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| Josephine School Community Museum |
Josephine School Community Museum and
Clarke County African American Cultural Center
303 Josephine St, Berryville, Virginia 22611
PO Box 423, Berryville, Virginia 22611
Open to researchers Sundays 1:00 p.m.‒3:00 p.m. and by appointment, 540‒955‒5512; jschool515@verizon.net
http://www.millertek.net/JSCM/
The Josephine School Community Museum and Clarke County African American Cultural Center are located at 303 Josephine Street in Berryville, Virginia 22611. Established shortly after the end of slavery, the renovated 1882 two-room schoolhouse is the repository for local black history. The collection places emphasis on the once all-black Josephine City and the education of African Americans in the county. The museum is adjacent to the historic Milton Valley Cemetery.
Collection
Among this research facility’s treasures are the following.• Surname files
• School records
• Genealogical records of some (not all) African American families in Clarke County
• Burial records from all the known African American cemeteries in Clarke County
• Lists of African American military veterans from the Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, & Vietnam War
• Display and records of Josephine City
• Map showing all plantations in Clarke Co. with the number of slaves living at each plantation as of 1860.
Early Area History
Clarke County, Va. was established in 1836. Before that it was part of Frederick County, which was carved from Orange County in 1738. Though the Tidewater region’s King Carter and sons were granted land in the 1730s in what is now Clarke County, the Carter sons and grandsons did not migrate there until the 1780s. However, some Carter slaves were sent to this area between the 1740s and 1760s. When these Planter descendants arrived after the Revolutionary War, they first came to cool off in the summer. When they found the land very fertile, many stayed because the Tidewater land was depleted and damaged from war. Carter Hall, Rosney, Long Branch, Annfield, and Chapel Hill were all plantation houses built between 1790 and 1810. Brookside was built about 1780. The Carters and their kin brought many slaves to this area.Helen Carr, 540‒592‒3902
Dorothy Davis, 304‒229‒4710
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