costs $8,000 to run against a $4,000 apple crop
- 1927 The People's Journal announced a Clarke County Fall Meet at Boyce for 16 September 1927, a basket picnic with field sports and a baseball contest, held under the auspices of a body it names the Clarke
- 1927 A notice in the Clarke Courier of December 8, 1927 advertised that, by an order in the matter of Charles Whirley in bankruptcy, horses and colts, a mule colt, hogs and pigs, wagons, binders, harness,
- 1927 The Clarke Courier of May 19, 1927 described the Confederate memorial services at Green Hill Cemetery as "held the fourth Saturday in May each year," set them for 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 28, put the a
1928 — 2 records
- 1928 The Clarke Courier of July 26, 1928 reported that Ashby Sprint, of Winchester, and Harry C. Warden, of Clarke County, had concluded negotiations for the property of Logan Shutt near Kabletown, Jeffers
- 1928 The Clarke Courier of May 10, 1928 reported that the county school board's request for the right to borrow for a colored industrial school in Josephine City had been continued to the supervisors' next
1929 — 3 records
- 1929 Archibald Cummins opens the Hawthorne Library in the building with his own books
- 1929 The Clarke Courier of July 4, 1929 reprinted a Winchester Star report that the first car of summer apples shipped from the section for export, Early Transparents handled by J. Ashby Sprint, Winchester
- 1929 The John F. Slater Fund's Proceedings and Reports for the year ending September 30, 1930 prints a "List of 384 Schools 1929-30," the county training schools on its roll, state by state, in which the f
1930 — 35 records
- 1930 The original Josephine City school is moved and becomes a home economics building
- 1930 In the Census Bureau's 1930 Table 20, the Clarke County entries in the ALL GAINFUL WORKERS block, row 'All industries,' are 2,155 Male and 363 Fe-male.
- 1930 In the same Table 20 field, the row labeled 'Agriculture' gives Clarke County 1,323 Male and 31 Fe-male gainful workers.
- 1930 In the same Table 20 field, the row labeled 'Other domestic and personal service' gives Clarke County 53 Male and 180 Fe-male gainful workers.
- 1930 The 2015 Josephine City Historic District nomination records, among the district's contributing resources, the 1930 former Clarke County Training School, Virginia Department of Historic Resources numb
- 1930 The 2004 multiple property documentation form for Rosenwald Schools in Virginia lists, in its statewide table of schools sorted by date of construction, a Berryville School in Clarke County under the
- 1930 The Clarke Courier of September 11, 1930 reported that the officers of the Berkeley Springs Ice and Cold Storage Company, formerly the Morgan County Cold Storage Company, of Berkeley Springs, W. Va.,
- 1930 The Clarke Courier of August 14, 1930 reported that Berryville's water supply had been made more secure the Sunday before by another pump bringing water into the main from a spring on Dr. Page Lee's p
- 1930 The Clarke Courier of January 8, 1931 printed a letter of December 30, 1930 in which Ralph N. Dorsey, as chairman of the county's Drought Relief Committee, wrote to the Secretary of Agriculture that o
- 1930 The Clarke Courier of June 26, 1930 reported that officials from the Washington headquarters of the A. & P. had leased the Berryville Cash Store building from its proprietor, Roy E. Potts, the week be
- 1930 The Clarke Courier of September 25, 1930 announced that the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company had sent invitations to practically every home in Berryville and vicinity for a preview of its new st
- 1930 The Clarke Courier of April 17, 1930 reported that the contract for the erection of the colored school building had been awarded to Kelley and Kelley, contractors of Bluemont, Va., at $17,350.00, less
- 1930 The same report of April 17, 1930 said the colored people were holding two digging bees that week, on Wednesday and Friday; that they had gathered on Wednesday in large numbers to make good on "Promis
- 1930 The Clarke Courier of May 15, 1930 reported that the digging of the foundation had been completed, and under a photograph captioned as Superintendent A. F. Robertson breaking the ground on April 17 it
- 1930 In the same contribution E. T. Johnson wrote that "we have already pledged ourselves to raise $500 annually"; that on June 6 the Odd Fellows would lay the cornerstone of what was planned as "an imposi
- 1930 The Clarke Courier of June 5, 1930 reported an announcement by E. T. Johnston, principal of the Clarke County Training School, that the cornerstone of the new school building then being erected in Jos
- 1930 The Clarke Courier of June 12, 1930 printed E. T. Johnson's account of the cornerstone day. It rained. The parade started ahead of time, led by the Charles Town band and the Odd Fellows of Millwood, w
- 1930 The same account says the proceeds from the pageant passed the $500 mark; that just $100 more was needed before the dedication, which would be early in September, since the agriculture hall was still
- 1930 The League's 1939 appeal for its annual $500 bond allotment, paid on or about the first of June, matches in amount and season the $500 a year the patrons pledged in 1930 toward the building and the Ju
- 1930 A Julius Rosenwald Fund card, no. 3876, for a "Berryville School" in Clarke County, Va., records five acres of land and a six-teacher type building, built under the 1930-31 budget on application no. 1
- 1930 A notice in the Clarke Courier of August 14, 1930, contributed by E. T. Johnson, "president of the Colored School Improvement League," said that Friday, September 5 had been chosen for the dedication
- 1930 The same notice recalled that "some nearly eight years ago" Prof. T. C. Walker had come to the League's First Parade Pageant and Field Meet at the Berryville Fair Grounds and "stressed the help that M
- 1930 A notice signed by E. T. Johnson in the Clarke Courier of September 4, 1930, the day before the dedication, said the white citizens had helped in many ways and that special seats were reserved "for al
- 1930 A contributed report in the Clarke Courier of September 11, 1930 said that on the morning of April 17 the principal, E. T. Johnson, some of the school boys, some of the patrons and Superintendent A. F
- 1930 The same report said that a few days before the dedication the patrons were informed that the county did not furnish chairs for the auditorium, took the job on themselves, and faced a debt of $680 wit
- 1930 The same report said that the first speaker, Prof. W. D. Graham (so printed), Supervisor of Negro Education, was introduced after the Rev. Mr. Butsler, pastor of a Methodist church, had given the invo
- 1930 Under the heading "The Day Goes Over Big," the same report said that in the afternoon a community group, mostly teachers, sang folklore selections including "The Blind Man Stood on the Road and Cried"
- 1930 The same report thanked the white public and the many churches and friends for helping to realize "our eight-year dream," and said that the cornerstone laying on June 6, amid an array of Odd Fellow re
- 1930 The same report said it suspected that when school opened "on the 12th" there would hardly be room to hold the entrants, and closed: "The pile of rock lies there uncrushed; the drive-in must be rocked
- 1930 The Clarke Courier of September 11, 1930 reported that Mrs. A. Moore, Jr., was confined to her bed as a result of injuries received when she slipped and fell from the platform at the dedication exerci
- 1930 The Clarke Courier of September 18, 1930, reporting the opening enrollments of the county's schools, said the enrollment of colored youths in all schools of the county totaled 350.
- 1930 The Clarke Courier of November 13, 1930 announced that on the next night, Friday, "In India," an operetta by fifty pupils of the Sumner High School for the colored of Martinsburg, would be presented i
- 1930 In the Courier items read for this account, from September 1930 to May 1944, the League's building debt or bond is described as still to be met or paid toward; none of them reports that it was paid of
- 1930 The League's August 1930 notice ties Rosenwald help, offered on condition of a like sum raised locally, to the new building, and the principal's program named T. C. Walker as Rosenwald Agent at its de
- 1930 The Clarke Courier of November 13, 1930 reported that on Armistice Day, at the request of the Lloyd Williams Post, every bell in town was rung for five minutes just before eleven o'clock, business sto
1931 — 12 records
- 1931-06-11 A children's tonsil and adenoid clinic is announced for the Hawthorne Building
- 1931 The Clarke Courier's report of November 19, 1931 on the county's apple harvest said that, in addition to three larger plants, Petley and Cather, of Winchester, operated a packing plant at White Post,
- 1931 The same issue printed a reply of January 2, 1931 from C. W. Warburton, secretary of the Federal Drought Relief Committee, saying that the department did not ask landlords to sign away their right to
- 1931 The Clarke Courier of May 7, 1931 reported that the Berryville basket factory had opened on the Monday of that week with about 50 people, that it was making baskets for spinach, other greens and garde
- 1931 The same report describes how the plant worked: a crane lowered the gum logs into steam vats to loosen the bark; each peeled log turned against a knife that pared it into a sheet; a conveyor carried t
- 1931 The Clarke Courier of May 28, 1931 reported that the Lloyd Williams Post of the American Legion, with its Woman's Auxiliary, planned a Memorial Day service at Green Hill Cemetery on the Friday afterno
- 1931 The Clarke Courier of January 15, 1931 reported that the total per cent attendance in the colored schools of the county for December was 93.8 per cent, and gave the Clarke County Training School 95.4
- 1931 The Clarke Courier of June 4, 1931 reported that commencement exercises of the Clarke County Training and Elementary Schools were held at the Training School Auditorium on Monday night, June 1st, with
- 1931 A paragraph in the Clarke Courier of April 30, 1931 urged readers to boost the Berryville Training School pageant of May 15th, gave the school's supporters credit for the modern building and equipment
- 1931 An announcement in the Clarke Courier of April 23, 1931 said the Berryville Training School's seventh annual pageant would be held on the school grounds on Friday, May 15, 1931; that the six-teacher b
- 1931 An announcement in the Clarke Courier of October 8, 1931, headed as an annual fall event for the benefit of the Training School Building Debt Fund and signed by E. T. Johnson, President, and Alma Layt
- 1931 The Clarke Courier of June 11, 1931 reported that the School Board had named the teachers for the 1931-'32 session: the colored schools of the county had thirteen teachers, six of whom composed the fa
1932 — 7 records
- 1932 The Clarke Courier of January 7, 1932 reprinted a Winchester Star report, datelined Charles Town, W. Va., December 24, that a receiver had been asked for Blue Ridge Orchards, Incorporated, by four sto
- 1932 The Clarke Courier's report of November 24, 1932 on the apple harvest again named Petley and Cather's packing house at White Post and, separately, said that "the Sprint packing house packed a large qu
- 1932 The Clarke Courier of September 15, 1932 reported apples being graded and packed at Moore and Dorsey's new packing plant while carpenters were still putting siding and roofing on the building, with ab
- 1932 The Clarke Courier of November 24, 1932 reported that nearly 100,000 barrels of apples, mostly grade U. S. No. 1, had been packed during the season at the three packing plants in and near Berryville,
- 1932 The Clarke Courier of May 12, 1932 printed the teachers named for the 1932-33 session. Among the schools for Black children it listed the Clarke County Training School at Berryville, with E. T. Johnso
- 1932 The Clarke Courier of February 4, 1932 reported that Roy E. Potts had accepted an offer from the A. & P. Tea Company to lease his store building for ten years, and that he had been made manager of the
- 1932 The Clarke Courier of October 27, 1932 announced that the Woman's Auxiliary of the Lloyd Williams Post No. 41, American Legion, would present a flag to the Elementary School on Armistice Day, November
1933 — 3 records
- 1933 A trustees' notice in the Clarke Courier of August 31, 1933 advertised for sale on September 30, 1933, under a trust deed dated May 2, 1931, an apple packing house 110 feet by 50 at White Post Station
- 1933 The Clarke Courier of September 21, 1933 reported more than 5,000 acres of orchards in the county on 315 farms, with more than 200,000 trees, and said aphis and a gale three weeks earlier had cut the
- 1933 The Clarke Courier of May 18, 1933 printed the teachers named for the 1933-34 session, again listing the Clarke County Training School at Berryville and colored schools at Louisville, Millwood, Boyce,
1934 — 6 records
- 1934-04-12 The Little Shop advertises the Hawthorne Building as its headquarters
- 1934 The Clarke Courier of September 13, 1934 printed teacher appointments that, under the list's heading for the colored schools, named E. T. Johnson as principal of the Clarke County Training School, tea
- 1934 The Clarke Courier of October 11, 1934 announced an October 15 meeting of the Colored School Improvement League of Clarke County and reported that, with tuition eliminated, the Training School's enrol
- 1934 The Clarke Courier of April 12, 1934 reported that the Berryville Basket Factory had resumed operations the Monday before with 35 to 40 people after standing idle since the fall, that how long it woul
- 1934 The Clarke Courier of May 31, 1934 reported Memorial Day exercises at Milton Valley Cemetery, which it placed in Josephine City, similar to those at Green Hill: they opened with "The Star-Spangled Ban
- 1934 The Clarke Courier of April 26, 1934 reported that E. T. Johnson, principal, had announced the Clarke County Training School's annual pageant for May 25 on the school grounds, and said the pageant was
1935 — 10 records
- 1935 Orchards around the Quarters give way to the arboretum
- 1935-11-21 The Hawthorne Library turns five with 2,000 books and thirteen thousand loans
- 1935 The Clarke Courier's list of land delinquent for 1933 taxes, in its issue of November 7, 1935, carried "Sprint, Mamie, Bellview, 300 acres .... $98.75."
- 1935 Under the headline "Local Laborers Find Prosperity," the Clarke Courier of September 26, 1935 reported that more than 300 men and women had found work in the orchards and packing houses of Senator Har
- 1935 The Clarke Courier of May 23, 1935 printed an acknowledgement sent in by Estelle Mitchell, teacher of the Stone Bridge School, in which the school and community thanked the county T. B. unit for funds
- 1935 The Clarke Courier of September 5, 1935 reported that the county school board had appointed fifty-three teachers for the opening of school on September 13, and listed for the colored schools the Clark
- 1935 The same report said the superintendent of schools, A. F. Robertson, had stated that every child must be vaccinated by the time of entering school and that the compulsory education law would be strict
- 1935 The Clarke Courier of September 26, 1935 reported that the Berryville Basket Company had a weekly payroll of between 60 and 70 men and women, and that it and the Berryville Silk Mill were due to opera
- 1935 The Clarke Courier of February 7, 1935 reported that the funeral of Lewis Myers was conducted at St. Luke's Baptist Church by the Rev. E. T. Johnson, and that his interment in Milton Valley Cemetery w
- 1935 The Clarke Courier of September 12, 1935 announced a meeting of the Clarke County Improvement League of the Clarke County Training School for Monday night, September 16, and said monthly meetings were
1936 — 14 records
- 1936 An advertisement in the Clarke Courier of October 1, 1936 announced that special commissioners, under a decree entered on July 15, 1936 in the chancery cause of Lucy Sprint Crim vs. J. Ashby Sprint et
- 1936 The Clarke Courier of December 3, 1936 reported that the 300-acre tract, "said to be one of the finest farms in the county," had been offered for sale "last Tuesday" but continued "because the bid of
- 1936 The Clarke Courier of July 16, 1936 reported that Clarke County's centennial celebration had opened on July 8 at the Berryville Horse Show grounds with a pageant of the county's past, and put the crow
- 1936 The same report said that Senator Harry F. Byrd introduced Senator Carter Glass, and that Glass crowned the celebration's queen at coronation exercises before the pageant opened; the article's deck le
- 1936 The same report listed among the pageant's scenes one portraying Shawnee life and customs.
- 1936 The article's deck recorded tributes paid to Robert E. Lee by two speakers, one of them a congressman.
- 1936 The Clarke Courier of July 16, 1936 printed an unofficial report that the Clarke County Centennial Celebration had grossed approximately $2,000, and said that some receipts were still outstanding and
- 1936 The same item put stock subscriptions at about $1,300, reported separately from the gross receipts, and said stockholders would probably receive some percentage on their investment.
- 1936 The Clarke Courier of April 16, 1936 announced that members of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Camp George Washington would give a program at the Clarke County Training School on Sunday afternoon
- 1936 The Clarke Courier of June 18, 1936 announced the annual meeting of the School Improvement League of the Clarke County Training School for Monday night, June 22, in the school auditorium, where the an
- 1936 The Clarke Courier of May 7, 1936 reported that the Clarke County Training School's judging team had come home with a silver loving cup for first place in the judging contests at the annual spring ral
- 1936 The Clarke Courier of September 10, 1936 reported that the Clarke County Training School's judging team, Robert C. Williams, Harry C. Kelly and Edward L. Lewis, under the direction of M. J. Edwards an
- 1936 The Clarke Courier of May 7, 1936 announced a pageant, "The Negro in Clarke County, 100 Years," to be presented by the Clarke County Training School on the school grounds on May 21 in connection with
- 1936 The Clarke Courier of May 21, 1936 announced the Clarke County Training School's commencement for Tuesday, May 26, with the address to the graduates by Prof. Arthur D. Wright, printed as president of
1937 — 9 records
- 1937 The Clarke Courier of October 28, 1937 reports that the children of the Walnut Street neighborhood in Berryville masqueraded in costumes and false faces on a Tuesday night ahead of Hallowe'en, and nam
- 1937 The Clarke Courier of October 28, 1937 reports that the children of the Walnut Street neighborhood in Berryville masqueraded in costumes and false faces on a Tuesday night ahead of Hallowe'en, and nam
- 1937 The Clarke Courier of October 28, 1937 reports that the children of the Walnut Street neighborhood in Berryville masqueraded in costumes and false faces on a Tuesday night ahead of Hallowe'en, and nam
- 1937 The Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project's Sugar Hill page says later newspaper accounts mentioned a Stone Bridge Colored School in 1937.
- 1937 A notice in the Clarke Courier of February 18, 1937, signed by J. Ashby Sprint and Thomas H. Sprint as administrators of the estate of "the late Mrs. Mamie R. Sprint," advertised cows and heifers, she
- 1937 The Clarke Courier of April 29, 1937 reported the principal's statement that the County Improvement League had successfully operated a school bus, aided largely by private donations, money raised from
- 1937 The Clarke Courier of February 11, 1937 reported that the agricultural basketball team of the Clarke County Training School had won a hard-fought game from the Harrisonburg team on February 3 by a sco
- 1937 The Clarke Courier of April 29, 1937 reported E. T. Johnson's announcement that the Clarke County Training School's annual field and track events would be held on May 27 at the school grounds at Josep
- 1937 The Clarke Courier of June 10, 1937 reported that the Clarke County Training School had graduated nine students at exercises on Tuesday night in the school, after a baccalaureate sermon by the Rev. F.
1938 — 7 records
- 1938 The Clarke Courier of July 14, 1938 reported that Raymond A. Grubbs, manager of the Berryville basket factory, had announced its sale to Herbert M. Smalley of Bridgeton, New Jersey, and that the price
- 1938 The same report says Smalley had been in the package business for 21 years, the last eight as treasurer of the Jersey Package Company of Bridgeton, having started as a boy working in the plants, and t
- 1938 The same report says the company was first formed in 1921 by Harry C. Warden, H. H. Burks, P. J. Kimmell, Sam S. Thomas, E. G. Coiner and C. H. Phillips; that lately the plant had operated year after
- 1938 The Clarke Courier of April 7, 1938, reporting a proposed county budget on which taxpayers would be heard by the Board of Supervisors on April 11, said it raised the school levy by five cents, from 75
- 1938 The Clarke Courier of September 8, 1938 printed the county's school bus routes, among them Bus No. 3 (Colored), with Thomas Jackson as driver. Its Route 3-A left the railroad crossing near Stone Bridg
- 1938 The Clarke Courier of February 17, 1938 announced that the home economics department of the Clarke County Training School would sponsor an art exhibit in the school auditorium on Sunday afternoon, Feb
- 1938 The Clarke Courier of December 15, 1938 reported that the basketball teams of the Clarke County Training School had won both opening games with Leesburg High School on the Friday night before, the gir
1939 — 4 records
- 1939-02-16 A bazaar in the library and the Tappan apartments
- 1939 A notice in the Clarke Courier of February 16, 1939, signed "JAS. C. ROYSTON" and headed "Discontinuing Farming," advertised a public auction on February 27, 1939 of his personal property on "The Spri
- 1939 The Clarke Courier of May 11, 1939 printed a note to the Training School's bond subscribers, signed by E. T. Johnson as president of the League. It said that in the previous school year nearly every B
- 1939 The Clarke Courier of May 4, 1939 reported that the Athletic Association of the Clarke County Training School had just closed a successful indoor basketball tournament; that the school had a gymnasium
1940 — 2 records
- 1940 The Clarke Courier of June 13, 1940 reported that twelve seniors of the Clarke County Training School had graduated the week before. The program included addresses by Fannie J. Paige on what we try to
- 1940 The Clarke Courier of August 15, 1940 reported that the county School Board had authorized the continuance of lunch projects at several schools, among them the Clarke County Training School, and two n
1941 — 8 records
- 1941 The Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project's Roots Run Deep tour says the White Post school built on Blandy's 1909 offer was abandoned as a school in 1941, sold as surplus in 1952, and is now a priv
- 1941 The Clarke Courier of June 12, 1941 reported that the formation of a Clarke county station of the Virginia Aircraft Warning Service was being carried out by H. B. Harris, commander of the Lloyd Willia
- 1941 The same report outlines the plan: a state-wide system of unpaid volunteers to watch for enemy aircraft; for each local post, a chief observer living within the area who would name about 15 observers,
- 1941 The Clarke Courier of July 22, 1943 said the Aircraft Warning Service in Clarke county had first been inaugurated with about nine posts set at strategic points in the county about two years before, an
- 1941 The Clarke Courier of January 1, 1942 reported that a check-up on the Monday showed approximately 275 persons had registered at the Court House for defense work, for 347 various functions, and that th
- 1941 The Clarke Courier of April 3, 1941 reported, from an Associated Press dispatch, that Dr. W. T. B. Williams, vice-president of Tuskegee Institute, had died at his home there on March 26, and that he w
- 1941 The Clarke Courier of November 13, 1941 announced that the new shop building of the Clarke County Training School would be dedicated on Sunday, November 16, and that the Rev. E. T. Johnson, principal,
- 1941 In an editorial headed "Armistice Day, 1941," the Clarke Courier of November 6, 1941 wrote that the armistice ended the fighting in the first World War, "but the peace laid the foundations for No. 2."
1942 — 16 records
- 1942 John U. Miller Jr. sells watermelons at Route 7 and Chilly Hollow Road at age six
- 1942 The "Courier Chatter" column of the Clarke Courier of August 6, 1942 reported that Mrs. Eddy Joyce and Mrs. Gordon Levi, spotting for the first time at the post on Rosemont Circle on the Monday mornin
- 1942 The same column reported that approximately 250 applications for supplementary gasoline ration coupons had been handled by the local board through Saturday.
- 1942 The Clarke Courier of January 22, 1942 reported that at its January 19 meeting the tire rationing board granted a tire each to two mail carriers, and a tube to one of them; granted an ice and cold sto
- 1942 The Clarke Courier of April 30, 1942 reported that eliminating all air warning posts in the county and centralizing them at three points was discussed on the Monday night in Berryville at a meeting ca
- 1942 The Clarke Courier of May 7, 1942, the day sugar registration was to end at the schools, reported that 3,726 persons in Clarke county had registered for sugar rationing books through Tuesday, accordin
- 1942 The Clarke Courier of May 14, 1942 reported that hundreds of motorists had come to the school houses that week to register for gasoline rationing cards, where they were questioned by school teachers;
- 1942 The Clarke Courier of May 21, 1942 reported that in the first weekend under gasoline rationing the county's motorists kept up their custom of a Sunday afternoon drive and the swollen Shenandoah River
- 1942 The Clarke Courier of May 28, 1942 reported that, on account of gasoline rationing and the conservation of rubber, there would be no baccalaureate sermon that year at the W. T. B. Williams Training Sc
- 1942 A notice in the Clarke Courier of September 24, 1942, signed M. W. Jones, Jr., Berryville, said that, being unable to get tires for his truck to deliver milk, he would be compelled to discontinue deli
- 1942 The Clarke Courier of September 24, 1942 reported that the Berryville Aircraft Warning Post planned to change from four-hour to three-hour watches beginning October 1, which would require 28 more obse
- 1942 The Clarke Courier of September 3, 1942 reported that the erection of a spotters' post in White Post was voted on the Thursday night of the previous week at a meeting called by A. Mackay Smith, chief
- 1942 The Clarke Courier of December 3, 1942 reported that the spotter post at Boyce was dedicated on the Sunday by George H. Burwell in the Parish House as "the material expression of a watchful public spi
- 1942 The Clarke Courier of December 3, 1942 reported that of Clarke County's monthly war bond quota of $26,000, $6,000 or more was credited to the Junior Woman's Club of Clarke County in the last week of t
- 1942 In the account printed in the Clarke Courier of December 20, 1945, Ralph Pope said that after his capture he volunteered to drive a bus hauling Japanese troops for three months, then drove a truck hau
- 1942 The Clarke Courier of September 10, 1942 reported that Mrs. Mervin Shackleford had word from her youngest son, Pfc. Fred H. Shackleford, that he was out of the hospital, where he had been since Februa
1943 — 13 records
- 1943 The Clarke Courier of July 22, 1943 reported that the three observation posts in Clarke county had been closed at midnight the night before on an order from the War Department, which announced that in
- 1943 The Library of Virginia's blog post "Keep Your Eyes Aloft" (November 6, 2013), by its local records archivist Callie Lou Freed, describes the Greene County (Va.) Ground Observer Corps Post 128-G log b
- 1943 In an unsigned editorial headed "Spotting Airplanes," the Clarke Courier of January 21, 1943 said that, in a population of over 1,200 people, the Air Warning Service was having trouble finding volunte
- 1943 The Clarke Courier of February 4, 1943 announced a bingo and fun festival at the Boyce High School on Friday night, February 5, for the benefit of the spotter post in Boyce. The money raised was to be
- 1943 The Clarke Courier of March 25, 1943 reported that the Aircraft Warning Service had begun classes that week to train spotters to identify the various types of planes that might be seen in the area, fo
- 1943 The same report of March 25, 1943 said Mr. Lane announced that the local post needed an awning for the summer and that arrangements had been made to buy one at a cost of approximately $30; he asked fo
- 1943 The Clarke Courier of May 13, 1943 announced a rummage sale in the old postoffice building in Berryville on Saturday, May 29, for the benefit of the Observation Post, located on Rosemont Circle. Peopl
- 1943 The Clarke Courier of June 3, 1943 reported, in its "Berryville" column, that the rummage sale held on Saturday for the benefit of the plane spotting post in Berryville resulted in a profit of over $7
- 1943 In an unsigned editorial headed "Doing All You Can, Brother?", the Clarke Courier of June 10, 1943 said the air spotter post and the Red Cross room were both falling behind in their work. It called it
- 1943 Among its local notes, the "Dear Dan" column in the Clarke Courier of October 14, 1943 said that someone had just about recuperated from a touch of the flu, that the writer had had a card from Rev. Ed
- 1943 The Clarke Courier of February 4, 1943 reported that Ralph Pope, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pope of Berryville, missing since May 7, 1942, "is safe and alright according to the way his mother feels abou
- 1943 The Clarke Courier of November 4, 1943 reported, under the heading "Fourth Pope Boy Enlists In Navy," that Carl Herbert Pope, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Pope, Berryville, enlisted in the U.S. Navy "l
- 1943 The Clarke Courier of November 4, 1943 announced that Clarke would have another Blood Donor Clinic on Thursday, November 11, Armistice Day, the fourth visit of the mobile unit to the county, and that
1944 — 14 records
- 1944 The Clarke Courier of July 6, 1944, reporting the death of Thomas Hatcher Sprint, born July 25, 1894 in Clarke County, named his parents as "the former Miss Mamie Humston of Shenandoah county, and Tho
- 1944 A notice in the Clarke Courier of November 9, 1944 offered for sale the air spotter station at Boyce on Friday, November 10, 1944, at 4 p.m.: a building about 12 by 12 feet, containing much good timbe
- 1944 The Clarke Courier of May 25, 1944 announced that the colored schools of Clarke County would stage their usual pageants on Wednesday night, May 31, in the auditorium of the W. T. B. Williams Training
- 1944 The Clarke Courier of April 13, 1944 reported that the Clarke County Agriculture Committee, meeting the week before with officials of the Emergency Farm Labor Committee and others, had begun a study o
- 1944 The county agent's report for 1944, printed in the Clarke Courier of January 18, 1945, states under "Farm Labor" that at an open hearing on Emergency Farm Labor in June the orchardists set 10 cents a
- 1944 The county agent's report for 1944, printed in the Clarke Courier of January 18, 1945, states that the last of August State Road convicts were made available to Clarke County farmers to help harvest f
- 1944 The county agent's report for 1944, printed in the Clarke Courier of January 18, 1945, states that shortly after the convicts started, 103 Kentuckians moved into the Castleman Ferry Camp; that, unable
- 1944 The county agent's report for 1944, printed in the Clarke Courier of January 18, 1945, states that German war prisoners were contracted for by one of the orchardists, who tried them at picking apples
- 1944 The county agent's report for 1944, printed in the Clarke Courier of January 18, 1945, states (page 4, continued on page 11) that before school opened farmers and orchardists pressed for some school c
- 1944 The Clarke Courier of February 3, 1944 reported that Mrs. Fred H. Pope of near Berryville believed her son, Sergt. Ralph W. Pope, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, was all right, as she said on Tuesd
- 1944 The Clarke Courier of December 28, 1944 reported that Staff Sergt. Janey Lee Pope, one of four fighting sons of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pope of near Berryville, was killed in action in Germany on December 1
- 1944 The Clarke Courier of August 31, 1944 reported that the War Department had wired the mother of Pvt. Fred H. Shackleford that he had died on August 10, "presumably in action in France," but that the wi
- 1944 The Clarke Courier of September 7, 1944, under the headline "Pvt. Fred Shackleford Accidently Shot," reported that according to a wire his mother, Mrs. Mervin Shackleford, received on Monday, he "was
- 1944 The Clarke Courier of November 16, 1944 reported that Pvt. Fred Shackleford, "killed accidentally in France on August 10," died of 18 bullet wounds in his chest from a captured German sub-machine gun
1945 — 18 records
- 1945 The Clarke Courier of November 22, 1945 reported the death at 72 of the Rev. Edward Thomas Johnson, pastor of St. Luke's Baptist Church for nearly 25 years; it said he founded the W. B. T. Williams Tr
- 1945 The same Clarke Courier obituary of November 22, 1945 said the Rev. Edward Thomas Johnson died on the Friday afternoon at his home on Liberty Street, seventy-two years old; that after graduating from
- 1945 A letter in the Clarke Courier of December 13, 1945, signed W. A. Bradford, said the paper's notice of the Rev. E. T. Johnson's death had given a complete review of his positions but reached no conclu
- 1945 The Clarke Courier of May 31, 1945 reported that Staff Sergt. Robert Pope, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pope of near Berryville, was "One of the first, if not the first," soldier from Clarke county to be
- 1945 The Clarke Courier of May 3, 1945 reported that Berryville was one of several communities that celebrated a false report of Germany's unconditional surrender, reported on Saturday night by the Associa
- 1945 The "Dear Dan" letter column in the Clarke Courier of May 10, 1945 said that Berryville's celebration of V-E Day was "a tame affair" compared with the one the town's boys and girls gave the false surr
- 1945 The Clarke Courier of August 16, 1945 reported that the news of the war's end was flashed over the radio at seven p.m. Tuesday; that people came out of their homes into the streets of Berryville and s
- 1945 The Clarke Courier of August 16, 1945 reported that Sergt. Ralph Pope, a captive of the Japanese government since the fall of the Philippines, "will be or has already been liberated, it is believed,"
- 1945 The Clarke Courier of August 23, 1945 printed a telegram from National Headquarters received the week before by Mrs. Ralph Dorsey, chairman of the Blood Donor Service of the Clarke County Chapter of t
- 1945 An editor's note in the Clarke Courier of August 23, 1945 said that the letter column would for the time being be written to a different serviceman each week, and that Dan Morrison, to whom the paper
- 1945 The letter column in the Clarke Courier of August 23, 1945, addressed "Dear Ralph Pope," told him the county had not forgotten him and hoped he was on his way home from prison; it said that canned fru
- 1945 The Clarke Courier of October 4, 1945 reported that Sergt. Ralph W. Pope of Berryville, a prisoner of the Japanese since May 7, 1942, had been liberated and was in Manila awaiting transportation home,
- 1945 The Clarke Courier of November 22, 1945 reported that Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pope had with them their son, Sergt. Ralph Pope, a prisoner of the Japanese since 1942 who had recently arrived in this country
- 1945 The Clarke Courier of December 20, 1945 printed the story of 40 months as a prisoner of war of the Japanese told to it the day before by Master Sergt. Ralph E. Pope (as printed), son of Mr. and Mrs. F
- 1945 The continuation of Ralph Pope's account in the Clarke Courier of December 20, 1945 said that guards once beat him for about 30 minutes because they thought his men were not working, knocked him out w
- 1945 The Clarke Courier of December 20, 1945 reported that twenty Clarke County servicemen had been discharged that week, as the draft board announced.
- 1945 The "One Year Ago" column of the Clarke Courier of August 30, 1945 says: "Pvt. Fred Shackleford is killed in action in France."
- 1945 The "One Year Ago" column of the Clarke Courier of September 6, 1945 says: "Pvt. Fred Shackleford is accidentally killed in France while examining a captured German gun."
1946 — 2 records
- 1946 The Clarke Courier of December 20, 1945 said that Ralph Pope had three months of furlough from January 7, a prisoner-of-war leave, after which, he said, he would re-enlist.
- 1946 The Clarke Courier of June 27, 1946 reported a War Department honor list of the dead and missing of World War II, "showing that Clarke county lost 26 men during the war," under the headline "Report Of
1947 — 4 records
- 1947-03-27 The Hawthorne Library is free to read or borrow
- 1947 The Clarke Courier of October 30, 1947 prints a household column by Martha W. Levi recalling that not many years before, the whole town turned out for the annual Hallowe'en parade up Main Street, and
- 1947 The Clarke Courier of October 30, 1947 prints a household column signed by Martha W. Levi, which gives advice for the trick-or-treat season and recalls that not many years before the whole town turned
- 1947 The "Three Years Ago" column of the Clarke Courier of August 28, 1947 says: "Pvt. Fred H. Shackleford dies of wounds in France."
1948 — 1 record
- 1948 The Clarke Courier of October 21, 1948 reported that the body of Pvt. Fred Howard Shackleford would arrive in Berryville the next day, for funeral services from his late home on Sunday afternoon. It s
1949 — 1 record
- 1949 The 2000 Millwood Colored School nomination names the W.B.T. Williams Training School in Berryville in a March 1949 school board bond proposal of $180,000, which was to complete a new elementary schoo
1950 — 1 record
- 1950 The wagon becomes a fruit and vegetable stand supplied by the family's greenhouses
1952 — 1 record
- 1952 The Battletown name moves to 102 W. Main
1954 — 2 records
- 1954 The newly formed Ruritan Club sponsors the county fair for the first time
- 1954 The library's books move to the new high school
1957 — 1 record
- 1957-02 The Bank of Clarke County buys Winston Hall, then known as the Morris building
1959 — 1 record
- 1959 The Soda Shop, the Coffee Club’s first known home, was opened on Main Street in Berryville in 1959 by Vernon and Bunny Racer. Racer, quoted in a 1978 retrospective: "It was started because Berryville
1960 — 1 record
- 1960 The Ruritan Club buys the 30-acre horse-show grounds and renames them the Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds
1962 — 1 record
- 1962 The bank demolishes Winston Hall for expansion and parking
1965 — 14 records
- 1965 The Winchester Evening Star's April 2, 1965 sidebar by Doug O’Connell reported that Philip Cunningham, on seeing two men leave the Boyce branch of the Bank of Clarke County carrying a paper bag, follo
- 1965 Cunningham operated Locke and Co., a store in Millwood, with his brother, and had come to the Boyce branch of the Bank of Clarke County on April 1, 1965 to cash checks, according to the Star's reporti
- 1965 In Cunningham's account to the Star, he crouched behind parked cars and followed the two men toward the Rambler, about forty yards away, where a third man waited at the wheel.
- 1965 The Star's main report said that inside the Boyce branch, bank manager Edith W. Rodgers and teller Frances Hudson faced two men carrying pistols, who each handed over a paper bag and demanded money.
- 1965 The same report said the two men ordered Rodgers and Hudson into a back room and made them close the door when someone began entering through the front, which is why the bank looked empty to Cunningha
- 1965 The Star's main report placed the robbery at about 1 p.m. on April 1, 1965, said the getaway car drove west, and placed the arrests less than half an hour after the robbery.
- 1965 A separate Star profile by Jack Davis reported that Trooper R. L. Bruce, having finished an overnight shift near Middletown and set out for a funeral in Front Royal, turned around toward Boyce on hear
- 1965 Davis reported that Bruce switched on his lights and siren, the car stopped, and with a gun in hand he ordered its three men and one woman out and onto the road, that they offered no resistance, and t
- 1965 The Star's main report said the bank closed so the missing money could be counted, and that the four arrested people were taken to jail in Berryville and charged.
- 1965 The Star reported that at an April 19, 1965 preliminary hearing, all four charged people were held for grand-jury action.
- 1965 The Star reported that Kenneth Lloyd Presgraves, Buford Homer Shupe and James Clarence Powell pleaded guilty on May 10, 1965, and that Mary Matilda Shupe initially pleaded innocent.
- 1965 The Star reported that on July 12, 1965, Judge Elliott D. Marshall sentenced Presgraves to 20 years, Shupe to 15 years and Powell to 10 years in the state penitentiary; the July 13 report was repeated
- 1965 Mary Matilda Shupe changed her plea to guilty on August 10, 1965, then received permission to withdraw that plea and plead innocent again on September 13, 1965; the court set November 9, 1965 for tria
- 1965 Bank president Floyd L. McWilliams told the Star that $11,929 had been taken from the Boyce branch and that all of it was recovered, a figure the Star's later reports repeated; a separate April 8, 196
1966 — 1 record
- 1966 The 2015 Josephine City Historic District nomination says the previously all-Black Johnson-Williams High School, at the southeastern edge of the district, became the integrated Johnson-Williams Middle
1967 — 1 record
- 1967 The earliest located instance of "the coffee club" appearing in print by that name is a November 1967 item describing a crowd at the Soda Shop drawn from both the morning and afternoon shifts, plus vi
1968 — 1 record
- 1968 Bob Buckley, one of the few Coffee Club members the Courier names directly, turns up meeting someone at the Soda Shop in 1968.
1971 — 1 record
- 1971 In 1971, Bob Buckley was still a regular, and was reportedly the only Coffee Club member who used the Town House as a fallback when the Soda Shop was closed, on an occasion when other members did not
1976 — 1 record
- 1976 Farming for profit ends; farming continues by lease
1977 — 3 records
- 1977 Under Fred Harner’s ownership in the late 1970s, the Soda Shop ran a pizza business after hours, operated by Harold Hawkins, who opened for breakfast around seven for "the coffee clubbers" and ran the
- 1977 A fire did about $2,000 in damage to the Soda Shop in April 1977, caused by faulty wiring on a freezer. The shop reopened within the week, as scheduled.
- 1977 During the April 1977 fire, a woman was evacuated from a neighboring building the Courier called "the hotel." This hints at roughly where on Main Street the Soda Shop stood, but the Soda Shop’s own ex
1978 — 2 records
- 1978 The Soda Shop closed in February 1978 "after 19 years at the same location," when it merged with Avalon II under the same owner, Fred Harner.
- 1978 The Soda Shop merged with Avalon II, a restaurant "just three doors down" under the same ownership (Fred Harner), in February 1978, stated reason being to reduce "the double overhead" of running both.
1984 — 1 record
- 1984-02 The Bank of Clarke County holds a retirement dinner at the Ruritan Fairgrounds
1986 — 1 record
- 1986 Blandy Experimental Farm is designated the State Arboretum of Virginia
1987 — 1 record
- 1987 The passenger depot stands vacant
1990 — 1 record
- 1990-07-02 Norfolk Southern demolishes the passenger depot
1991 — 1 record
- 1991 The Clarke County Historical Association's catalog lists a Clarke Courier photograph described as Memorial Day services at Milton Valley Cemetery on May 30, 1991.
1992 — 6 records
- 1992 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
- 1992 Kalbian's 1992 survey says Berryville was established in 1798 on twenty acres of land owned by Benjamin Berry and Sarah Stribling, and that Main Street was the "Great Road" which connected Winchester
- 1992 The alphabetical index to Kalbian's 1992 survey lists nine surveyed resources on Blackburn St., all on the Berryville quadrangle map: six numbered between 14 and 24, and three whose house numbers the
- 1992 Kalbian's 1992 survey names Frogtown among the Clarke County hamlets that earlier surveys had recorded, with Stringtown, Rattlesnake Spring, Webbtown, Stone Bridge, Bethel and Waterloo.
- 1992 Kalbian's 1992 survey records the Frogtown Store, 21-944, as one of three commercial resources it identified for the period from 1914 to 1991, and says that only the Frogtown Store still functioned as
- 1992 Kalbian's 1992 survey lists a "House in Frogtown", 21-400, in its table of schools from past rural surveys.
1998 — 1 record
- 1998-10-10 The Rotary Club of Clarke County holds its Charter Night at the Battletown Inn
2000 — 1 record
- 2000 Blue Ridge Wildlife Center begins, by its own account
2001 — 1 record
- 2001-02 The IRS issues Blue Ridge Wildlife Center's 501(c)(3) exemption
2002 — 1 record
- 2002 The old schoolhouse renovated for the museum
2003 — 1 record
- 2003-07-12 The Josephine School Community Museum opens its first exhibit
2004 — 4 records
- 2004 The Clarke County Historical Association's catalog lists a plat of the graves in Milton Valley Cemetery, dated Fall 2004, kept to accompany Don and Mary Royston's volume on the cemeteries of Clarke Co
- 2004 The Coffee Club had no officers, no dues and, by its members’ own account, no particular reason for starting. J. Fred Jones, one of the group’s original members, told the Clarke Times-Courier in 2004:
- 2004 As of 2004, J. Fred Jones and Eddie Wisecarver were named as surviving original members of the Coffee Club, with Wisecarver described as one who "still joins them once in a while."
- 2004 Guy "Bill" Shackleford, at 91, was called the Coffee Club’s "chairman of the board" in a 2004 front-page photo caption, and was described as the one from whom "the members learn about the history of t
2006 — 4 records
- 2006 The Yorks sell the Hawthorne building to Melinda Kramer, who renovates it
- 2006 John Hudson's 2006 history of the bank states that it was eventually determined the bodies were probably relics of possible soldiers of the Revolutionary War period.
- 2006 The same history states that there was no reference as to the relocation of the remains.
- 2006 In February 2006, with Jane’s Lunch briefly closed for renovation, the Coffee Club met at the Tastee Freez instead, the same fallback pattern the record shows at the Town House thirty-five years earli
2010 — 1 record
- 2010-01 The Fire House Gallery opens at 23 E. Main
2012 — 1 record
- 2012-02-24 Berryville Grille listed at 9 East Main
2013 — 1 record
- 2013 The 2013 National Register nomination for the Chapel Rural Historic District records Locust Grove, 537 Old Winchester Road (DHR 021-0194), as a contributing vernacular dwelling that combines stone and
2014 — 1 record
- 2014 A 2014 Clarke Monthly feature, crediting Hudson's book, states that it was later learned the bones were probably remains of Revolutionary War soldiers, and that nothing further is known as to what hap
2015 — 1 record
- 2015-06-17 The Battletown Inn closes, its door locked and the property for sale
2019 — 1 record
- 2019-09-30 The Fire House Gallery's announced closing date
2024 — 3 records
- 2024 Patients from 40 counties and 172 species come to Blue Ridge Wildlife Center
- 2024-03 A salvaged depot window guard is installed at Hogan's Alley
- 2024-12-17 An eagle arrives with a blood lead level of 49
2025 — 9 records
- 2025 Blue Ridge Wildlife Center takes in 4,005 patients and logs 49,686 hotline calls
- 2025-01 Maria Zimmerman is sworn in as the first woman president of the Enders Fire Company and Rescue Squad
- 2025-02-14 SueCat's Bistro listed at 9 East Main
- 2025-03 About thirty volunteers clean headstones and clear brush at Milton Valley Cemetery
- 2025-03-29 A rehabilitated eagle announced for release at Banshee Reeks
- 2025-04 The Clarke County Education Foundation announces $85,000 in anonymous gifts to the schools
- 2025-06-21 The fourth Juneteenth Celebration is scheduled
- 2025-08-10 The Clarke County Fair is scheduled for August 10–16
- 2025-12 A Blue Ridge resort is proposed
2026 — 2 records
- 2026-04-15 Aztec City listed at 9 East Main
- 2026 The county government's brief history says Clarke County is named for George Rogers Clark, "no “e”," a Virginian who became "the highest-ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier
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Date not establishedEventno date established
Berryville was earlier known as Battletown
The name is supported; its first use is not dated in this pilot.
Evidence C01
✓ DocumentedThat it was soBerryville was known as Battletown.
What the source supports
DHR recognizes Battletown as the earlier settlement name.
Uncertainty
This does not, by itself, explain why that name arose.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Berryville Historic District, 168-0012
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2024-09-16 (last update)
Locator: First historical paragraph
Relevant passageBerryville began as a colonial crossroads settlement known as Battletown.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1798Eventto the year
Berryville is incorporated
A year from the county history, not an invented January 1 date.
Evidence C02
✓ Supported by a sourceThe county history dates Berryville's incorporation to 1798.
What the source supports
A dated anchor in the county's historical summary.
Uncertainty
The original charter has not been inspected in this prototype.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
A Brief County History
Clarke County government
Locator: Berryville paragraph, beginning "Clarke County's seat"
Relevant passageSettled in 1775 and incorporated in 1798, it was originally called Battletown.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: county-history. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1810Eventto the year
The Sarah Stribling House is built
A building date, not proof of the origin tale.
Evidence C17
✓ Supported by a sourceDHR dates the Sarah Stribling house, long associated with the Battletown Inn, to 1810.
What the source supports
The extant house has a date distinct from the settlement's earlier history.
Uncertainty
The house is not identified here as the specific tavern in Gold's origin tale.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Berryville Historic District, 168-0012
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.
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March 8, 1836Eventto the day
Clarke County is formed from Frederick County, with Berryville as its seat
County formation and Berryville's role as county seat.
Evidence C04
✓ Supported by a sourceClarke County was formed from Frederick County on March 8, 1836.
What the source supports
The county government supplies this formation date.
Uncertainty
The original act and competing explanations of the split need their own investigation.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
A Brief County History
Clarke County government
Locator: Opening paragraph: county establishment
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: county-history. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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Evidence C21
✓ Supported by a sourceDHR says Berryville became the county seat in 1836.
What the source supports
A governmental role for the town is specified in the district account.
Uncertainty
This summary is not the original county-seat decision.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Berryville Historic District, 168-0012
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2024-09-16 (last update)
Locator: First historical paragraph: county seat and railroad
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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November 1867Documentto the month
Josephine sells a shirt to her former enslavers
Clermont describes a transaction in Josephine's own name.
Evidence C09
✓ Supported by a sourceClermont describes a November 1867 receipt for a shirt sold by Josephine to her former enslavers.
What the source supports
A specific document has been identified by the institution.
Uncertainty
The source description, not the original receipt, was read. No amount or full transcription is supplied.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Josephine Williams
Clermont Farm / Cory A. Van Horn
Locator: Four-document list, item 2: November 1867 receipt
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clermont-josephine. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1870Eventto the year
Twenty-four formerly enslaved people buy the 31 acres that become Josephine City
The year and number of buyers come from DHR.
Evidence C06
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsDHR dates Josephine City's founding to 1870 on a 31-acre parcel.
What the source supports
The district account identifies the transaction's year and parcel size.
Uncertainty
This is a summary of the underlying land records, not an inspection of the deed.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Josephine City Historic District, 168-5029
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2024-02-17 (last update)
Locator: Opening historical paragraph
Relevant passageincluding Josephine Williams, the presumed namesake of Josephine City.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-josephine. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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Evidence C07
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsDHR describes 24 formerly enslaved African Americans as the land buyers.
What the source supports
The buyers are described in the district history.
Uncertainty
This pilot does not identify or resolve the identities of all 24 buyers.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Josephine City Historic District, 168-5029
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2024-02-17 (last update)
Locator: Opening historical paragraph
Relevant passageincluding Josephine Williams, the presumed namesake of Josephine City.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-josephine. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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September 1870Documentto the month
Josephine buys Lots 1 and 2 on the plat
The plat described by Clermont.
Evidence C10
✓ Supported by a sourceClermont identifies Josephine as the purchaser of Lots 1 and 2 in a September 1870 plat.
What the source supports
The institutional account names lots and a month.
Uncertainty
No lot geometry is reconstructed or displayed; original plat inspection remains open.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Josephine Williams
Clermont Farm / Cory A. Van Horn
Locator: Four-document list, items 3 and 4: 1870 plat and 1871 sale
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clermont-josephine. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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May 1871Documentto the month
Josephine and Phillip Williams are party to a Lot 1 sale
A clerk record described by Clermont.
Evidence C11
✓ Supported by a sourceClermont identifies a May 1871 clerk record of the sale of Lot 1 with her husband, Phillip Williams.
What the source supports
A follow-up record is described by the source.
Uncertainty
The clerk record and the identities in it were not independently inspected.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Josephine Williams
Clermont Farm / Cory A. Van Horn
Locator: Four-document list, items 3 and 4: 1870 plat and 1871 sale
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clermont-josephine. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1879Eventto the year
The railroad reaches Berryville
DHR's transport-history anchor.
Evidence C05
✓ Supported by a sourceDHR dates the railroad's arrival in Berryville to 1879.
What the source supports
A transport-history anchor in the town's register summary.
Uncertainty
The underlying railroad records were not inspected.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Berryville Historic District, 168-0012
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2024-09-16 (last update)
Locator: First historical paragraph: county seat and railroad
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1882Eventto the year
The Josephine City School is built with local labor and money
A new educational building and a community investment.
Evidence C12
✓ Supported by a sourceDHR dates the Josephine City School to 1882 and describes local contributions of labor and money.
What the source supports
The school's date and community funding are supported by the institutional account.
Uncertainty
School-board and building records remain separate retrieval targets.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Josephine City School, 168-5027
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2024-02-17 (last update)
Locator: First historical paragraph
Relevant passageThe building was erected with contributions of labor and money from the local black citizenry
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-josephine. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1914Publicationto the year
The Battletown name is traced to tavern fighting
Publication of a retrospective, not the date of the alleged fights.
Evidence C03
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsGold's 1914 history links the Battletown name to tavern fighting and Daniel Morgan.
What the source supports
The explanation is present in a later published account.
Uncertainty
Existing OCR was read; page images were not inspected. This is not contemporary proof of the eighteenth-century events.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
History of Clarke County, Virginia and its connection with the war between the states
Thomas D. Gold · 1914 (publication)
Locator: Printed p. 16, paragraph beginning "Among the men"
Relevant passagewhere he had many fisticuffs and no doubt helped to give the town its name.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: gold-1914. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
History of Clarke County, Virginia and its connection with the war between the states
Thomas D. Gold · 1914 (publication)
Locator: Printed p. 30, Chapter IV: Battletown or Berryville
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: gold-1914. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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Evidence C20
✓ Supported by a sourceGold's preface frames the 1914 work as a Confederate-veteran remembrance project.
What the source supports
The author's stated purpose provides context for reading the volume.
Uncertainty
A source's perspective requires interpretation; it does not automatically prove or disprove every individual claim.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
History of Clarke County, Virginia and its connection with the war between the states
Thomas D. Gold · 1914 (publication)
Locator: Preface, purpose of the history and veteran-camp connection
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: gold-1914. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1930Eventto the year
The original Josephine City school is moved and becomes a home economics building
The older school moves and gains a different educational role.
Evidence C13
✓ Supported by a sourceDHR says the original school was moved in 1930 and used for home economics until 1971.
What the source supports
The old school's change of use is distinguished from construction of a later school.
Uncertainty
This is not a claim that all later educational buildings were the same structure.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Josephine City School, 168-5027
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2024-02-17 (last update)
Locator: Second historical paragraph, move and change of use
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-josephine. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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July 12, 2003Eventto the day
The Josephine School Community Museum opens its first exhibit
The date provided by the museum itself.
Evidence C14
✓ Supported by a sourceThe museum dates its inaugural exhibit to July 12, 2003.
What the source supports
A specific milestone from the institution's own history.
Uncertainty
It does not establish present opening hours or public access.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
History
Josephine School Community Museum
Locator: Final paragraph, inaugural museum exhibit
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: jschool-history. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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2002Eventto the year
The old schoolhouse renovated for the museum
The year the district nomination gives for the 1882 building's renovation to serve the Josephine School Community Museum.
Evidence C98
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe nomination states that the 1882 building ceased being used for educational purposes in 1971 and was completely renovated in 2002 to serve as the Josephine School Community Museum.
What the source supports
The end of the building's educational use and the year of its renovation for the museum, from the district nomination. The 1971 date agrees with the school's register entry.
Uncertainty
A statement about the building. It does not establish when the museum organisation was founded, who carried out the renovation, or its cost. The museum organisation and the building remain separate records here.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The 1971 end of educational use and the 2002 renovation, in one sentence of the nomination.
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. The same paragraph records a side restroom wing added in 1961.
Relevant passageThe building ceased being used for educational purposes in 1971 and was completely renovated in 2002 to serve its current function as the Josephine School Community Museum.
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.
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1954Eventto the year
The newly formed Ruritan Club sponsors the county fair for the first time
The first fair sponsored by the newly formed Ruritan Club, as a 2024 article and a 1989 survey both report. Not the first fair in the county.
Evidence C99
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsKalbian's 1989 county survey states that the Ruritan Club has sponsored a county fair each summer since 1954.
What the source supports
That a 1989 survey of the county records the club as the fair's sponsor since 1954.
Uncertainty
The surveyor's statement in a narrative theme, with no cited record. It concerns sponsorship, not the founding of any fair, and the 2024 article records earlier fairs at the same grounds.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The survey's sentence on sponsorship since 1954.
Clarke County Rural Reconnaissance Survey, DHR CK-015
Maral S. Kalbian · 1989 (publication)
Locator: PDF page 69, narrative theme F, "World War I to the Present 1914-1989"
Relevant passageThe Ruritan Club has sponsored a county fair each summer since 1954.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-surveys-kalbian. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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Evidence C100
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsA 2024 Clarke Monthly article reports that the 1954 fair in downtown Berryville was, for the first time, sponsored by the newly formed Ruritan Club of Clarke County; the club's own page says it established the Clarke County Fair in 1954.
What the source supports
Two accounts, one a magazine retrospective and one the club's self-description, agree that the club's sponsorship began with the 1954 fair.
Uncertainty
The same article reports a Clarke County Junior Fair at the horse-show grounds in 1945 and cancellations in 1951-53, so "established" is the club's word for the fair it runs, not a first county fair. The article's Clarke Courier citations are second-hand and were not inspected.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The article's sentence on the first Ruritan-sponsored fair.
Ruritan Club Embarks On A Modern-Day Barn Raising
Cathy Kuehner, Clarke Monthly · 2024-03-02 (publication)
Locator: History section, on the 1954 Clarke County Agricultural Fair in downtown Berryville
Relevant passageFor the first time it was sponsored by the newly formed Ruritan Club of Clarke County.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: contextualizes. The club's own one-sentence account; self-history, not confirmation.
About
Ruritan Club of Clarke County
Locator: Programs paragraph
Relevant passageThe Ruritan Club of Clarke County established the Clarke County Fair in 1954.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: ruritan-club-self. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1960Eventto the year
The Ruritan Club buys the 30-acre horse-show grounds and renames them the Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds
The club's reported purchase and renaming of the 30-acre grounds, and its first project there.
Evidence C101
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsClarke Monthly reports that when the Berryville Horse Show Association disbanded, the Ruritan Club bought the 30-acre Berryville Horse Show grounds in 1960 and renamed them the Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds.
What the source supports
The reported purchase, acreage and renaming in 1960, which is why the grounds and the club are linked here.
Uncertainty
A 2024 retrospective; no deed was inspected and the association's disbanding is not dated. The article's later statement that the grounds grew to almost 50 acres with 20 structures is undated and is not claimed.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The purchase and rename sentence.
Ruritan Club Embarks On A Modern-Day Barn Raising
Cathy Kuehner, Clarke Monthly · 2024-03-02 (publication)
Locator: History section, on the 1960 purchase
Relevant passageWhen the Berryville Horse Show Association disbanded, the Ruritan Club bought the 30-acre Berryville Horse Show grounds in 1960 and renamed it the Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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Evidence C102
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsClarke Monthly reports that the club's first big project in 1960 was building new grandstands after the circa-1901 wood structure collapsed under a heavy snow.
What the source supports
The reported first construction project on the grounds and its cause.
Uncertainty
The collapse is undated and "circa-1901" is the article's estimate of the old structure's age.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The grandstand sentence.
Ruritan Club Embarks On A Modern-Day Barn Raising
Cathy Kuehner, Clarke Monthly · 2024-03-02 (publication)
Locator: History section, on the club's first project
Relevant passageTheir first big project in 1960 was building new grandstands after the circa-1901 wood structure collapsed under a heavy snow.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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February 1984Eventto the month
The Bank of Clarke County holds a retirement dinner at the Ruritan Fairgrounds
A retirement dinner recorded by the bank's own history, showing the grounds in use as a venue.
Evidence C104
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Bank of Clarke County's history records a retirement dinner held at the Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds in February 1984, and the bank's 19 April 1984 stockholders' meeting held there.
What the source supports
The grounds in use as a banquet and meeting venue in 1984, from an institution recording its own events.
Uncertainty
Incidental to the bank's narrative; it says nothing about ownership, the fair, or other uses of the grounds.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The February 1984 dinner and the April 1984 meeting.
Bank of Clarke County history, page 130
Bank of Clarke County
Locator: Page 130, retirement notices of 1984. The next paragraph: "The April 19, 1984 stockholders' meeting was held at the Ruritan Fairgrounds".
Relevant passageA retirement dinner was held in their honor at the Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds in February of 1984.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: bank-of-clarke-history. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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February 24, 2012Documentto the day
Berryville Grille listed at 9 East Main
The earliest capture inspected that names the Grille among Main Street restaurants. It dates the listing, not the opening.
Evidence C107
✓ DocumentedThat it was soArchived directory pages list a restaurant named Berryville Grille at 9 East Main Street, Berryville: by name in a Main Street portal captured 24 February 2012, and with the address in tourism and Main Street listings captured 7 March 2015, 16 June 2021 and 11 December 2022.
What the source supports
That a business of this name was listed at this address across a span of captures from 2012 to 2022.
Uncertainty
Each capture attests one day. Nothing here gives an opening date, a closing date or continuous operation between captures; the 2012 page shows the name without an address.
Source
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2012 portal names the Grille among member restaurants.
Shop, Berryville Main Street portal (captured 24 February 2012)
Berryville Main Street · 2012-02-24 (publication)
Locator: Restaurants list on the captured Shop page
Relevant passageBerryville Grille
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: berryville-main-street-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2015 tourism page gives the address.
Berryville Dining, Clarke County Tourism website (captured 7 March 2015)
Clarke County Economic Development and Tourism · 2015-03-07 (publication)
Locator: Berryville Grille entry on the captured Berryville Dining page
Relevant passageBerryville Grille 9 E. Main St. ... a varied menu that includes both dinners and lunches at more than reasonable prices ... Wine and beer available with meals.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-tourism-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2021 tourism page gives the address.
Eat, Clarke County Virginia Tourism website (captured 16 June 2021)
Clarke County Economic Development and Tourism · 2021-06-16 (publication)
Locator: Eat list, first entry
Relevant passageBerryville Grille 9 East Main Street, Berryville
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-tourism-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2022 Main Street page gives the address.
Dine, Berryville Main Street website (captured 11 December 2022)
Berryville Main Street · 2022-12-11 (publication)
Locator: Dine list, Berryville Grille entry
Relevant passageBerryville Grille 9 East Main Street, Berryville
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: berryville-main-street-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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February 14, 2025Documentto the day
SueCat's Bistro listed at 9 East Main
A directory capture showing the second restaurant at the address, its address field still carrying the Grille's name.
Evidence C109
✓ DocumentedThat it was soA Berryville Main Street directory page captured 14 February 2025 lists SueCat's Bistro at 9 East Main Street as a casual restaurant with a southern-inspired menu; the listing's address field still carried the words "The Berryville Grille".
What the source supports
That a second business was listed at the same address by early 2025, and what it said it served.
Uncertainty
The leftover "Berryville Grille" in an address field is a trace of an earlier listing, not evidence of when one restaurant closed and the next opened, nor of any transfer between them. The lane reported a closing notice on the bistro's own site in September 2026; that page could not be read by this project, so no closure is claimed.
Source
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The directory listing with its address field.
SueCat's Bistro, Berryville Main Street directory listing (captured 14 February 2025)
Berryville Main Street · 2025-02-14 (publication)
Locator: Listing address field and description
Relevant passageThe Berryville Grille, 9, East Main Street, Berryville Historic District, Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia, 22611 ... SueCat's is a casual restaurant with a southern inspired menu
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: berryville-main-street-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary document Evidence role: contextualizes. The bistro's own site, captured March 2025, describing the same menu and its bar.
SueCat's Bistro website, home page (captured 24 March 2025)
SueCat's Bistro · 2025-03-24 (publication)
Locator: Home page description
Relevant passageSueCat's is a casual restaurant with a southern inspired menu ... the ever changing variety of eight craft beers we have on tap
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: suecats-self. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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April 15, 2026Documentto the day
Aztec City listed at 9 East Main
A directory capture showing the third restaurant at the address.
Evidence C110
✓ DocumentedThat it was soA Main Street directory page captured 15 April 2026 and the county tourism listing read on 10 September 2026 list Aztec City Mexican Restaurant at 9 East Main Street; the directory describes Tex-Mex favourites and dishes inspired by Mexican cooking.
What the source supports
That a third business was listed at the address in 2026, and what it said it served.
Uncertainty
Listed-as-of statements. No opening date, ownership or relationship to the earlier occupants is established, and "current" means the day the page was read.
Source
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2026 directory listing.
Aztec City Mexican Restaurant, Berryville Main Street directory listing (captured 15 April 2026)
Berryville Main Street · 2026-04-15 (publication)
Locator: Listing address and description
Relevant passage9 E Main Street, Berryville, VA ... a diverse menu that features both classic Tex-Mex favorites and authentic dishes inspired by the rich culinary heritage of Mexico
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: berryville-main-street-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The live tourism listing on 10 September 2026.
Eat & Drink, Experience Clarke County website (read 10 September 2026)
Clarke County Economic Development and Tourism · 2026-09-10 (publication)
Locator: Eat & Drink list
Relevant passageAztec City Mexican Restaurant 9 E Main Street Berryville 22611
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-tourism-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1881Eventto the year
Winston Hall built, by the Legion's account
The Legion page says 1881; the bank's history says 1884 with an 1885 opening. Both are kept; neither is chosen.
Evidence C111
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsA history page maintained for American Legion Post 41 states that Winston Hall stood on East Main Street where the Bank of Clarke County driveway is now, that it was built in 1881 by Siz Daingerfield, whom it describes as a Black barkeeper, and that it was named for the singer Jenny Winston.
What the source supports
The Legion's account of the builder, the date and the name, and its description of the site.
Uncertainty
An uncited retrospective. The bank's history gives 1884 as the building date, an 1885 opening, and spells the builder's name Dangerfield; the two accounts are not reconciled here. "Where the driveway is now" is the source's locator, not a parcel.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The Legion page's opening sentences.
Early Meeting Hall (Post 41 Berryville, Virginia, American Legion Centennial Celebration site)
American Legion Post 41, Berryville (post-submitted history)
Locator: First paragraph
Relevant passageWinston Hall was on East Main Street where the Bank of Clarke County driveway is now located. Built in 1881 by Siz Daingerfield, a black barkeep, it was named for singer, Jenny Winston.
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Open sourceSource family: legion-post-41-centennial. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: complicates. The bank history's different date and spelling.
Bank of Clarke County history, page 102
Bank of Clarke County
Locator: Page 102, on the building's origin
Relevant passageIt was originally built in 1884 by a black man named Siz Dangerfield who operated a saloon for whites across the street. It was known as Winston Hall (named after Jennie Winston who gave a performance there the night the hall was opened in 1885)
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Open sourceSource family: bank-of-clarke-history. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1920 to 1938Eventto the year
Post 41 meets at Winston Hall
The span the Legion gives for its own meetings in the hall.
Evidence C112
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Legion account describes the upstairs as the largest meeting hall in town, used for entertainments and school graduations, with a saloon downstairs, and says Post 41 met there from 1920 until 1938.
What the source supports
The hall's uses as the Legion remembers them, and the span of its own meetings there.
Uncertainty
The bank's history places Daingerfield's saloon across the street rather than downstairs. The Legion's meeting dates are its own institutional memory.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The Legion page on the hall's uses and its meetings.
Early Meeting Hall (Post 41 Berryville, Virginia, American Legion Centennial Celebration site)
American Legion Post 41, Berryville (post-submitted history)
Locator: First paragraph, continued
Relevant passageUpstairs was the largest meeting hall in the town and was used for entertainments and even school graduations; down stairs was the saloon. From 1920 until 1938, American Legion Post 41 used Winston Hall for its meetings.
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Open sourceSource family: legion-post-41-centennial. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: complicates. The bank history on the saloon's location.
Bank of Clarke County history, page 102
Bank of Clarke County
Locator: Page 102, on the building's origin
Relevant passageIt was originally built in 1884 by a black man named Siz Dangerfield who operated a saloon for whites across the street. It was known as Winston Hall (named after Jennie Winston who gave a performance there the night the hall was opened in 1885)
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Open sourceSource family: bank-of-clarke-history. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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February 1957Eventto the month
The Bank of Clarke County buys Winston Hall, then known as the Morris building
The bank's own history records the purchase for $25,000 from the heirs of F. H. Morris.
Evidence C115
✓ DocumentedThat it happenedTwo accounts agree that the Bank of Clarke County bought the building in 1957 and demolished it in 1962 for bank expansion and parking; the bank's own history dates the purchase to February 1957, at $25,000, from the heirs of F. H. Morris.
What the source supports
The end of the building: purchase and demolition, with the bank recording its own transaction.
Uncertainty
No deed or demolition permit was inspected. The Legion gives the purpose as expanding the bank building and parking lot; the bank says a drive-through and a parking lot.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The Legion page on the 1957 purchase and 1962 demolition.
Early Meeting Hall (Post 41 Berryville, Virginia, American Legion Centennial Celebration site)
American Legion Post 41, Berryville (post-submitted history)
Locator: Second paragraph, last sentence
Relevant passageIn 1957, the building was purchased by the Bank of Clarke County and demolished in 1962 to expand the bank building and parking lot.
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Open sourceSource family: legion-post-41-centennial. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The bank's record of its February 1957 purchase.
Bank of Clarke County history, page 102
Bank of Clarke County
Locator: Page 102, entry for 1957
Relevant passageIn February of 1957, Bank of Clarke County purchased the Morris building that adjoined the Bank on the east for $25,000 from the heirs of the late F. H. Morris for future bank expansion, primarily to give the bank a drive-through option.
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Open sourceSource family: bank-of-clarke-history. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The bank on the 1962 demolition.
Bank of Clarke County history, page 102
Bank of Clarke County
Locator: Page 102, on the hall's use and end
Relevant passageWinston Hall was built as a theater, complete with stage and dressing rooms. ... Winston Hall would be demolished in 1962 and made into a parking lot.
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1962Eventto the year
The bank demolishes Winston Hall for expansion and parking
Both accounts give 1962, for bank expansion and parking.
Evidence C115
✓ DocumentedThat it happenedTwo accounts agree that the Bank of Clarke County bought the building in 1957 and demolished it in 1962 for bank expansion and parking; the bank's own history dates the purchase to February 1957, at $25,000, from the heirs of F. H. Morris.
What the source supports
The end of the building: purchase and demolition, with the bank recording its own transaction.
Uncertainty
No deed or demolition permit was inspected. The Legion gives the purpose as expanding the bank building and parking lot; the bank says a drive-through and a parking lot.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The Legion page on the 1957 purchase and 1962 demolition.
Early Meeting Hall (Post 41 Berryville, Virginia, American Legion Centennial Celebration site)
American Legion Post 41, Berryville (post-submitted history)
Locator: Second paragraph, last sentence
Relevant passageIn 1957, the building was purchased by the Bank of Clarke County and demolished in 1962 to expand the bank building and parking lot.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: legion-post-41-centennial. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The bank's record of its February 1957 purchase.
Bank of Clarke County history, page 102
Bank of Clarke County
Locator: Page 102, entry for 1957
Relevant passageIn February of 1957, Bank of Clarke County purchased the Morris building that adjoined the Bank on the east for $25,000 from the heirs of the late F. H. Morris for future bank expansion, primarily to give the bank a drive-through option.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: bank-of-clarke-history. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The bank on the 1962 demolition.
Bank of Clarke County history, page 102
Bank of Clarke County
Locator: Page 102, on the hall's use and end
Relevant passageWinston Hall was built as a theater, complete with stage and dressing rooms. ... Winston Hall would be demolished in 1962 and made into a parking lot.
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Open sourceSource family: bank-of-clarke-history. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1942Eventto the year
John U. Miller Jr. sells watermelons at Route 7 and Chilly Hollow Road at age six
The remembered start of the roadside business at Route 7 and Chilly Hollow Road.
Evidence C117
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsIn a 2013 Clarke Monthly interview, John U. Miller Jr. recalled being set up in 1942, aged six, with a wagon of watermelons at the corner of Route 7 and Chilly Hollow Road, Friday to Sunday in season; the article adds that Nall's stood at that corner in 2013.
What the source supports
The remembered beginning of the roadside business, and where the writer located the corner in 2013.
Uncertainty
One person's recollection seventy years on, reported by a journalist. "Where Nall's is now" is a 2013 location marker, not a statement about land, succession or what stands there today.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The article's sentence on the 1942 wagon.
Melons and Music on the Shenandoah
Jennifer Lee, Clarke Monthly · 2013-07-20 (publication)
Locator: Section "The Melons"
Relevant passageIn 1942, at the age of 6, John Jr. was set up with a wagon of melons at the corner of Route 7 and Chilly Hollow Road (where Nall's is now located), Friday to Sunday, during the season.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-lee-miller. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1950 to 1959Eventto the year
The wagon becomes a fruit and vegetable stand supplied by the family's greenhouses
Sometime in the 1950s, by Miller's recollection; bounded to the decade, no closer.
Evidence C118
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe same article reports that in the 1950s the wagon grew into a fruit and vegetable stand selling produce, much of it grown in the family's five greenhouses flanking Route 7, and that Miller ran the stand for over 45 years.
What the source supports
The stand, the five greenhouses beside the road, and the length of Miller's run as he recalled it.
Uncertainty
Decade precision for the stand; no end year. The article does not say where the greenhouses stood beyond "flanking Route 7", who worked in them, or what became of them. A remembered connection between the greenhouses and a later high-school site is not in this article and is not established.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The article's sentence on the stand and greenhouses.
Melons and Music on the Shenandoah
Jennifer Lee, Clarke Monthly · 2013-07-20 (publication)
Locator: Section "The Melons", on the stand
Relevant passageIn the 1950s, the watermelon wagon was expanded into a full-fledged fruit and vegetable stand where the Millers sold a variety of fruit and vegetables, many grown in their five greenhouses flanking Route 7. John Jr. ran the stand for over 45 years.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-lee-miller. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1919Eventto the year
The Sign of the Motor Car Inn opens in the house
The Elder family's inn, garage and service station at 102 W. Main, as a 2015 account reports it.
Evidence C125
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe 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.
What the source supports
A separate, named business at 102 W. Main between the house's domestic phase and the Battletown Inn.
Uncertainty
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.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The 1919 opening, the Blue Book listing and the takeover.
Wanted: The Battletown Inn
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.
Contemporary report 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, 1925, selected issues (Library of Congress, Chronicling America OCR)
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.
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June 4, 1925Publicationto the day
The Sign of the Motor Car and the Battletown Inn are separate establishments
OCR of the Clarke Courier names The Sign of the Motor Car and the Battletown Inn separately; qualified until the page image is read.
Evidence C126
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsNormalised OCR of the Clarke Courier for 1925 names The Sign of the Motor Car and the Battletown Inn as separate establishments on one page (4 June), and reports the Shenandoah Valley Hotel and Inn Association meeting at the Battletown Inn as guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Pulliam (8 October).
What the source supports
That in 1925 the two names belonged to two places, and that a couple named Pulliam hosted at the Battletown Inn, as far as OCR can show.
Uncertainty
OCR text normalised by the research package; the page images could not be opened (loc.gov script challenge on 10 September 2026). Nothing is quoted. Hosting a meeting shows an operating role, not ownership. Other 1925 notices in the package (a card party, a lodge social, a resident's death at the inn) are held until a page image is read.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The 4 June 1925 page, by OCR.
Clarke Courier, 1925, selected issues (Library of Congress, Chronicling America OCR)
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.
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The 8 October 1925 report, by OCR.
Clarke Courier, 1925, selected issues (Library of Congress, Chronicling America OCR)
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1925 (publication)
Locator: Issue of 8 October 1925, page 1 (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85025371/1925-10-08/ed-1/?sp=1): a report that the Shenandoah Valley Hotel and Inn Association met on the Tuesday at the Battletown Inn as guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Pulliam. 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.
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1952Eventto the year
The Battletown name moves to 102 W. Main
The earlier inn's proprietors buy the Sarah Stribling House and bring the name with them, by a 2015 account.
Evidence C123
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsA 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.
What the source supports
The reported origin of the later inn at another site and the reported 1952 move of the name to the Sarah Stribling House.
Uncertainty
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.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The Virginia Hotel origin and the 1952 transfer.
Wanted: The Battletown Inn
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.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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October 10, 1998Eventto the day
The Rotary Club of Clarke County holds its Charter Night at the Battletown Inn
The Rotary Club of Clarke County's own record of its first night, with 26 members.
Evidence C127
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe 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.
What the source supports
The inn at 102 W. Main in use as a civic meeting place at the end of the 1990s.
Uncertainty
The club's own account; it names neither the inn's owner nor its operator.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The Charter Night sentence and the meeting-place sentence.
History (Rotary Club of Clarke County)
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.
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June 17, 2015Publicationto the day
The Battletown Inn closes, its door locked and the property for sale
The date Clarke Monthly reported the inn closed; the last day of service is not known.
Evidence C130
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsBy 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.
What the source supports
The closure as reported in June 2015, the property's layout, and its reported owner at that date.
Uncertainty
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.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The locked door, the guest-room building and the owner.
Wanted: The Battletown Inn
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
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1905Eventto the year
Upton Boyce's orchards at Tuleyries reach eighty-three acres
Upton Boyce's orchards at Tuleyries reach eighty-three acres, by the article's sources.
Evidence C131
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Proceedings article reports that Upton Boyce planted about thirty-four acres of apple orchard north and east of Tuleyries in the late nineteenth century, that the 1880 agricultural census recorded six acres of apple orchard with fifty trees, and that by 1905 he had eighty-three acres in orchard east and southeast of the mansion.
What the source supports
The growth of a commercial orchard on the Tuleyries estate between 1879 and 1905, as the article reads the census and its sources.
Uncertainty
Three figures for three dates; they are not one number. The article is a synthesis; the census and the 1905 source were not inspected by this project.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The 1880 census figures and the 1905 total.
Roots of a Clarke County Treasure: From Alexander Henderson to Joseph Tuley and Graham Blandy, the Virginia State Arboretum and Blandy Experimental Farm Have Been 225 Years in the Making (Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association, Volume XXVIII, 2012, printed pages 45-56)
Clarke County Historical Association; adapted from the Blandy Experimental Farm "Phase 1 Archeological Investigations" prepared by Rivanna Archeological Services, Charlottesville (no individual byline) · 2012 (publication)
Locator: Printed pages 51-53, on Upton Boyce's orchards
Relevant passageThe 1880 agricultural census documents that Boyce had only six acres of apple orchard with fifty apple trees, and twenty-five peach trees planted in 1879. ... by 1905, Boyce had a total of eighty-three acres in orchard east and southeast of his Tuleyries mansion.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: ccha-proceedings-28. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1926Eventto the year
Graham Blandy's will leaves 712 acres to the University of Virginia as the Blandy Experimental Farm
Graham Blandy's will gives 712 acres to the University of Virginia, which takes possession the same year.
Evidence C133
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe article says Graham F. Blandy died in 1926 and that his will left 712 acres of the Tuleyries property, not including the mansion house and adjacent lands, to the University of Virginia, to be called the Blandy Experimental Farm with the goal to "teach boys how to farm"; the University took possession in 1926. It adds that Horace J. Martin had been farm manager of Tuleyries during the first two decades of Blandy's ownership.
What the source supports
The bequest that created the institution, the land it did and did not include, and the owner-versus-manager distinction on the estate before it.
Uncertainty
The will and deed were not inspected. The 712 acres are not the whole estate: the mansion and adjacent lands stayed out, so Tuleyries and Blandy are different pieces of ground with different histories after 1926.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The manager, the death and the bequest's exclusions.
Roots of a Clarke County Treasure: From Alexander Henderson to Joseph Tuley and Graham Blandy, the Virginia State Arboretum and Blandy Experimental Farm Have Been 225 Years in the Making (Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association, Volume XXVIII, 2012, printed pages 45-56)
Clarke County Historical Association; adapted from the Blandy Experimental Farm "Phase 1 Archeological Investigations" prepared by Rivanna Archeological Services, Charlottesville (no individual byline) · 2012 (publication)
Locator: Printed pages 53-54, on the farm manager under Blandy and the bequest
Relevant passageDuring the first two decades of Blandy ownership, Horace J. Martin was the farm manager of Tuleyries. Graham F. Blandy died in 1926. His will left 712-acres of the Tuleyries property, not including the mansion house and adjacent lands, to the University of Virginia.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: ccha-proceedings-28. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The name, the purpose and the 1926 possession.
Roots of a Clarke County Treasure: From Alexander Henderson to Joseph Tuley and Graham Blandy, the Virginia State Arboretum and Blandy Experimental Farm Have Been 225 Years in the Making (Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association, Volume XXVIII, 2012, printed pages 45-56)
Clarke County Historical Association; adapted from the Blandy Experimental Farm "Phase 1 Archeological Investigations" prepared by Rivanna Archeological Services, Charlottesville (no individual byline) · 2012 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 54, on the will and possession
Relevant passageThe will stipulated that the property was to be called the "Blandy Experimental Farm" with the goal to "teach boys how to farm." The University of Virginia took possession of Blandy Experimental Farm in 1926.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: ccha-proceedings-28. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1927Eventto the year
Blandy's first full season costs $8,000 to run against a $4,000 apple crop
Harry Antrim in charge of the commercial enterprises; $8,000 to run the place against a $4,000 apple crop.
Evidence C134
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe article reports that in the first full season, 1927, Orland E. White, the first director, found weed-filled fields and scattered old orchards; that Harry Antrim, the farm manager, was placed in charge of the property's commercial enterprises; and that White noted it took $8,000 to run Blandy while the apple crop brought in $4,000.
What the source supports
Commercial apple growing continuing under the University, who ran it day to day, and a first-year comparison of costs and crop income.
Uncertainty
A source-reported comparison, not accounts: no total revenue, loss or accounting method is given. Director, farm manager and owner are three different roles and are kept so.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Antrim's charge and the 1927 figures.
Roots of a Clarke County Treasure: From Alexander Henderson to Joseph Tuley and Graham Blandy, the Virginia State Arboretum and Blandy Experimental Farm Have Been 225 Years in the Making (Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association, Volume XXVIII, 2012, printed pages 45-56)
Clarke County Historical Association; adapted from the Blandy Experimental Farm "Phase 1 Archeological Investigations" prepared by Rivanna Archeological Services, Charlottesville (no individual byline) · 2012 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 54, on the first season
Relevant passageAntrim was immediately hired as the Blandy farm manager and was placed in charge of the commercial enterprises of the property. In 1927, White noted that it took $8,000 to run Blandy but that the apple crop brought in only $4,000.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: ccha-proceedings-28. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1935 to 1939Eventto the year
Orchards around the Quarters give way to the arboretum
"By the late 1930s", the article says; bounded here to those years, no closer.
Evidence C135
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe article says that by the late 1930s the old orchards surrounding the Quarters building were gradually removed as planting within the Arboretum expanded, and that Harry Antrim died in 1931 and was replaced as farm manager by his son Robert.
What the source supports
The turn from orchard ground to arboretum ground around the Quarters, and the succession of farm managers.
Uncertainty
It concerns the orchards around the Quarters; the article does not say every orchard on the 712 acres was removed, and this site does not say so either.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The orchard-removal and manager-succession sentences.
Roots of a Clarke County Treasure: From Alexander Henderson to Joseph Tuley and Graham Blandy, the Virginia State Arboretum and Blandy Experimental Farm Have Been 225 Years in the Making (Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association, Volume XXVIII, 2012, printed pages 45-56)
Clarke County Historical Association; adapted from the Blandy Experimental Farm "Phase 1 Archeological Investigations" prepared by Rivanna Archeological Services, Charlottesville (no individual byline) · 2012 (publication)
Locator: Printed pages 54-55, on the orchards and the managers
Relevant passageBy the late 1930s, the old orchards surrounding Quarters building were also gradually removed as planting within the Arboretum expanded. Harry Antrim died in 1931 and was replaced by his son, Robert Antrim, as farm manager.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: ccha-proceedings-28. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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1976Eventto the year
Farming for profit ends; farming continues by lease
About 500 acres leased to Edward B. Lee Sr. and about 80 kept for community-college students.
Evidence C136
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe article states that in 1976 the decision was made "to abandon farming for profit altogether", that Blandy leased approximately 500 acres to Edward B. Lee Sr., a local farmer, and that approximately 80 acres were set aside for the use of Fairfax Community College students.
What the source supports
The end of the University's own for-profit farming, and the two ways farming continued on the land afterwards: a farmer's lease and student instruction.
Uncertainty
Abandoning farming for profit is not the end of farming: the same sentence leases most of the land to a farmer. Lease terms, crops and duration are not stated, and no later farm operation is dated here.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The 1976 decision, the lease and the student acreage.
Roots of a Clarke County Treasure: From Alexander Henderson to Joseph Tuley and Graham Blandy, the Virginia State Arboretum and Blandy Experimental Farm Have Been 225 Years in the Making (Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association, Volume XXVIII, 2012, printed pages 45-56)
Clarke County Historical Association; adapted from the Blandy Experimental Farm "Phase 1 Archeological Investigations" prepared by Rivanna Archeological Services, Charlottesville (no individual byline) · 2012 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 56, on 1976
Relevant passageIn 1976 the decision was made to abandon farming for profit altogether and Blandy leased approximately 500 acres to Edward B. Lee Sr., a local farmer. Approximately 80 acres were set aside for use of Fairfax Community College students.
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1986Eventto the year
Blandy Experimental Farm is designated the State Arboretum of Virginia
The designation, dated from "the following year" after a 1985 appointment.
Evidence C137
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe article reports that Blandy Experimental Farm was designated the State Arboretum of Virginia in the year after Edward F. Connor's 1985 appointment as director, that is, 1986.
What the source supports
The institution's later public designation.
Uncertainty
The year is inferred from "the following year" after 1985 in the source; no designation instrument was inspected.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The 1985 appointment and "the following year".
Roots of a Clarke County Treasure: From Alexander Henderson to Joseph Tuley and Graham Blandy, the Virginia State Arboretum and Blandy Experimental Farm Have Been 225 Years in the Making (Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association, Volume XXVIII, 2012, printed pages 45-56)
Clarke County Historical Association; adapted from the Blandy Experimental Farm "Phase 1 Archeological Investigations" prepared by Rivanna Archeological Services, Charlottesville (no individual byline) · 2012 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 56, on the arboretum designation
Relevant passageIn 1985, Edward F. Connor appointed Director of Blandy. ... The following year, Blandy Experimental Farm was designated the State Arboretum of Virginia.
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1830Eventto the year
Treadwell Smith buys the house and keeps an ordinary
By the 2017 account: bought at public auction, run as a tavern with food and lodging.
Evidence C141
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe article says Treadwell Smith bought the building at public auction in 1830 and ran an "ordinary", a tavern offering food and lodging, and that after his death in 1872 his son Charles inherited it.
What the source supports
The tavern phase and the first ownership the article names.
Uncertainty
No deed inspected; the article does not say how long the ordinary operated.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The Treadwell Smith paragraph.
Life and Times in the Hawthorne Building
Betsy Arnette, Clarke Monthly · 2017-11-16 (publication)
Locator: Paragraph on Treadwell Smith
Relevant passageTreadwell Smith purchased the building at public auction in 1830 and operated an "ordinary," or tavern, offering food and lodging to travelers. After Treadwell died in 1872, his son Charles inherited the building.
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1887Eventto the year
Dr. Alfred Tucker rents the Hawthorne building for his office and a small hospital
Dr. Alfred Tucker rents the building, by the 2017 account.
Evidence C142
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe article says that in 1887 Dr. Alfred Tucker rented the building for his medical office and a small hospital, and that he died in 1915.
What the source supports
The building's first medical use, as a tenancy.
Uncertainty
Renting is not owning; the article does not say when the tenancy ended.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The Dr. Tucker paragraph.
Life and Times in the Hawthorne Building
Betsy Arnette, Clarke Monthly · 2017-11-16 (publication)
Locator: Paragraph on Dr. Tucker
Relevant passageIn 1887, Dr. Alfred Tucker rented the building and established his medical office and a small hospital there. ... Dr. Tucker died in 1915.
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1919Eventto the year
Cummins buys the building and opens a clinic
The county's first public health nurse works from here, by the 2017 account.
Evidence C143
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe article says Archibald Cummins bought the building from Charles Smith's heirs in 1919, added to it about a year later, hired the county's first public health nurse and opened a clinic there, the building then being known as the Cummins Clinic Building.
What the source supports
The purchase, the last addition and the clinic phase.
Uncertainty
The clinic's operating dates are not stated. The nurse's name is not given.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The Cummins paragraphs.
Life and Times in the Hawthorne Building
Betsy Arnette, Clarke Monthly · 2017-11-16 (publication)
Locator: Paragraphs on Archibald Cummins
Relevant passageIn 1919, Archibald Cummins purchased the building from Charles Smith's heirs. A year or so later, Cummins built the last addition ... he hired Clarke County's first public health nurse and opened a clinic in what then became known as the Cummins Clinic Building.
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1929 to 1930Eventto the year
Archibald Cummins opens the Hawthorne Library in the building with his own books
Dated December 1929 by the Clarke Courier in 1939 and by a 2017 account, and 1930 by the Courier's own 1935 headline, which counts circulation from that January. The range holds both.
Evidence C144
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe article says Cummins established the Hawthorne Library in the building in 1929 with his own books, and that it remained the county's only public library until the books were transferred to the new high school in 1954.
What the source supports
A public library inside a downtown building for a quarter-century.
Uncertainty
The library shared the building with medical and residential uses; the article does not give its rooms or hours. Its 1929 date is not settled: the Clarke Courier's own 1935 feature is headlined "Established In 1930" and counts circulation from January 1930, while its 1939 notice says Cummins first opened the library in December 1929. This site publishes both and chooses neither.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The library paragraph.
Life and Times in the Hawthorne Building
Betsy Arnette, Clarke Monthly · 2017-11-16 (publication)
Locator: Paragraph on the library
Relevant passageestablished the "Hawthorne Library" in 1929 ... The Hawthorne Library remained Clarke County's only public library until the new high school, now Johnson-Williams Middle School, opened in 1954 and the books were transferred there.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-downtown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: complicates. The 1935 headline dates the library to 1930.
Clarke Courier, 1935-11-21, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1935-11-21 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, headline and opening paragraphs (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageAmazing Record Proves Usefulness of Hawthorne Library Established In 1930 ... The 2,000 books on the shelves cared for through the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Tappan have been loaned out more than 6 times for each book.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The 1939 notice agrees with the 2017 account on 1929, and adds the month.
Clarke Courier, 1939-02-16, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1939-02-16 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, closing paragraph of the same notice (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passagethe Hawthorne Library in Berryville that was given to Clarke County by Mr. Archibald Cummins and first opened by him in Decem[b]er 1929. Since that time the institution has loaned to the public free of charge approximately 20,000 books and magazines.
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Evidence C157
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of 21 November 1935 described the Hawthorne Library at five years old, with 2,000 books kept "through the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Tappan", more than thirteen thousand loans since January 1930, morning and afternoon opening hours, and free reading and borrowing; its headline called the library "Established In 1930".
What the source supports
The library in operation in 1935, its size, its hours and who paid for it, from the paper of the week.
Uncertainty
The paper's own dating of the library differs from its dating in 1939: this headline and the circulation count start in 1930, the 1939 notice says December 1929. Both are published here and neither is chosen.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The headline and opening paragraphs.
Clarke Courier, 1935-11-21, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1935-11-21 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, headline and opening paragraphs (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageAmazing Record Proves Usefulness of Hawthorne Library Established In 1930 ... The 2,000 books on the shelves cared for through the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Tappan have been loaned out more than 6 times for each book.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The hours paragraph.
Clarke Courier, 1935-11-21, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1935-11-21 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, library hours paragraph (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageThe Hawthorne Library hours are from 9 until 11 in the morning and from 3:30 until 5:30 in the afternoon. All books and magazines may be read in the library or borrowed free of charge.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: complicates. The same paper in 1939 dates the opening to December 1929.
Clarke Courier, 1939-02-16, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1939-02-16 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, closing paragraph of the same notice (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passagethe Hawthorne Library in Berryville that was given to Clarke County by Mr. Archibald Cummins and first opened by him in Decem[b]er 1929. Since that time the institution has loaned to the public free of charge approximately 20,000 books and magazines.
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Evidence C158
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsA notice in the Clarke Courier of 16 February 1939 placed a benefit bazaar "in the Hawthorne House in the rooms of the Library and Tappan apartments", and said the library had been given to Clarke County by Archibald Cummins and "first opened by him in December 1929", having since lent about twenty thousand books and magazines free of charge.
What the source supports
That the library and the Tappans' apartments were rooms in the same building in 1939: the overlapping uses, in one sentence, from a contemporary source.
Uncertainty
A prospective notice about a bazaar; the opening date it gives is the paper's own retrospective statement, and it differs from the 1935 headline. The apartments are not described further.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The bazaar sentence naming both the library rooms and the Tappan apartments.
Clarke Courier, 1939-02-16, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1939-02-16 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, "Bazaar Planned For Hawthorne Library" (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageit is all going to happen at a Bazaar in the Haw[t]horne House in the rooms of the Library and Tappan apartments for the benefit of the Hawthorne Library to secure the services of a Librarian.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The paragraph on Cummins and December 1929.
Clarke Courier, 1939-02-16, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1939-02-16 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, closing paragraph of the same notice (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passagethe Hawthorne Library in Berryville that was given to Clarke County by Mr. Archibald Cummins and first opened by him in Decem[b]er 1929. Since that time the institution has loaned to the public free of charge approximately 20,000 books and magazines.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: complicates. The 1935 headline dating the library to 1930.
Clarke Courier, 1935-11-21, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1935-11-21 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, headline and opening paragraphs (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageAmazing Record Proves Usefulness of Hawthorne Library Established In 1930 ... The 2,000 books on the shelves cared for through the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Tappan have been loaned out more than 6 times for each book.
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1954Eventto the year
The library's books move to the new high school
The end of the library in the building, by the 2017 account.
Evidence C144
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe article says Cummins established the Hawthorne Library in the building in 1929 with his own books, and that it remained the county's only public library until the books were transferred to the new high school in 1954.
What the source supports
A public library inside a downtown building for a quarter-century.
Uncertainty
The library shared the building with medical and residential uses; the article does not give its rooms or hours. Its 1929 date is not settled: the Clarke Courier's own 1935 feature is headlined "Established In 1930" and counts circulation from January 1930, while its 1939 notice says Cummins first opened the library in December 1929. This site publishes both and chooses neither.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The library paragraph.
Life and Times in the Hawthorne Building
Betsy Arnette, Clarke Monthly · 2017-11-16 (publication)
Locator: Paragraph on the library
Relevant passageestablished the "Hawthorne Library" in 1929 ... The Hawthorne Library remained Clarke County's only public library until the new high school, now Johnson-Williams Middle School, opened in 1954 and the books were transferred there.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-downtown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: complicates. The 1935 headline dates the library to 1930.
Clarke Courier, 1935-11-21, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1935-11-21 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, headline and opening paragraphs (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageAmazing Record Proves Usefulness of Hawthorne Library Established In 1930 ... The 2,000 books on the shelves cared for through the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Tappan have been loaned out more than 6 times for each book.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The 1939 notice agrees with the 2017 account on 1929, and adds the month.
Clarke Courier, 1939-02-16, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1939-02-16 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, closing paragraph of the same notice (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passagethe Hawthorne Library in Berryville that was given to Clarke County by Mr. Archibald Cummins and first opened by him in Decem[b]er 1929. Since that time the institution has loaned to the public free of charge approximately 20,000 books and magazines.
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2006Eventto the year
The Yorks sell the Hawthorne building to Melinda Kramer, who renovates it
Sold to Melinda Kramer and extensively renovated, by the 2017 account.
Evidence C146
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe article says Dr. Robert York joined Dr. Tappan's practice in the building in 1953 and retired in 1994, that the Yorks sold the building to Melinda Kramer in 2006, and that after an extensive renovation it held four offices and seven apartments in November 2017.
What the source supports
The last medical practice, the 2006 sale and the building's configuration as of 2017.
Uncertainty
"Today" is November 2017; the building was then for sale. Nothing here describes it after that.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The closing paragraphs.
Life and Times in the Hawthorne Building
Betsy Arnette, Clarke Monthly · 2017-11-16 (publication)
Locator: Closing paragraphs
Relevant passageIn 1953, Dr. Robert "Bob" York joined Dr. Tappan's practice in the Hawthorne Building. ... Dr. York retired from practicing medicine in 1994 and, in 2006, the Yorks sold the Hawthorne Building to Melinda Kramer. ... Today, the Hawthorne Building contains four offices and seven apartments.
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1910Eventto the year
The passenger depot is built
Approved by the railway board in January 1910, begun on a Monday reported on March 2, and nearing completion in August, when the station agent expected to move in. No source inspected here records the day it opened or a train met there.
Evidence C147
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe 1987 nomination says a new railroad depot was built by 1910 near the industrial area on South First Street, a brick station with a hipped roof, bracketed eaves and iron grillwork over the main windows, and inventories the Norfolk and Western Railway Station, Tudor Revival, 1910, as vacant in 1987.
What the source supports
The depot's construction date and appearance, and its vacancy at survey date, from the survey.
Uncertainty
The survey locates it on South First Street; the 2024 article says Station Avenue south of Main Street, opposite the gristmill. Both are carried; neither is mapped.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The architectural analysis.
Berryville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-0012 (1987)
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 8, architectural analysis, on the railroad depot
Relevant passageBy 1910 a new railroad depot was built near the industrial area on South First Street. It is a typical early 20th-century brick station with a hipped roof and wide overhanging eaves supported by large curvilinear brackets. ... the fanciful iron grillwork covering the main windows.
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Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The inventory entry, vacant in 1987.
Berryville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-0012 (1987)
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 32, S. First Street inventory
Relevant passageNorfolk and Western Railway Station. Vacant-present use. Train Station-original use. Tudor Revival. 1910. Brick (irregular); 1 1/2 stories, 7 bays (asymmetrical); hipped, standing seam metal roof
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Evidence C148
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsA 2024 Clarke Monthly report says the first railway station, north of Main Street on First Street, handled both freight and passengers until 1910, when the Norfolk and Western built a passenger station south of Main Street on Station Avenue opposite the gristmill, the First Street station continuing as a freight station.
What the source supports
That there were two stations, and which one this record is about.
Uncertainty
A retrospective without a cited railroad record. The first station is a different building and is not profiled here.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The two-station paragraphs.
New Main Street Feature Honors R. John Hogan and Berryville History
Cathy Kuehner, Clarke Monthly · 2024-04-14 (publication)
Locator: Paragraphs on the two stations
Relevant passageThat station handled both freight and passengers until 1910. In 1910, Norfolk Southern - then Norfolk and Western - built a passenger station south of Main Street along Station Avenue, opposite the big gristmill, while the First Street station continued to receive freight.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-downtown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: contextualizes. The survey's "South First Street" placement of the 1910 depot.
Berryville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-0012 (1987)
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 8, architectural analysis, on the railroad depot
Relevant passageBy 1910 a new railroad depot was built near the industrial area on South First Street. It is a typical early 20th-century brick station with a hipped roof and wide overhanging eaves supported by large curvilinear brackets. ... the fanciful iron grillwork covering the main windows.
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Evidence C161
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsUnder the headline "New Depot Assured", the Clarke Courier of 5 January 1910 reported a railway official saying the board had passed the Berryville depot, that it was next on the list to be erected and that work would start when the spring weather opened; the article placed the station on McCormick land south of the turnpike and described steam heat, electric light and accommodation for passengers, baggage, express and freight.
What the source supports
The approval and the intended building: where it was to stand and what it was to contain.
Uncertainty
Everything after the headline is paraphrased: this page's OCR is badly degraded and only the headline is quoted. The facilities are what the company said it intended, not what was later observed, and the cost figure in the article is illegible and is not carried.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The headline, quoted; the body is paraphrased from the same column.
Clarke Courier, 1910-01-05, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1910-01-05 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, headline of the depot report; the body's OCR is too degraded to quote and is paraphrased in the claim
Relevant passageNew Depot Assured
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Evidence C162
✓ DocumentedThat it happenedThe Clarke Courier of 2 March 1910 reported that work on the new Berryville depot had started on the Monday and that a large force of men was preparing the ground for the foundations.
What the source supports
The start of construction, reported within the week by the paper of the town.
Uncertainty
The paper says "Monday morning" without a date; this site does not convert that into a calendar day. The article's projected readiness date and cost are illegible in the OCR and are not carried.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The report, in the OCR of page 1.
Clarke Courier, 1910-03-02, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1910-03-02 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, "The New Depot" (OCR, line breaks joined; ellipsis where the OCR is degraded)
Relevant passagework on the new Berryville Depot was started Monday morning ... in preparing the ground, preparatory to the laying of the [f]oundations
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Evidence C164
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsBy 27 July 1910 the Courier described the depot as rapidly nearing completion, with outside painting finished and painters at work inside, and on 10 August reported the finishing touches under way and Station Agent Macomb expecting to move in "next Sunday if everything goes well".
What the source supports
How close the building was to finished in the last weeks, and what the agent expected.
Uncertainty
A conditional expectation of moving in is not an opening. No issue confirming occupancy, a train met at the new platform or a ticket sold was recovered, so this site records no opening date for the station.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The 27 July report.
Clarke Courier, 1910-07-27, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1910-07-27 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, "Depot Nearing Completion." (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageThe new depot is rapidly nearing completeion. ... The outside painting has been finished and the painters are on the inside at work.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The 10 August report and the agent's expectation.
Clarke Courier, 1910-08-10, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1910-08-10 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, "Depot Soon to be Ready." (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageThe finishing touches are being put on the new depot and the grounds surrounding it. ... Station Agent Macomb expects to move in next Sunday if everything goes well
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1987Documentto the year
The passenger depot stands vacant
The 1987 nomination records the station standing but vacant. This dates the survey, not the last train.
Evidence C147
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe 1987 nomination says a new railroad depot was built by 1910 near the industrial area on South First Street, a brick station with a hipped roof, bracketed eaves and iron grillwork over the main windows, and inventories the Norfolk and Western Railway Station, Tudor Revival, 1910, as vacant in 1987.
What the source supports
The depot's construction date and appearance, and its vacancy at survey date, from the survey.
Uncertainty
The survey locates it on South First Street; the 2024 article says Station Avenue south of Main Street, opposite the gristmill. Both are carried; neither is mapped.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The architectural analysis.
Berryville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-0012 (1987)
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 8, architectural analysis, on the railroad depot
Relevant passageBy 1910 a new railroad depot was built near the industrial area on South First Street. It is a typical early 20th-century brick station with a hipped roof and wide overhanging eaves supported by large curvilinear brackets. ... the fanciful iron grillwork covering the main windows.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The inventory entry, vacant in 1987.
Berryville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-0012 (1987)
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 32, S. First Street inventory
Relevant passageNorfolk and Western Railway Station. Vacant-present use. Train Station-original use. Tudor Revival. 1910. Brick (irregular); 1 1/2 stories, 7 bays (asymmetrical); hipped, standing seam metal roof
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July 2, 1990Eventto the day
Norfolk Southern demolishes the passenger depot
By Norfolk Southern, after two years of talks about a visitors' center, as the 2024 report tells it.
Evidence C149
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe same report says the Norfolk Southern Corporation demolished the station on 2 July 1990, after two years in which the Berryville-Clarke County Chamber of Commerce had negotiated to take the building as a visitors' centre; the railroad would donate the building but not its land.
What the source supports
The demolition date and the failed reuse effort that preceded it.
Uncertainty
Stated without a cited file; no town or railroad record was inspected. The negotiation is the article's summary.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The demolition paragraph.
New Main Street Feature Honors R. John Hogan and Berryville History
Cathy Kuehner, Clarke Monthly · 2024-04-14 (publication)
Locator: Paragraph on the demolition
Relevant passagedemolished the Berryville train station on July 2, 1990 ... the Berryville-Clarke County Chamber of Commerce negotiated with the corporation for possession of the circa-1910 station to create a visitors' center. Norfolk Southern was willing to donate the brick building but not its land
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-downtown. 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
March 2024Eventto the month
A salvaged depot window guard is installed at Hogan's Alley
A salvaged iron fitting from the depot, reused as a public feature. Reuse of a part, not survival of the building.
Evidence C150
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe report says souvenir hunters took bricks and iron window guards after the demolition, that one guard ended up at Hip and Humble in the mill opposite the site, that Berryville Main Street acquired it in 2023, and that a town crew installed it at the Main Street entrance to Hogan's Alley in mid-March 2024; Virginia Main Street separately describes the guard as repaired at a local welder's school and installed at the alley's northern entrance.
What the source supports
What survives of the depot and where it is now: a salvaged fitting reused as a public-history feature, not the building.
Uncertainty
"Last year" in an April 2024 article is read as 2023. The guard's provenance between 1990 and its arrival at the shop is not documented. Two source families now describe the installation; neither dates the demolition, which still rests on the 2024 local retrospective alone.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The window-guard paragraphs.
New Main Street Feature Honors R. John Hogan and Berryville History
Cathy Kuehner, Clarke Monthly · 2024-04-14 (publication)
Locator: Paragraphs on the window guard
Relevant passagesouvenir hunters gathered bricks ... including its heavy iron window guards. ... one of the window guards ended up at Hip and Humble ... Last year, Berryville Main Street ... acquired the ... iron window guard ... In mid-March, a Town of Berryville ... crew installed an old iron window guard
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-downtown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. Virginia Main Street, December 2024, on the repaired guard at the northern entrance.
Alley Revitalization in Berryville (Virginia Main Street)
Virginia Main Street (Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development) · 2024-12-05 (publication)
Locator: Paragraph on the alley's features
Relevant passagea historic iron window guard from the former Berryville Train Depot. The window guard was repaired at a local welder's school and installed at the alley's northern entrance
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Open sourceSource family: virginia-main-street. 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
January 2010Eventto the month
The Fire House Gallery opens at 23 E. Main
Berryville Main Street's shop for local arts and crafts, with incubator space upstairs. Reported as opening on the 8th by Virginia Main Street and on the 9th by Clarke Monthly; the month is certain, the day is not.
Evidence C152
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Fire House Gallery at 23 E. Main Street opened in January 2010 and was announced in August 2019 to close on 30 September that year. Its opening day is reported two ways: Virginia Main Street, writing in November 2010, says 8 January; Clarke Monthly, writing in August 2019, says 9 January. The August 2019 report says the Town of Berryville owns "the historic, two-story former fire station building" and had rented it to Downtown Berryville Inc., which ran incubator space for start-ups.
What the source supports
The gallery's dates and the town's ownership, and the "former fire station" description the report uses.
Uncertainty
The closing date is the scheduled one, reported in advance, and no source inspected here reports the last day the gallery actually opened. The one-day difference between the two opening dates is left standing. "Former fire station" is the 2019 report's description; for dates, see the fire company's own history and its address caveat.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The opening paragraphs.
Fire House Gallery To Close
Clarke Monthly staff, Clarke Monthly · 2019-08-12 (publication)
Locator: Opening paragraphs
Relevant passageThe gallery, located at 23 E. Main St., will close on September 30. The Fire House Gallery opened on January 9, 2010 ... The Town of Berryville owns the historic, two-story former fire station building and has rented it to Downtown Berryville Inc.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-downtown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: complicates. Virginia Main Street gives 8 January 2010, a day earlier than the gallery's own organisation later gave.
Main Street Communities Bring History to Life (Virginia Main Street)
Virginia Main Street (Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development) · 2010-11-22 (publication)
Locator: Award paragraph
Relevant passageThe gallery, which opened on January 8, is housed in a restored 1930's firehouse.
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Open sourceSource family: virginia-main-street. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: contextualizes. The fire company's history, which dates a firehouse and a municipal use the gallery report does not.
History (John H. Enders Fire Company)
John H. Enders Fire Company
Locator: History page, paragraph on the East Main firehouse
Relevant passageIn 1935 a Firehouse was built on East Main Street a couple of doors up from the John H. Enders Funeral Home. It has been used as offices for The Town of Berryville and its Police Department since 1958.
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Open sourceSource family: enders-fire-company. 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
September 30, 2019Eventto the day
The Fire House Gallery's announced closing date
The date announced in August 2019; the announcement is the source, not a report of the day itself.
Evidence C152
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Fire House Gallery at 23 E. Main Street opened in January 2010 and was announced in August 2019 to close on 30 September that year. Its opening day is reported two ways: Virginia Main Street, writing in November 2010, says 8 January; Clarke Monthly, writing in August 2019, says 9 January. The August 2019 report says the Town of Berryville owns "the historic, two-story former fire station building" and had rented it to Downtown Berryville Inc., which ran incubator space for start-ups.
What the source supports
The gallery's dates and the town's ownership, and the "former fire station" description the report uses.
Uncertainty
The closing date is the scheduled one, reported in advance, and no source inspected here reports the last day the gallery actually opened. The one-day difference between the two opening dates is left standing. "Former fire station" is the 2019 report's description; for dates, see the fire company's own history and its address caveat.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The opening paragraphs.
Fire House Gallery To Close
Clarke Monthly staff, Clarke Monthly · 2019-08-12 (publication)
Locator: Opening paragraphs
Relevant passageThe gallery, located at 23 E. Main St., will close on September 30. The Fire House Gallery opened on January 9, 2010 ... The Town of Berryville owns the historic, two-story former fire station building and has rented it to Downtown Berryville Inc.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-downtown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: complicates. Virginia Main Street gives 8 January 2010, a day earlier than the gallery's own organisation later gave.
Main Street Communities Bring History to Life (Virginia Main Street)
Virginia Main Street (Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development) · 2010-11-22 (publication)
Locator: Award paragraph
Relevant passageThe gallery, which opened on January 8, is housed in a restored 1930's firehouse.
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Open sourceSource family: virginia-main-street. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: contextualizes. The fire company's history, which dates a firehouse and a municipal use the gallery report does not.
History (John H. Enders Fire Company)
John H. Enders Fire Company
Locator: History page, paragraph on the East Main firehouse
Relevant passageIn 1935 a Firehouse was built on East Main Street a couple of doors up from the John H. Enders Funeral Home. It has been used as offices for The Town of Berryville and its Police Department since 1958.
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Open sourceSource family: enders-fire-company. 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
June 11, 1931Publicationto the day
A children's tonsil and adenoid clinic is announced for the Hawthorne Building
The Courier announces a tonsil and adenoid clinic for children there on the two following days. The notice is dated; whether the clinic was held is not recorded.
Evidence C155
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of 11 June 1931 announced a clinic for the removal of tonsils and adenoids in children at the Hawthorne Building on Friday and Saturday, 12 and 13 June, with examinations beginning at nine.
What the source supports
Medical and public-health work in the building on two named days in 1931, from the paper of the week rather than a later recollection.
Uncertainty
An announcement printed the day before. It does not report that the clinic took place, name a room, or establish a standing clinic; the practitioners it names are not otherwise identified here.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The notice, in the Library of Congress OCR of page 1.
Clarke Courier, 1931-06-11, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1931-06-11 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, "TONSIL AND ADENOID CLINIC JUNE 12 AND 13" (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageA clinic for the removal of de[i]seased tonsils and adenoids of children will be held at the Hawthorne Building, Berryville, on Friday and Saturday, June 12 and 13.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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April 12, 1934Publicationto the day
The Little Shop advertises the Hawthorne Building as its headquarters
The Little Shop gives the building as its headquarters, offering suits, dresses and polo coats.
Evidence C156
✓ DocumentedThat it was soA display advertisement in the Clarke Courier of 12 April 1934 gave the Hawthorne Building, Berryville, as the headquarters of The Little Shop, offering suits, dresses and polo coats.
What the source supports
A retail business trading from the building in 1934, a use no later account of the building mentions.
Uncertainty
An advertisement attests what was advertised on one day. It establishes no lease, opening or closing, and the shop is not profiled here.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The advertisement, in the OCR of page 4.
Clarke Courier, 1934-04-12, page 4
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1934-04-12 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, display advertisement (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageSuits, Dresses, Polo Coats ... HEADQUARTERS The Little Shop HAWTHORNE BUILDING Berryville
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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November 21, 1935Publicationto the day
The Hawthorne Library turns five with 2,000 books and thirteen thousand loans
Two thousand books, thirteen thousand loans since January 1930, and hours morning and afternoon.
Evidence C157
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of 21 November 1935 described the Hawthorne Library at five years old, with 2,000 books kept "through the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Tappan", more than thirteen thousand loans since January 1930, morning and afternoon opening hours, and free reading and borrowing; its headline called the library "Established In 1930".
What the source supports
The library in operation in 1935, its size, its hours and who paid for it, from the paper of the week.
Uncertainty
The paper's own dating of the library differs from its dating in 1939: this headline and the circulation count start in 1930, the 1939 notice says December 1929. Both are published here and neither is chosen.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The headline and opening paragraphs.
Clarke Courier, 1935-11-21, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1935-11-21 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, headline and opening paragraphs (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageAmazing Record Proves Usefulness of Hawthorne Library Established In 1930 ... The 2,000 books on the shelves cared for through the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Tappan have been loaned out more than 6 times for each book.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The hours paragraph.
Clarke Courier, 1935-11-21, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1935-11-21 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, library hours paragraph (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageThe Hawthorne Library hours are from 9 until 11 in the morning and from 3:30 until 5:30 in the afternoon. All books and magazines may be read in the library or borrowed free of charge.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: complicates. The same paper in 1939 dates the opening to December 1929.
Clarke Courier, 1939-02-16, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1939-02-16 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, closing paragraph of the same notice (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passagethe Hawthorne Library in Berryville that was given to Clarke County by Mr. Archibald Cummins and first opened by him in Decem[b]er 1929. Since that time the institution has loaned to the public free of charge approximately 20,000 books and magazines.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
February 16, 1939Publicationto the day
A bazaar in the library and the Tappan apartments
One sentence puts the library and the family's apartments in the same rooms of the same house.
Evidence C158
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsA notice in the Clarke Courier of 16 February 1939 placed a benefit bazaar "in the Hawthorne House in the rooms of the Library and Tappan apartments", and said the library had been given to Clarke County by Archibald Cummins and "first opened by him in December 1929", having since lent about twenty thousand books and magazines free of charge.
What the source supports
That the library and the Tappans' apartments were rooms in the same building in 1939: the overlapping uses, in one sentence, from a contemporary source.
Uncertainty
A prospective notice about a bazaar; the opening date it gives is the paper's own retrospective statement, and it differs from the 1935 headline. The apartments are not described further.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The bazaar sentence naming both the library rooms and the Tappan apartments.
Clarke Courier, 1939-02-16, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1939-02-16 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, "Bazaar Planned For Hawthorne Library" (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageit is all going to happen at a Bazaar in the Haw[t]horne House in the rooms of the Library and Tappan apartments for the benefit of the Hawthorne Library to secure the services of a Librarian.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The paragraph on Cummins and December 1929.
Clarke Courier, 1939-02-16, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1939-02-16 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, closing paragraph of the same notice (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passagethe Hawthorne Library in Berryville that was given to Clarke County by Mr. Archibald Cummins and first opened by him in Decem[b]er 1929. Since that time the institution has loaned to the public free of charge approximately 20,000 books and magazines.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: complicates. The 1935 headline dating the library to 1930.
Clarke Courier, 1935-11-21, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1935-11-21 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, headline and opening paragraphs (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageAmazing Record Proves Usefulness of Hawthorne Library Established In 1930 ... The 2,000 books on the shelves cared for through the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Tappan have been loaned out more than 6 times for each book.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
March 27, 1947Publicationto the day
The Hawthorne Library is free to read or borrow
Weekdays three to five, Saturday evenings seven to eight, free to read or borrow.
Evidence C159
✓ DocumentedThat it was soA notice in the Clarke Courier of 27 March 1947 gave the Hawthorne Library's hours as weekdays from three to five and Saturday evenings from seven to eight, with books free to read or borrow.
What the source supports
The library still open, and still free, twelve years after the 1935 account and seven before the books moved.
Uncertainty
Two dated observations do not prove the years between them. The notice says nothing about the building's other uses.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The notice, in the OCR of page 6.
Clarke Courier, 1947-03-27, page 6
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1947-03-27 (publication)
Locator: Page 6, library notice (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageThe Hawthorne Library is open each week day from 3 to 5 p. m., and on Saturday evenings from 7 to 8. Books may be read or borrowed free of charge.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
November 3, 1909Publicationto the day
A depot promised, not yet started
The paper reports that the promised station is coming and is badly needed.
Evidence C160
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of 3 November 1909 reported private advice from railway officials that the depot promised for Berryville would not be long in starting, and said the station, "sadly needed for so long", would be one of the best on the system.
What the source supports
That a new station had been promised and had not yet begun, a year before the building existed.
Uncertainty
An expectation reported from unnamed officials. It fixes no decision and no date.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The paragraph, in the OCR of page 1.
Clarke Courier, 1909-11-03, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1909-11-03 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, railway news paragraph (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageprivate advices from officials in a position to know indicate that it will not be a great while until the new depot promised for Berryville is started. The new station here, which has been sadly needed for so long, will be one of the best on the entire system
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
January 5, 1910Publicationto the day
The board approves the depot
A railway official says the depot has passed the board and will be built when spring opens, on McCormick land south of the turnpike.
Evidence C161
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsUnder the headline "New Depot Assured", the Clarke Courier of 5 January 1910 reported a railway official saying the board had passed the Berryville depot, that it was next on the list to be erected and that work would start when the spring weather opened; the article placed the station on McCormick land south of the turnpike and described steam heat, electric light and accommodation for passengers, baggage, express and freight.
What the source supports
The approval and the intended building: where it was to stand and what it was to contain.
Uncertainty
Everything after the headline is paraphrased: this page's OCR is badly degraded and only the headline is quoted. The facilities are what the company said it intended, not what was later observed, and the cost figure in the article is illegible and is not carried.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The headline, quoted; the body is paraphrased from the same column.
Clarke Courier, 1910-01-05, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1910-01-05 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, headline of the depot report; the body's OCR is too degraded to quote and is paraphrased in the claim
Relevant passageNew Depot Assured
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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March 2, 1910Publicationto the day
Work starts on the passenger depot
The paper reports that work started on the Monday and that men are preparing the ground for foundations.
Evidence C162
✓ DocumentedThat it happenedThe Clarke Courier of 2 March 1910 reported that work on the new Berryville depot had started on the Monday and that a large force of men was preparing the ground for the foundations.
What the source supports
The start of construction, reported within the week by the paper of the town.
Uncertainty
The paper says "Monday morning" without a date; this site does not convert that into a calendar day. The article's projected readiness date and cost are illegible in the OCR and are not carried.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The report, in the OCR of page 1.
Clarke Courier, 1910-03-02, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1910-03-02 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, "The New Depot" (OCR, line breaks joined; ellipsis where the OCR is degraded)
Relevant passagework on the new Berryville Depot was started Monday morning ... in preparing the ground, preparatory to the laying of the [f]oundations
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
August 10, 1910Publicationto the day
The agent expects to move in
Finishing touches, and a conditional expectation of moving in the following Sunday. Not an opening date.
Evidence C164
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsBy 27 July 1910 the Courier described the depot as rapidly nearing completion, with outside painting finished and painters at work inside, and on 10 August reported the finishing touches under way and Station Agent Macomb expecting to move in "next Sunday if everything goes well".
What the source supports
How close the building was to finished in the last weeks, and what the agent expected.
Uncertainty
A conditional expectation of moving in is not an opening. No issue confirming occupancy, a train met at the new platform or a ticket sold was recovered, so this site records no opening date for the station.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The 27 July report.
Clarke Courier, 1910-07-27, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1910-07-27 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, "Depot Nearing Completion." (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageThe new depot is rapidly nearing completeion. ... The outside painting has been finished and the painters are on the inside at work.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The 10 August report and the agent's expectation.
Clarke Courier, 1910-08-10, page 1
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1910-08-10 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, "Depot Soon to be Ready." (OCR, line breaks joined)
Relevant passageThe finishing touches are being put on the new depot and the grounds surrounding it. ... Station Agent Macomb expects to move in next Sunday if everything goes well
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-loc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
2000Eventto the year
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center begins, by its own account
The organization dates itself to 2000. It has described the start both as a wildlife assistance hotline and as a small education effort.
Evidence C262
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soThe organization says it was established in 2000 and has grown from a wildlife assistance hotline into an 8,700 square foot facility; a Clarke Monthly feature in March 2025 described it the same way, as founded 25 years earlier and grown from a hotline into a wildlife hospital.
What the source supports
That the organization dates itself to 2000 and describes its beginning as a hotline, and that a local publication reported the same account.
Uncertainty
Both statements trace to the organization. The feature attributes its framing to the center and cites no record, so it corroborates the telling rather than the founding. No incorporation record, charter or dated document was consulted, and the date the hotline became a hospital is not established by anything read here.
Source
Document Evidence role: supports. The 2000 date, the hotline account and the facility size, in the organization's words.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center, About Us
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center
Locator: About Us, the opening paragraph
Relevant passageEstablished in 2000, the center has evolved from a wildlife assistance hotline to an advanced 8,700 sqft. facility located on the Burwell-van Lennep Foundation's conservation easement.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. Local reporting giving the same founding framing the organization gives.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Has Impact Close to Home and Far Beyond
David Lillard, Clarke Monthly · 2025-03-05 (publication)
Locator: Body, the paragraph beginning 'Since its founding'
Relevant passageSince its founding 25 years ago, BRWC has grown from a wildlife assistance hotline to the region's premier wildlife animal hospital and rehabilitation center.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-brwc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Evidence C263
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe organization describes its early work in two ways: its About page and a 2025 feature call the start a wildlife assistance hotline, and the introduction to its own 2025 annual report calls it a small education effort.
What the source supports
The two descriptions of the early work that the organization itself publishes.
Uncertainty
Neither is checked against a record, and the two are not in conflict: answering calls about wildlife and teaching people about wildlife are the kind of work a small organization does at once, and nothing read here says whether these describe one activity or two. Recorded because both are published, not because either is disputed.
Source
Document Evidence role: supports. The 2000 date, the hotline account and the facility size, in the organization's words.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center, About Us
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center
Locator: About Us, the opening paragraph
Relevant passageEstablished in 2000, the center has evolved from a wildlife assistance hotline to an advanced 8,700 sqft. facility located on the Burwell-van Lennep Foundation's conservation easement.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: complicates. The annual report's description of the early work, alongside the hotline account.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Acknowledges a Quarter of a Century of Work in Wildlife Preservation, Human Education
Roger Bianchini, Royal Examiner · 2026-04-06 (publication)
Locator: Body, quoting the annual report's introductory message
Relevant passageWhat began as a small education effort has grown into a regional center for wildlife medicine, research, education, and professional training, grounded in the understanding that the health of wildlife, people, and the environment are deeply interconnected
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: royal-examiner-brwc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
February 2001Documentto the month
The IRS issues Blue Ridge Wildlife Center's 501(c)(3) exemption
The IRS issued the 501(c)(3) exemption under EIN 54-1996991. A separate event from founding, and not a substitute for it.
Evidence C260
✓ DocumentedThat it was soBlue Ridge Wildlife Center is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization, EIN 54-1996991, with tax exemption issued February 2001 and a Boyce, Virginia locality on the register.
What the source supports
The organization's federal identity and the month its exemption was issued.
Uncertainty
Read from ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer, which is an interface onto IRS data rather than an independent observer; an error in the IRS record would appear there unchanged. An exemption date is not a founding date, and the locality on a federal register is a mailing locality, not a finding about where the work is done.
Source
Document Evidence role: supports. Federal identity, exemption month and register locality.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center - Nonprofit Explorer
ProPublica
Locator: Organization header
Relevant passageBlue Ridge Wildlife Center ... Boyce, VA ... Tax exemption issued: Feb. 2001 ... EIN: 54-1996991
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs-derived-aggregator. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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December 17, 2024Publicationto the day
An eagle arrives with a blood lead level of 49
Reported by Rocktown Now, quoting the center's own account of the patient.
Evidence C269
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soLead poisoning is a recurring reason eagles arrive: one adult admitted in December 2024 had a blood lead level of 49, and another, treated for a shoulder fracture and lead toxicity together, was announced for release at Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve on March 29, 2025. The center attributes the exposure to ammunition fragments in gut piles and unrecovered deer, and radiographs donated venison year-round.
What the source supports
That lead poisoning appears repeatedly in the published case record, and what the organization says causes it.
Uncertainty
Two cases are two cases, not a rate: nothing here establishes how much of the caseload lead accounts for. The clinical detail in both reports comes from the organization, in one case quoted from its own social media post. The mechanism it describes is its own account and was not checked against a study. The Banshee Reeks release was announced ahead of the date; nothing read here reports that it took place.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. A measured blood lead level and what the organization says lead does.
Bald eagle brought into Blue Ridge Wildlife Center
Jacquelynn Dobrin, Rocktown Now · 2024-12-17 (publication)
Locator: Body, quoting the center's social media post
Relevant passageThe underlying culprit? A blood lead level of 49. There is no “safe” level of lead to have in the body, and lead poisoning wreaks havoc internally, causing neurologic issues, seizures, delayed reaction time, organ failure, gastrointestinal issues, and even death.
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Open sourceSource family: rocktown-now. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The quantity the organization says is enough to kill an eagle.
Bald eagle brought into Blue Ridge Wildlife Center
Jacquelynn Dobrin, Rocktown Now · 2024-12-17 (publication)
Locator: Body, quoting the center's social media post
Relevant passageIt only takes a lead fragment the size of a grain of rice to poison and kill an eagle.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: rocktown-now. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. One eagle's injuries and its month of treatment.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center to Release Rehabilitated Bald Eagle at Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve
Middleburg Life · 2025-04-01 (publication)
Locator: Body
Relevant passageThe eagle was found by Officer Acosta of Loudoun County Animal Services after sustaining a right coracoid fracture (part of the shoulder) and suffering from lead toxicity. After a month of treatment, the fractured bone is well healed and the eagle is flying again.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: middleburg-life. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The exposure route the organization gives for lead.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center to Release Rehabilitated Bald Eagle at Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve
Middleburg Life · 2025-04-01 (publication)
Locator: Body
Relevant passageThe exposure comes primarily from wildlife eating fragments of ammunition in gut piles or dead deer that were previously shot but survived long enough to escape the hunter, or that the hunter left behind.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: middleburg-life. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. That donated venison is radiographed, and what has been found in it.
Bald eagle brought into Blue Ridge Wildlife Center
Jacquelynn Dobrin, Rocktown Now · 2024-12-17 (publication)
Locator: Body, quoting the center's social media post
Relevant passageThe center receives donations of venison from hunters year-round and radiograph all of it and have found that some deer shot with non-lead ammo or arrows can still have old lead shot from previous hunting attempts.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: rocktown-now. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
2024Eventto the year
Patients from 40 counties and 172 species come to Blue Ridge Wildlife Center
For 2024, the center reported patients from 40 counties across four states and the District of Columbia, representing 172 species.
Evidence C264
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soClarke Monthly reported in March 2025 that the center had served patients from 40 counties across four states and the District of Columbia in 2024, and that 172 species were patients that year. In the same account, without attaching a year, it gave a staff of 16 with 50 volunteers and a budget of about $1.5 million.
What the source supports
What the article reports, and which of its figures it ties to 2024.
Uncertainty
The article attributes these figures to the executive director rather than to any record the reporter examined, and no filing was consulted. The year label matters: the article ties the counties, the states and the species count to 2024 and states the staff, volunteer and budget figures without a year, so they are carried here as reported in March 2025 rather than assigned to 2024.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The 2024 service area, as the feature reports it.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Has Impact Close to Home and Far Beyond
David Lillard, Clarke Monthly · 2025-03-05 (publication)
Locator: Body, the paragraph beginning 'Since its founding'
Relevant passageIn 2024, the wildlife center served patients from 40 counties across four states and the District of Columbia at its home on the Burwell-van Lennep Foundation's conservation easement
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-brwc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The species count and the cause-of-injury proportion, attributed in the article to the executive director.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Has Impact Close to Home and Far Beyond
David Lillard, Clarke Monthly · 2025-03-05 (publication)
Locator: Body, the paragraph beginning 'Like nearly all'
Relevant passageThere are raptors and reptiles, Rodentia and amphibians, bunnies and bats - 172 species were patients in 2024. Ninety-nine percent of their injuries are caused by humans or domestic animals, said Bradfield. They are injured by cars, lawnmowers, weeders, and cats or dogs.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-brwc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. Staff, volunteers and budget, as the March 2025 article states them without a year.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Has Impact Close to Home and Far Beyond
David Lillard, Clarke Monthly · 2025-03-05 (publication)
Locator: The breadth of impact
Relevant passageIt takes a staff of 16 and 50 volunteers, and a budget of about $1.5 million to treat, rehabilitate, and release the animals, and to provide veterinary and rehabilitation training and education programs.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-brwc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
March 29, 2025Eventto the day
A rehabilitated eagle announced for release at Banshee Reeks
A public release was announced for this date at the Loudoun County preserve, after a month of treatment for a shoulder fracture and lead toxicity. No source read here reports whether it went ahead.
Evidence C269
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soLead poisoning is a recurring reason eagles arrive: one adult admitted in December 2024 had a blood lead level of 49, and another, treated for a shoulder fracture and lead toxicity together, was announced for release at Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve on March 29, 2025. The center attributes the exposure to ammunition fragments in gut piles and unrecovered deer, and radiographs donated venison year-round.
What the source supports
That lead poisoning appears repeatedly in the published case record, and what the organization says causes it.
Uncertainty
Two cases are two cases, not a rate: nothing here establishes how much of the caseload lead accounts for. The clinical detail in both reports comes from the organization, in one case quoted from its own social media post. The mechanism it describes is its own account and was not checked against a study. The Banshee Reeks release was announced ahead of the date; nothing read here reports that it took place.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. A measured blood lead level and what the organization says lead does.
Bald eagle brought into Blue Ridge Wildlife Center
Jacquelynn Dobrin, Rocktown Now · 2024-12-17 (publication)
Locator: Body, quoting the center's social media post
Relevant passageThe underlying culprit? A blood lead level of 49. There is no “safe” level of lead to have in the body, and lead poisoning wreaks havoc internally, causing neurologic issues, seizures, delayed reaction time, organ failure, gastrointestinal issues, and even death.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: rocktown-now. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The quantity the organization says is enough to kill an eagle.
Bald eagle brought into Blue Ridge Wildlife Center
Jacquelynn Dobrin, Rocktown Now · 2024-12-17 (publication)
Locator: Body, quoting the center's social media post
Relevant passageIt only takes a lead fragment the size of a grain of rice to poison and kill an eagle.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: rocktown-now. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. One eagle's injuries and its month of treatment.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center to Release Rehabilitated Bald Eagle at Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve
Middleburg Life · 2025-04-01 (publication)
Locator: Body
Relevant passageThe eagle was found by Officer Acosta of Loudoun County Animal Services after sustaining a right coracoid fracture (part of the shoulder) and suffering from lead toxicity. After a month of treatment, the fractured bone is well healed and the eagle is flying again.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: middleburg-life. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The exposure route the organization gives for lead.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center to Release Rehabilitated Bald Eagle at Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve
Middleburg Life · 2025-04-01 (publication)
Locator: Body
Relevant passageThe exposure comes primarily from wildlife eating fragments of ammunition in gut piles or dead deer that were previously shot but survived long enough to escape the hunter, or that the hunter left behind.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: middleburg-life. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. That donated venison is radiographed, and what has been found in it.
Bald eagle brought into Blue Ridge Wildlife Center
Jacquelynn Dobrin, Rocktown Now · 2024-12-17 (publication)
Locator: Body, quoting the center's social media post
Relevant passageThe center receives donations of venison from hunters year-round and radiograph all of it and have found that some deer shot with non-lead ammo or arrows can still have old lead shot from previous hunting attempts.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: rocktown-now. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
2025Eventto the year
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center takes in 4,005 patients and logs 49,686 hotline calls
The organization's 2025 annual report records 4,005 patients of 166 species, 49,686 hotline calls, ten research studies and the first year-long fellowships.
Evidence C265
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soThe organization's 2025 annual report, as Royal Examiner reported it in April 2026, records 4,005 patients of 166 species, 49,686 hotline calls, ten research studies, 13 summer rehabilitation interns contributing more than 7,000 hours, and 78 programs and events reaching over 5,000 people.
What the source supports
What the organization's 2025 annual report says about its year.
Uncertainty
Every figure originates with the organization; the reporting establishes what the report says, not that anyone checked it. The annual report itself was not obtained. The organization's year-end message three months earlier gave a narrower measure for the same year, 62 educational programs reaching more than 3,500 people, against the annual report's 78 programs and events reaching over 5,000. Both are reported here with their own wording and date; the difference in what each counts is not resolved, and neither figure corrects the other.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. Patients and species for 2025, from the annual report.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Acknowledges a Quarter of a Century of Work in Wildlife Preservation, Human Education
Roger Bianchini, Royal Examiner · 2026-04-06 (publication)
Locator: Body, the five annual-report categories
Relevant passageWildlife Medicine - “Why animals arrive, We treated 4,005 patients of 166 species in 2025”
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Open sourceSource family: royal-examiner-brwc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The hotline call total for 2025.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Acknowledges a Quarter of a Century of Work in Wildlife Preservation, Human Education
Roger Bianchini, Royal Examiner · 2026-04-06 (publication)
Locator: Body, the hotline paragraph
Relevant passageThe BRWC's Annual Report notes that it received nearly 50,000, 49,686 to be precise, Hotline Calls in 2025.
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Open sourceSource family: royal-examiner-brwc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. Ten studies in 2025 and the one that reached a journal.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Acknowledges a Quarter of a Century of Work in Wildlife Preservation, Human Education
Roger Bianchini, Royal Examiner · 2026-04-06 (publication)
Locator: Body, the five annual-report categories
Relevant passagein 2025 BRWC was involved in 10 Research Studies, one of which, ‘Eastern Cottontails as hosts for ticks infected with various diseases that can be transmitted to other animals and humans’, was published in the Journal of Medical Entomology
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Open sourceSource family: royal-examiner-brwc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. Summer interns and the hours they contributed.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Acknowledges a Quarter of a Century of Work in Wildlife Preservation, Human Education
Roger Bianchini, Royal Examiner · 2026-04-06 (publication)
Locator: Body, the five annual-report categories
Relevant passageWe also welcomed 13 Summer Rehabilitation Interns.” It is reported those interns provided over 7,000 hours to the BRWC's workforce.
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Open sourceSource family: royal-examiner-brwc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. Programs, events and reach for 2025, from the annual report.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Acknowledges a Quarter of a Century of Work in Wildlife Preservation, Human Education
Roger Bianchini, Royal Examiner · 2026-04-06 (publication)
Locator: Body, the five annual-report categories
Relevant passagePublic Education - “How we prevent future harm: “In 2025 we presented 78 programs and events reaching over 5,000 people.
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Open sourceSource family: royal-examiner-brwc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Document Evidence role: complicates. The narrower education measure the organization published for 2025 in January.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Thanks the Community for an Amazing 2025
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center, published by Royal Examiner · 2026-01-05 (publication)
Locator: Body, the 2025 list
Relevant passagePresented 62 educational programs reaching more than 3,500 community members... using real patient stories to inspire stewardship, reduce preventable wildlife injuries, and deepen understanding of how people and wildlife coexist.
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Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Evidence C267
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soFor 2025 the organization published release rates measured only among patients that survived their first 24 hours of care: amphibians 82 percent, birds 58 percent, mammals 78 percent, reptiles 80 percent.
What the source supports
The release rates the organization published for 2025 and the population they are measured against.
Uncertainty
These rates exclude any animal that died in the first day, which the organization states plainly and which is why they cannot be compared with a release rate measured on all admissions. Reported figures; the underlying records were not examined.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The 2025 release rates and the survivor denominator they are measured against.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Acknowledges a Quarter of a Century of Work in Wildlife Preservation, Human Education
Roger Bianchini, Royal Examiner · 2026-04-06 (publication)
Locator: Body, the five annual-report categories
Relevant passageWildlife Rehabilitation - “How we return animals to the wild: Release Rates (for patients surviving the first 24 hours of care): Amphibians 82%; Birds 58%; Mammals 78%; Reptiles 80%.”
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: royal-examiner-brwc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Evidence C271
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soThe center is one of two wildlife veterinary teaching hospitals in Virginia, hosts one veterinary intern a year alongside a rehabilitation fellowship and paid summer internships with housing, and launched its first year-long veterinary, rehabilitation and education fellowships in 2025.
What the source supports
The shape of the professional training program and the organization's claim about its rarity in the state.
Uncertainty
The count of two teaching hospitals is the executive director's statement, repeated by the reporter; no register of Virginia teaching hospitals was consulted. The fellowship launch is from the organization's own year-end message.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The claim of two teaching hospitals in the state, and that training is part of the mission.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Has Impact Close to Home and Far Beyond
David Lillard, Clarke Monthly · 2025-03-05 (publication)
Locator: Body, the paragraph beginning 'BRWC is one of only two'
Relevant passageBRWC is one of only two wildlife veterinarian teaching hospitals in Virginia. Training future wildlife vets and rehabilitators is an integral part of the center's mission, said Bradfield.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-brwc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The veterinary internship and how it is placed.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Has Impact Close to Home and Far Beyond
David Lillard, Clarke Monthly · 2025-03-05 (publication)
Locator: Training
Relevant passageThe wildlife center hosts one veterinary intern each year. The program is designed for veterinary graduates placed by their universities to complete an annual rotation at a hospital.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-brwc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The fellowship and internship structure, and that the posts are paid and donor-funded.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Has Impact Close to Home and Far Beyond
David Lillard, Clarke Monthly · 2025-03-05 (publication)
Locator: Training
Relevant passageBRWC also hosts an annual wildlife rehabilitation fellowship offering advanced training for experienced rehabilitators, summer rehabilitation internships, and other professional training programs. These are competitive, paid positions with housing provided - funded entirely by donations.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-brwc. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Document Evidence role: supports. The first year-long fellowships, announced by the organization.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Thanks the Community for an Amazing 2025
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center, published by Royal Examiner · 2026-01-05 (publication)
Locator: Body, the 2025 list
Relevant passageLaunched our first-ever year-long veterinary, rehabilitation, and education fellowships... creating sustainable, paid training pathways that strengthen patient care today while building the next generation of wildlife professionals.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
January 2025Eventto the month
Maria Zimmerman is sworn in as the first woman president of the Enders Fire Company and Rescue Squad
Maria Zimmerman sworn in as the first woman to lead the John H. Enders Fire Company and Rescue Squad, in its 125th year.
Evidence C300
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soMaria Zimmerman was sworn in as president of the John H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad at its annual banquet in mid-January 2025, the first woman to hold the office, as the company began its 125th year.
What the source supports
When she took office, that she is the first woman to hold it, and the company's year.
Uncertainty
From one local paper. No company record, minute book or roster was consulted, and the claim of a first rests on the paper's statement rather than on any search of the company's history.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The passage the statement rests on.
Clarke Monthly, Mar 2025
Clarke Monthly · 2025-03 (publication)
Locator: page 10
Relevant passageAs the John H. Enders Fire Company & Rescue Squad begins its 125th year of serving the Clarke County community, it does so with its first-ever female president. Maria Zimmerman was sworn in during Enders' annual banquet in mid-January.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
March 2025Eventto the month
About thirty volunteers clean headstones and clear brush at Milton Valley Cemetery
About thirty people clean headstones and clear brush on a Sunday afternoon in March.
Evidence C303
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soAbout thirty volunteers cleaned headstones and cleared brush at Milton Valley Cemetery in Berryville on a Sunday afternoon in March 2025, in work organized by Jim Weinmann and David Branham of Frederick County.
What the source supports
That the work happened, roughly when, and who organized it.
Uncertainty
The paper gives no exact date, so the letter does not invent one. The volunteer count is the paper's approximation.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The passage the statement rests on.
Clarke Monthly, May 2025
Clarke Monthly · 2025-05 (publication)
Locator: page 10
Relevant passageAbout 30 volunteers gathered in Berryville's Milton Valley Cemetery on a Sunday afternoon in March to clean old headstones and clear overgrown brush.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The passage the statement rests on.
Clarke Monthly, May 2025
Clarke Monthly · 2025-05 (publication)
Locator: page 10
Relevant passageThe work was organized by Frederick County residents Jim Weinmann and David Branham
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
April 2025Publicationto the month
The Clarke County Education Foundation announces $85,000 in anonymous gifts to the schools
The Clarke County Education Foundation announces $85,000 in anonymous gifts creating a studio arts fund and an International Baccalaureate fund.
Evidence C304
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soThe Clarke County Education Foundation announced in April 2025 that anonymous gifts totaling $85,000 had created two funds, one for studio arts and one for the International Baccalaureate program at Clarke County High School.
What the source supports
The gift total and what the two funds are for.
Uncertainty
Reported, not audited. No filing or fund agreement was consulted, and the donors are not identified in the source.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The passage the statement rests on.
Clarke Monthly, Apr 2025
Clarke Monthly · 2025-04 (publication)
Locator: page 9
Relevant passageThanks to generous anonymous gifts totaling $85,000, these funds will provide sustainable support for both studio arts education and the internationally recognized International Baccalaureate
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
June 21, 2025Eventto the day
The fourth Juneteenth Celebration is scheduled
Announced for the Ruritan Fairgrounds, noon to seven, free. No source read here reports the day itself.
Evidence C308
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soClarke County's fourth annual Juneteenth Celebration was scheduled for noon to 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 21, 2025, at the Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds, free and open to the public.
What the source supports
The event, its hour, its place and its cost.
Uncertainty
Announced in the June issue. No source read here reports the day itself.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The passage the statement rests on.
Clarke Monthly, Jun 2025
Clarke Monthly · 2025-06 (publication)
Locator: page 10
Relevant passageClarke County's fourth annual “Juneteenth Celebration” is from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at the Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds in Berryville.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
August 10, 2025 to August 16, 2025Eventto the day
The Clarke County Fair is scheduled for August 10–16
Published in advance as August 10 to 16, with music on the evening of the 9th.
Evidence C310
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soThe 2025 Clarke County Fair was scheduled for August 10 to 16, with music announced for the evening of August 9. The fair in its present form began in the mid-1950s, when the Ruritan Club took over a community event.
What the source supports
The dates as the August issue published them in advance, and the paper's account of the fair's origin.
Uncertainty
The dates were published in the August issue, before the fair. The origin account is the paper's own history feature and cites no record.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The passage the statement rests on.
Clarke Monthly, Aug 2025
Clarke Monthly · 2025-08 (publication)
Locator: page 4
Relevant passageThis year's fair takes place August 10–16, with music the evening of August 9.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The passage the statement rests on.
Clarke Monthly, Aug 2025
Clarke Monthly · 2025-08 (publication)
Locator: page 10
Relevant passageThe Clarke County Fair we know and love today — the one hosted by the Clarke County Ruritan Club — started in the mid-1950s when the Club officially took over the community event.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
December 2025Publicationto the month
A Blue Ridge resort is proposed
The December issue reports citizen groups raising clear cutting, water use and traffic over a proposed resort on the Blue Ridge.
Evidence C313
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soThe December 2025 issue reported growing concern over a proposed resort on the Blue Ridge, with clear cutting, water use and traffic raised by citizen groups, among them the nonprofit Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
What the source supports
What the December issue reported, and who was raising it.
Uncertainty
A dispute in progress as of that issue. Nothing here describes the proposal's terms, its standing before any authority, or what happened after December 2025.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The passage the statement rests on.
Clarke Monthly, Dec 2025
Clarke Monthly · 2025-12 (publication)
Locator: page 14
Relevant passageConcern Growing Over Proposed Resort on Blue Ridge Clear cutting, water use, traffic sited by citizen groups
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
1688Eventto the year
A proprietary boundary nobody could locate
The Northern Neck charter ran to the first heads or springs of the Potomac and the Rappahannock, and, on Hofstra's account, nobody knew where those were. Three and a quarter million acres turned on the answer.
Evidence C335
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsHofstra's account says the 1688 charter to Thomas, Lord Culpeper, inherited by the sixth Lord Fairfax, described the Northern Neck proprietary as the land between the Potomac and the Rappahannock extending to their first heads or springs, and that nobody knew where those rivers headed; he puts three and one-quarter million acres at stake in the dispute that followed.
What the source supports
That a named academic historian, on a page this project has read, describes an undefined proprietary boundary as the origin of the colony-versus-proprietary dispute over the Valley.
Uncertainty
Hofstra's account of the charter, not the charter. No grant, patent or charter text was inspected by this project, and the endnotes that would say what Hofstra relied on fall on pages that were not supplied. The territory is the Northern Neck proprietary in colonial Virginia; Clarke County did not exist until 1836.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Hofstra's own wording for the undefined boundary.
Warren R. Hofstra, A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Madison House, 1999; originally published 1986), pages 1-17
Warren R. Hofstra · 1999 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, on the Northern Neck proprietary boundary
Relevant passagethe problem was that no one knew where these rivers headed
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Open sourceSource family: hofstra-separate-place. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The acreage at stake, in his words.
Warren R. Hofstra, A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Madison House, 1999; originally published 1986), pages 1-17
Warren R. Hofstra · 1999 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, the acreage at issue between colony and proprietary
Relevant passageAt stake were three and one-quarter million acres.
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Open sourceSource family: hofstra-separate-place. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-12. How this project checks its sources
June 13, 1728Eventto the day
The colony grants 26,000 acres near the forks of the Shenandoah
Governor Gooch and the Council grant to Larkin and Thomas Chew, with a further 240,000 acres inside three years. Hofstra's date and figures.
Evidence C336
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsHofstra's account dates a grant of 26,000 acres by Governor William Gooch and the Council to Larkin and Thomas Chew, near the forks of the Shenandoah, to June 13, 1728, with a further 240,000 acres granted within three years.
What the source supports
A dated colony grant at the start of the settlement policy Hofstra describes.
Uncertainty
The date and acreages are Hofstra's, attached to his note 5, and the note text was not among the supplied pages. No land office record was inspected. The grant is in Frederick County territory, a century before Clarke existed.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Page and note anchor for the 1728-1731 colony grants. Recorded as a locator because the evidence map preserves the figures and the page, not a verbatim sentence.
Warren R. Hofstra, A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Madison House, 1999; originally published 1986), pages 1-17
Warren R. Hofstra · 1999 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, note 5, the 1728-1731 colony grants
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September 22, 1730 to September 23, 1730Eventto the day
Robert Carter grants the proprietary's Valley land to his own family
More than 50,000 acres to sons and grandsons, and more than 11,000 to his son-in-law Mann Page the next day.
Evidence C337
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsHofstra's account says that on September 22, 1730 Robert Carter, as Lord Fairfax's agent, granted more than 50,000 acres to his own sons and grandsons, and more than 11,000 acres to his son-in-law Mann Page the following day.
What the source supports
A dated proprietary grant, to the agent's own family, that Hofstra sets against the colony's grants to settlers.
Uncertainty
Hofstra's figures and dates, from a page this project has read; no deed or patent was inspected and the supporting note was not supplied. Nothing here establishes the boundaries of any tract.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Page anchor for Carter's grants to his family. Locator only, for the same reason.
Warren R. Hofstra, A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Madison House, 1999; originally published 1986), pages 1-17
Warren R. Hofstra · 1999 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, Carter's grants to his own family
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1734Eventto the year
Fairfax formalizes two settlement policies at once
On Hofstra's account the sixth Lord Fairfax arrives and makes permanent the split pattern the colony and the proprietary had already set up: settlers to the west, idle family land to the east.
Evidence C339
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsHofstra's account says Lord Fairfax, arriving in 1734, formalized the dual pattern of settlement Gooch and Carter had set up.
What the source supports
That the two-regime pattern was, on Hofstra's account, settled policy rather than a transitional accident.
Uncertainty
Hofstra's wording, attached to his note 8, whose text was not supplied. What formalization consisted of is not stated on any page this project has read.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Hofstra's verb for what Fairfax did in 1734.
Warren R. Hofstra, A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Madison House, 1999; originally published 1986), pages 1-17
Warren R. Hofstra · 1999 (publication)
Locator: Page 5, note 8, Fairfax's arrival in 1734
Relevant passageformalized the dual pattern of settlement Gooch and Carter had set up
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Evidence C338
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsHofstra contrasts the two granting regimes directly: the colony required one family settled per thousand acres and recruited small farmers from Europe and the middle colonies, while Carter, he writes, imposed no settlement requirements on his heirs and made it easy for them to keep their land idle by rarely collecting quitrents.
What the source supports
The mechanism Hofstra offers for the later difference between the two halves of Frederick County: two land offices operating on opposite instructions.
Uncertainty
This is Hofstra's explanation, on pages 3 to 5, and it is the argument of a historian rather than a document. The quitrent practice, the settlement conditions and the recruitment are his characterizations; no estate paper, rent roll or land office record was inspected here.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Carter's side of the contrast, quoted.
Warren R. Hofstra, A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Madison House, 1999; originally published 1986), pages 1-17
Warren R. Hofstra · 1999 (publication)
Locator: Page 5, Carter's terms to his heirs
Relevant passageHe imposed no settlement requirements on his heirs and made it easy for them to keep their land idle by rarely collecting quitrents
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Open sourceSource family: hofstra-separate-place. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The colony's side, and the effect Hofstra draws from it.
Warren R. Hofstra, A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Madison House, 1999; originally published 1986), pages 1-17
Warren R. Hofstra · 1999 (publication)
Locator: Page 5, the effect of the colony's policy
Relevant passageIn this way Gooch's policies worked to ensure that where the colony controlled the Valley it would be peopled rapidly by non-Virginians of diverse religious and national backgrounds.
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1740Eventto the year
The Carter grant is divided among eight heirs
50,212 acres into eight tracts of 3,528 to 8,365 acres, by Hofstra's figures.
Evidence C340
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsHofstra's account says eight heirs divided Robert Carter's 50,212 acres into eight tracts of between 3,528 and 8,365 acres in 1740, and that Mann Page's tract was sold to Ralph Wormeley in 1748.
What the source supports
Two dated steps by which the Carter grant passed into the hands that held it through the rest of the century.
Uncertainty
Hofstra's figures, from page 9. No deed, will or partition record was inspected, and no tract is located on the ground here.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Page anchor for the 1740 partition and the 1748 sale.
Warren R. Hofstra, A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Madison House, 1999; originally published 1986), pages 1-17
Warren R. Hofstra · 1999 (publication)
Locator: Page 9, the division of the Carter lands and their later sale
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1748Eventto the year
Mann Page's tract passes to Ralph Wormeley
One of the eight tracts changes hands, still inside the same circle of Tidewater families.
Evidence C340
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsHofstra's account says eight heirs divided Robert Carter's 50,212 acres into eight tracts of between 3,528 and 8,365 acres in 1740, and that Mann Page's tract was sold to Ralph Wormeley in 1748.
What the source supports
Two dated steps by which the Carter grant passed into the hands that held it through the rest of the century.
Uncertainty
Hofstra's figures, from page 9. No deed, will or partition record was inspected, and no tract is located on the ground here.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Page anchor for the 1740 partition and the 1748 sale.
Warren R. Hofstra, A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Madison House, 1999; originally published 1986), pages 1-17
Warren R. Hofstra · 1999 (publication)
Locator: Page 9, the division of the Carter lands and their later sale
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1750 to 1755Eventto the year
West of the Opequon is taken up; east of it lies deserted
When Fairfax opens his Valley land office in the early 1750s, little limestone land west of the Opequon is left to settle, while the land to the east lies practically deserted. Hofstra's sentence, and the line the project had been looking for.
Evidence C341
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsHofstra places the settlement line at the Opequon: when Fairfax opened his Valley land office in the early 1750s, he writes, little limestone land west of the Opequon remained to be settled, but to the east the land lay practically deserted.
What the source supports
That the east-west line this project had previously found only in later local writing is Hofstra's, stated in his own words about settlement and landholding.
Uncertainty
A settlement and landholding line, not an ethnic or cultural one. Neither Tuckahoe nor Cohee appears on any of the thirteen supplied pages, and this claim must not be read as putting that vocabulary at the Opequon. Hofstra’s terms are west Frederick and east Frederick. "Practically deserted" is Hofstra's characterization of how little eastern land had been taken up under the proprietary's terms. It is a statement about landholding and settlement, not a census: nothing here establishes who was or was not living east of the Opequon. No land office record, survey or patent was inspected by this project, and the note attached to this passage was not supplied.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The Opequon sentence, which is the finding the project had been waiting for.
Warren R. Hofstra, A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Madison House, 1999; originally published 1986), pages 1-17
Warren R. Hofstra · 1999 (publication)
Locator: Page 9, the land on either side of the Opequon in the early 1750s
Relevant passagelittle limestone land west of the Opequon remained to be settled. But to the east the land lay practically deserted.
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1770 to 1789Eventto the year
The quarter comes to east Frederick
Robert Carter, John Page, Nathaniel Burwell and Hugh Nelson operate quarters in the Valley through the 1770s and 1780s, bringing tobacco, slavery, overseers and commercial agriculture with them.
Evidence C342
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsHofstra writes that Robert Carter, John Page, Nathaniel Burwell and Hugh Nelson all operated quarters in the Valley during the 1770s and 1780s, and that through them they introduced to east Frederick such Tidewater characteristics as tobacco, slavery, overseers and large-scale commercial agriculture.
What the source supports
The named mechanism by which slavery and plantation agriculture came to the part of Frederick County that later became Clarke.
Uncertainty
Hofstra's sentence, on page 11. The supporting notes 19 to 24 fall on supplied pages by number but their text was not supplied, so what he relied on is not known here. No census page, tax list or estate record was inspected by this project.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The quarters sentence: who operated them and when.
Warren R. Hofstra, A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Madison House, 1999; originally published 1986), pages 1-17
Warren R. Hofstra · 1999 (publication)
Locator: Page 11, the quarters in east Frederick, first sentence
Relevant passageRobert Carter, John Page, Nathaniel Burwell, and Hugh Nelson all operated quarters in the Valley during the 1770s and 1780s.
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Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The second half of the same passage, split from the first because the whole ran to 307 characters and the declared-delta controls cap a quotation from an in-copyright source at 300. Split at the sentence break rather than trimmed, so neither half is a shortened quotation.
Warren R. Hofstra, A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Madison House, 1999; originally published 1986), pages 1-17
Warren R. Hofstra · 1999 (publication)
Locator: Page 11, the quarters in east Frederick, second sentence
Relevant passageThrough them they introduced to the Valley, and specifically to east Frederick, such Tidewater characteristics as tobacco, slavery, overseers, and large-scale commercial agriculture.
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1789Eventto the year
Old Chapel is reorganized as the Episcopal church
It comes to dominate religious life east of the Opequon, on Hofstra's account, putting the institutional line where the settlement line already was.
Evidence C343
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsHofstra's account says Old Chapel, reorganized in 1789 as the Episcopal church, came to dominate all religious life east of the Opequon.
What the source supports
That the east-west difference Hofstra describes was institutional as well as economic, and that he draws the religious line at the same place as the settlement line.
Uncertainty
Hofstra's characterization, from page 12. No parish register, vestry book or church record was inspected. Nothing here establishes attendance, membership or the fate of other congregations.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Old Chapel and the same line.
Warren R. Hofstra, A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Madison House, 1999; originally published 1986), pages 1-17
Warren R. Hofstra · 1999 (publication)
Locator: Page 12, Old Chapel after its 1789 reorganization
Relevant passagecame to dominate all religious life east of the Opequon
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1817Publicationto the year
Paulding prints Tuckahoe and Cohee, and draws the line at the Blue Ridge
Writing of an 1816 excursion, a visiting author records the two words, says he cannot trace where they came from, and places the divide at the mountain rather than at the Opequon.
Evidence C344
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsJames Kirke Paulding, writing of an 1816 excursion, recorded that the people west of the Blue Ridge called those east of the mountain Tuckahoes and their country Old Virginia, while calling themselves Cohees and their country New Virginia, and said plainly that he could not trace the origin of the phrases.
What the source supports
The earliest contemporary attestation this project holds for the Tuckahoe and Cohee vocabulary, and the line it was drawn at, which is the Blue Ridge.
Uncertainty
A visiting writer's report of what he understood people to call themselves, and he disclaims knowing where the words came from. He draws the line at the Blue Ridge, not at the Opequon, and he is not writing about Frederick County. Nothing here shows either word in local use in the territory that became Clarke.
Source
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. Paulding's own sentences, including his disclaimer about the origin of the words.
James Kirke Paulding, Letters from the South, Written During an Excursion in the Summer of 1816 (New York, 1817), volume 1
James Kirke Paulding · 1817 (publication)
Locator: Volume 1, pages 112-113, on the Blue Ridge as a divide
Relevant passageThe people of whom I am now writing, call those east of the mountain Tuckahoes, and their country Old Virginia. They themselves are the Cohees, and their country New Virginia. The origin of these Indian phrases, I am not able to trace.
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Open sourceSource family: paulding-letters. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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December 30, 1833Eventto the day
A petition to divide Frederick County reaches the House of Delegates
Mr. Gallaher presents it on December 30, 1833, as the Winchester Virginia Republican reported a fortnight later. More than two years before the county was created.
Evidence C345
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Winchester Virginia Republican of January 11, 1834 reported the Virginia House of Delegates proceedings of Monday, December 30, at which Mr. Gallaher presented a petition for the division of Frederick county.
What the source supports
That a petition to divide Frederick County was before the House of Delegates on December 30, 1833, more than two years before the county was created.
Uncertainty
A newspaper report of legislative proceedings, read as Library of Congress OCR. It establishes that the paper reported the presentation; the petition itself has not been located, and nothing here gives its wording, its signatories or what it asked for.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The proceedings line naming Gallaher and the date.
Winchester Virginia Republican, Winchester, Va., 11 January 1834, page 2
Winchester Virginia Republican · 1834-01-11 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, House of Delegates proceedings for Monday, December 30
Relevant passageMonday, Dec. 30. Mr. Gallaher presented a petition for the division of Frederick county.
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March 29, 1834Publicationto the day
The division is argued in print, and the taunts of poverty are attested
Three signed pieces on one page before an election: a prospective Battletown county, a delegate to be lost with it, a writer signing himself Cohee, and an opponent who declines to repeat what the wealthy along the Shenandoah had been saying about their neighbours.
Evidence C346
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Winchester Virginia Republican of March 29, 1834 carried signed pieces arguing the division, printed immediately before an election. One opponent declined to repeat the taunts of poverty thrown out against the inhabitants of this district by their wealthy brethren along the Shenandoah; another, signing OLD FREDERICK, wrote of lopping off Battletown county and losing a delegate with it; and a third attacked a writer who had signed himself Cohee in the rival Virginian, printing the word without explaining it.
What the source supports
Three things at once, in contemporary print: that a wealth antagonism between eastern and western Frederick was current enough to be alluded to rather than explained; that the prospective county was called Battletown; and that Cohee was in use as a signature in the 1834 Frederick County dispute.
Uncertainty
Advocates' pieces before an election, not neutral reporting, and read as OCR with square brackets marking normalization. The writer who mentions the taunts declines to repeat them, so their wording is not established. Cohee here is one writer's chosen signature in a political fight. That it is printed without explanation establishes that the paper did not explain it, not that its readers understood it: audience comprehension is not evidenced by an absence. Nothing on this page sorts a population into Tuckahoes and Cohees or gives the label the ethnic content later writers give it, and the piece signed Cohee appeared in the Virginian, which this project has not read. Tuckahoe does not appear on the page.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The taunts of poverty, attested by an opponent declining to repeat them.
Winchester Virginia Republican, Winchester, Va., 29 March 1834, page 2
Winchester Virginia Republican · 1834-03-29 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, unsigned piece headed FOR THE REPUBLICAN, against division
Relevant passageNor do I m[e]an to prove the correctness of his quotations from the speeches of that statesman, or diminish their force by repeating the taunts of poverty thrown out against the inhabitants of this district by their wealthy brethren a[]long the Shenandoah.
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Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. Battletown county as the prospective county's name in contemporary print.
Winchester Virginia Republican, Winchester, Va., 29 March 1834, page 2
Winchester Virginia Republican · 1834-03-29 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, piece signed OLD FREDERICK, against division
Relevant passageLop off Battletown county and she must have one of our three delegates - lop off Front[]royal and then goes another
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Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. Cohee as a pen name, used without explanation.
Winchester Virginia Republican, Winchester, Va., 29 March 1834, page 2
Winchester Virginia Republican · 1834-03-29 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, on a writer in the rival Virginian
Relevant passagean incendiary production, which appeared in the last Virginian, over the signature of 'Cohee.'
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Evidence C347
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsHofstra reads the county's separation as the outcome of a divergence laid down with the earliest settlement of the Valley, writing that it was "not simply an increase in population or just the proximity of the courthouse" that prompted the petition. That is an interpretation reaching past the practical arguments the 1834 sources record, and the chapter in which he makes it was not among the pages available to this project.
What the source supports
That the causal reading the local literature repeats is Hofstra's own, and that the pages held here state it rather than argue it.
Uncertainty
Qualified because this is a claim about an interpretation the project has only seen stated. Hofstra states it on pages 1, 2, 4 and 12, each time pointing forward to a chapter that was not supplied, so what he cites for it is unknown here. His "not simply" and "not just" say those practical considerations are insufficient on their own; they do not deny them, and nothing here establishes that his reading and the 1834 arguments are incompatible. The 1834 writers argued courthouse distance, roads, floods, representation, precedent, taxes and poor relief, which is the ground his account reaches past rather than a rebuttal of it.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Hofstra's first paragraph, which denies the sufficiency of the explanation the 1834 participants themselves gave.
Warren R. Hofstra, A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Madison House, 1999; originally published 1986), pages 1-17
Warren R. Hofstra · 1999 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, opening paragraph on why Clarke sought its own county
Relevant passageIt was not simply an increase in population or just the proximity of the courthouse that prompted the people of Clarke to petition the Virginia legislature for their own county.
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Open sourceSource family: hofstra-separate-place. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: contextualizes. The practical arguments the 1834 advocates actually made. Recorded as context rather than as a complication: they are the ground Hofstra's reading reaches past, and nothing establishes that his account and theirs are incompatible. The earlier "complicates" encoded an opposition the evidence does not support.
Winchester Virginia Republican, Winchester, Va., 29 March 1834, page 2
Winchester Virginia Republican · 1834-03-29 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, unsigned piece headed FOR THE REPUBLICAN, against division
Relevant passageNor do I m[e]an to prove the correctness of his quotations from the speeches of that statesman, or diminish their force by repeating the taunts of poverty thrown out against the inhabitants of this district by their wealthy brethren a[]long the Shenandoah.
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