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About Clarke County

Clarke County is a United States county located along the northern border of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Bordering West Virginia, Clarke County forms part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 14,783. Its county seat is the historic town of Berryville.

Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Facts

Clarke County at a glance

County seat
Berryville
Population
14,783 (2020)
Land area
178 sq mi
Founded
1836

Communities

Largest communities in Clarke County

  1. Berryville County seatpopulation 4,574
  2. Shenandoah Farmspopulation 4,135
  3. Boycepopulation 749
  4. Shenandoah Retreatpopulation 549

History

History of Clarke County

The first settlement of the Virginia Colony in the future Clarke County was in 1736 by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron who built a home, Greenway Court, on part of his 5 million acres (20,000 km2) property, near what is now the village of White Post. White Post was named for the large signpost pointing the way to Lord Fairfax's home. As it lay just west of the Blue Ridge border demarcated under Governor Spotswood at Albany in 1722, the area was claimed along with the rest of the Shenandoah Valley by the Six Nations Iroquois (who had overrun it during the later Beaver Wars in around 1672), until the Treaty of Lancaster in 1744, when it was purchased from them by Governor Gooch. Many of the early settlers of what became Clarke County were children of Tidewater planters, who settled on large land grants from Lord Fairfax.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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